I’m not necessarily afraid to admit that I’m a huge Bon Iver fan, but sometimes I wonder if it’s more of a guilty pleasure.

Lead singer Justin Vernon’s falsetto crooning makes for rather pretty-sounding music, the kind of stuff you’d want to listen to on a lazy Sunday as you sit in the antique chaise in your den, sipping tea while reading a Chuck Palahniuk novel … or something.

On the flip side, Vernon’s nature as an unexpectedly tall Wisconsinite (he also performs standing on a riser — go figure) who recorded his first record in a log cabin in his hometown has resulted in jabs at his somewhat excessive masculinity. A Saturday Night Live skit last year saw Justin Timberlake playing Vernon, who had just been “wandering barefoot in the woods of Wisconsin and fashioned this guitar out of a canoe” before putting everyone to sleep with “Holocene.”

Case in point: Bon Iver’s music, as great as it is, tends to be easy to poke fun at. My latest discovery regarding all this is a Tumblr page titled “Bon Iver Erotic Stories,” which seems to be a collection of (obviously fictional) journal entries by Justin Vernon’s lover as they go through life together living in the mountains, raising alpacas, tending gardens, drinking wine and, of course, writing music. Each journal entry is accompanied by a photo of Vernon, making for one of the best pieces of satire I’ve seen in a long time.

In case you’re skeptical, above is a sample from one of website’s entries, so you don’t have to commit to a decision like clicking a link.

The author intentionally refers to Vernon himself as “Bon Iver,” a common mistake that I see people make who aren’t familiar with the band, and a personal pet peeve. I’m willing to overlook it in this case because the posts themselves are just too damn funny.

So, if you’ve got time to kill, blast “Skinny Love,” cruise through a few pages of this Tumblr and have yourself a laugh.

Letter that went out today to all Pima Community College employees:

Dear colleagues:

After much thought and prayer I have decided to leave the Interim Chancellor’s position earlier than originally anticipated, which was June 30, 2013. My final day as Interim Chancellor will be Friday, April 12, 2013. I have selected this date to allow the Board of Governors the necessary time to identify a new Interim Chancellor.

It has been an honor serving in this position. Pima Community College is a wonderful, vibrant institution that will surely overcome our present difficulties. However, it has now become clear that my continued service as Interim Chancellor could be viewed as an obstacle to moving forward.

Many, many thanks for your gracious support over the past 18 months. Although it has been a challenging time, I have never lost sight of the reason we are all here: our students. I want to wish you, our talented and dedicated faculty and staff, as well as the Board of Governors, all the best. I look forward to returning to work with my Community Campus colleagues, students, and the community as their President.

Warm regards, Dr. Miles

Suzanne L. Miles, Ph.D.
Interim Chancellor

Patricia Schwabe was raised in Monterrey, Mexico and moved to the states to finish college in the early ‘90s. Schwabe, owner of both Tooley’s Café in the Lost Barrio and Peach Properties, Inc., opened a restaurant, Penca, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The restaurant is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and offers authentic Mexican dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as a full bar. Penca is located at 50 E. Broadway Blvd. For more information call 203-7681.

Where did the name Penca come from?

Penca is the rib of the agave and an agave for me is something that represents the Mexican farm and the Mexican, kind of, traditions. And we’re trying to do something very organic … rooted in the traditional Mexican culture. So for me the agave was a good thing to start with and then the Penca is the rib that comes out of the agave.

Why did you choose to open a restaurant?

I’ve had Tooley’s Café in the Lost Barrio since also the early ‘90s and my husband and I are also owners of Peach Properties and we’re involved downtown and when this space became available I just felt like there was a good opportunity to bring a different concept of Mexican food to downtown.

What do you do around the restaurant?

I just kind of try to keep an eye on everything. I help in the kitchen … I work very closely with the chef in creating the food and the recipes and I’m pretty involved with the front of the house making sure things run well. I’m probably very intimately involved with almost every area of the restaurant right now.

Has your previous experience helped prepare you to become a restaurant owner?

