“Movies (And Other Things)' is a series of essays designed to answer some big questions Serrano has about film. Chapters include “Is this movie better, worse or the same with The Rock in it?” and “Were the ‘Jurassic Park’ raptors just misunderstood?”
“I was on vacation in Florida and Larami was driving and wherever we were going and I just happened to pull out my phone and I saw Twitter and that was the first tweet that I saw,” Serrano said. After verifying the fundraiser and family in question were legitimate, he posted it and urged his followers to contribute. “I asked them, ‘How much do y’all need to fund the rest of the quinceañera?’ and she said six grand,” he said.
His teaching background also makes it particularly gratifying when his Twitter followers confess things like not having bought books in years or not realizing that customers could order books before they're released. “I am very much in the same camp as these people who are like, 'I’ve never pre-ordered a book before' — I never pre-ordered a book either until I wrote my first one,” he said, adding that he had never been a big reader as a child.
But another big factor as to why Serrano talks openly about the need to help others and about financial issues stems from his childhood in South San Antonio in the 1980s. “Neither of my parents graduated high school and we were all from the bad side of town — everybody’s on welfare and we had a bunch of crime,” he remembered. “When you are growing up in that, you just assume that is what your life is going to look like.”
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