I hope so. I guess we’re going to discover right? As this restaurant takes off and finds its own identity. I’m hoping that experience and age and other things that we’ve done in our lives has given us some tools at least … to create this restaurant.

Have you noticed any significant differences between owning a restaurant and your previous experience?

This is just a little more involved because it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’ve never had a place that served dinner. And … I’ve never had a bar before. I’ve never had a restaurant that had a bar so I did hire a couple very experienced bartenders and I have a very talented bar manager or beverage director that has really helped create the concept of the bar. So he has really been instrumental in setting the tone for the bar.

What do you hope people get out of their experience when they visit the restaurant?

Oh my gosh, I hope they can be transported to central Mexico with the food. And I hope they can enjoy the space, the décor, the food and just the fabulous international bar that we have.

Who inspired the menu items?

Probably just my upbringing with my mother cooking and aunts cooking. And just like a deep love for traditional Mexican food.

What’s your favorite dish on the menu?

I guess that’s like asking who’s your favorite child, right? I mean there’s something different and distinct of every dish. I like the fact that we have a good selection of vegetarian dishes … I’m very proud of that

If a tourist is visiting Tucson for the first time, and they come here and they ask for a recommendation, what would you recommend?

Well I don’t know because I usually ask people ‘are you a vegetarian?’ ‘Do you like spicy food?’ ‘Do you want to try something light?’ and then I go from there right? I think we have good options for different palettes and different
appetites.

Anything else you’d like to add?

That we’re very happy to be downtown. We have great breakfast items too that I’m very proud of. In the morning, yes, probably my favorite in the morning are the chilaquiles … salda verde chilaquiles.

They just don't have anything better to do, do they?

Our dear legislature is up to it again, Tucson, with some crazy-ass laws being introduced that have nothing to do with education and the economy. No, now they are interested in making sure that the public bathroom you use matches the sex you were assigned at birth.

A proposed strike-everything amendment to SB 1432 will criminalize transsexuals and our good friends that don't have any use for that gender stuff. It's ridiculous, it's silly and yes, it's Arizona, but seriously, when do these people stop? Wingspan and other groups are trying to get the word out. The bill goes before the House Appropriations Committee tomorrow, 2 p.m.

You can read the amendment that was introduced by Rep. John Kavanagh here:

B. A PERSON COMMITS DISORDERLY CONDUCT IF THE PERSON INTENTIONALLY
22 ENTERS A PUBLIC RESTROOM, BATHROOM, SHOWER, BATH, DRESSING ROOM OR LOCKER
23 ROOM AND A SIGN INDICATES THAT THE ROOM IS FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF PERSONS
24 OF ONE SEX AND THE PERSON IS NOT LEGALLY CLASSIFIED ON THE PERSON'S BIRTH
25 CERTIFICATE AS A MEMBER OF THAT SEX.

They want you to write or call these folks today:

In a move that's sure to fuel fires similar to that of the Chick-Fil-A protests of 2012, Chipotle Mexican Restaurants have decided to pull their sponsorship of a Utah Scout-A-Rama event after admitting that their support of the event ran counter to company policy.

Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold, by way of ThinkProgress, who asked Chipotle about the policy inconsistency in the first place:

By way of follow up, we have terminated our sponsorship of this event.

As I mentioned yesterday, community support decisions like this are made in a decentralized way and this one was inconsistent with our own policy. We believed that terminating the sponsorship and remaining consistent with our policy was the right thing to do, and we have reinforced our policy with the team that makes these decisions to try to prevent similar issues in the future.

The Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America is "the largest council in the Boy Scouts of America and the leading voice within the BSA against lifting the nationwide ban on LGBT Scouts and leaders," according to ThinkProgress.

Good for Chipotle for standing by their company-wide scruples, though I have to question who thought it was a good idea to challenge those scruples in the first place—and why they went back on their original stance, which was to hold firm to their Scout-O-Rama sponorship.

• Nadia Shira Cohen/Paulo Siqueira "Motel America"

Some are sad, some are beautiful, get yourself to The New York Times' LENS to check out the amazing images from Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira's project Motel America.

From the write-up:

A young man stands in a swimming pool, eyes covered, shoulders hunched, his head slightly bowed. A child bounces from bed to bed. A dainty green cupcake with confetti sprinkles occupies a place of honor on a paper plate.

These moments are captured in family pictures, much like those taken by countless families on summer road trips, the kind they would share with friends back home. But in this case, the children pictured have no home — they are living in limbo, reduced to scraping by week to week, or day to day, in a seedy motel in Orlando, Fla.

Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira — along with their infant son, Rafa — settled into the Remington Inn motel for several weeks last year to produce “Motel America,” a multimedia project that tracked several families who ended up homeless after illness, unemployment, foreclosure and eviction. In a city where Disney’s commercial fantasy attracts thousands of families each year, they are stuck with no idea of what the future holds.

After spending months building up public support, Gov. Jan Brewer unveiled her draft legislation to extend Medicaid coverage to Arizonans below 133 percent of the federal poverty line last week.

Brewer has been pushing the expansion of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, since she delivered her State of the State address in January.

She and her allies—including most of Arizona’s hospitals, a bunch of chambers of commerce and other biz organizations such as the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, and even the Arizona Sheriffs Association—say that the expansion will bring $8 billion from the federal government to Arizona in the first four years.

To make it work, however, Arizona has to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars in matching funds over those four years—which is where a voluntary assessment on hospitals comes in.

The hospitals, with a few exceptions, are willing to pay the assessment because they know that they’ll get back a lot more in return once more of their patients have insurance.

It’s no surprise that hospitals are willing to pony up that money. As AHCCCS Director Tom Betlach explained at a recent town hall in Tucson, hospitals have seen the cost of providing care for uninsured Arizonans double since the Brewer administration froze enrollment in the program for childless adults below 100 percent of the federal poverty line in an effort to balance the state’s budget.

“And if we do nothing, then it will double again,” Betlach warned. “And that will be felt by the consumers, the carriers and the businesses in this state.”

The ad is two weeks old, so you might not want to get too excited over the prospect of picking up this "collectors 1982 Toyota Celica GT liftback" for the low price of $1400, but at very least, we can enjoy the effort these two ladies put into trying to sell this fine vehicle with a title, 150,000 miles and a working AC. They're moving, so they need to get it off their yard after all.

The good folks at Serial Grillers appear to have put us on a fairly regular schedule, as they're back outside of our offices at 3280 E. Hemisphere Loop from now 'til 2 p.m., gracing our lives with the scent of grilled meats, veggies, and cheese sandwiches.

I'll say this much for the guys at the Serial Grillers truck, by the way: I've yet to have an unsatisfying lunch so long I've been patronizing them, having sampled the cheesesteak, chicken cheesesteak, and veggie sandwiches thus far, making today burger day. I'll let you know how it is on Twitter.

Make sure to check out Serial Grillers on Facebook.

And if you happen to run a food truck and are interested in swinging by Weekly World Central, don't hesitate to give us a shout. We'd love to have you — and a monopoly on the best damn mobile food court in Southern Arizona.

Thursday, for a $5 suggested donation, you're in for some outstanding poetry and word love from the good folks at Casa Libre. Imogene Binnie will read from her new novel, Nevada, and will be joined by Sarah Gonzales, Rocket and T.C. Tolbert.

This gets going at 7 p.m. and Casa Libre is at 228 N. 4th Ave.

Here's some info from Casa Libre on Binnie and the new book:

About Nevada: Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she’d carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever.

Imogen Binnie is the author of the zines The Fact That It’s Funny Doesn’t Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. Additionally, her work has been anthologized in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, released in Fall 2012. She is currently a monthly contributor to Maximum Rocknroll and has previously written for Aorta Magazine, The Skinny and PrettyQueer.com. She writes about books at www.keepyourbridgesburning.com. Nevada is her first novel.

A belated congratulations also goes out to Tolbert, who has been amazingly prolific as of late. An anthology he's been co-editing with Tim Trace Peterson the last couple of years, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, was recently been published by Nightboat Books.