A Mishmash Blog

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

I haven't made up my mind how I feel about this...on the one hand, what a skeez. On the other hand, a BOOK full of things that arn't true is called...a BOOK. I mean, is this really that scandalous? I make things up and write them down...but, back to the first hand, he did claim it as non-fiction and even go so far as to go all around talking about these events and visiting people in rehab and telling them to "Hold On".

I still haven't made up my mind about the book even, it did seem a little vague in places and certainly a little heroic in other places, I don't know. Maybe I thought it was gimmicky? Kinda long? And throughout reading it I kept not believing a lot of it but then taking it as true since it was stamped "NON-FICTION". (It was also stamped "Oprah's Book Club" but I took that sticker off.)

Turns out he went to Denison University which is where my parents went to school. It is also coincidentally where later my stepdad was a professor. It is ALSO where my stepdad taught young acting protege, dare I say genius? One Miss Jennifer Garner, or should I say Bennifer Redux Affleck? It actually seems that this author James Fry and Madame Alias were probably in school at the same time. I wonder if he saw her in that god awful production of Cabaret where she wore a bowl cut bleach blonde wig and "sang" her heart out as Sally Bowles. That was after the summer that she and I were roomates at Timberlake Playhouse while my families cabin was being built and she snored her heart out...though, as anyone who has shared a bed with me knows, I'm not really one to talk. Although I'm not famous am I? No, I'm certainly not.
My family disikes Jennifer Garner for two...no, three reasons...
1) She's rich and famous and we are not.
2) She never wrote back to my stepdad when he wrote to her and asked her to hlp him get one of his students into Denison.
3) Girl can't act her way out of a paper bag...though I suppose that might be my stepdads fault seeing as how he was her acting teacher.

I personally dislike her for these added reasons...
1) "What's with that monkey? It freaks me out." This was what she said in reference to my giant, seriously, giant, stuffed animal monkey Samson (Named after a gorilla in the Milwaukee zoo who had died). I was 12 people, I was allowed to still sleep with a giant monkey. Whatever, I'm 26 and I still sleep with it when I go to my moms house. That monkey is family. When Kaide had her baby shower you know what I go her? A GIANT MONKEY. And everyone was jealous, cause it was the best gift of all.
2) "You don't know what it's like to have boobs this big, and they get all swollen from my birth control. Some day you'll understand." Too much info Jen.

I have a picture of her as Fruma Sarah in TLP's 1992 production of Fiddler on the Roof where my mom played Golde (and kicked Rosie O'Donnells ass) and Tate was a bottle dancer. I operated the spotlight. It was a real family affair. Tate never dropped that bottle once, I have to mention that because he's getting mad and says I always rip on him on this blog. So, here it is officially...Tate is very talented at dancing with a bottle on his head. Also so is Brannen, because Brannen was a bottle dancer in high school. Yeah, that's right, "West Virginia High School presents Fiddler On The Roof." Not much different than TLP I guess, I mean, we were a bunch of white folks in a cornfield, what did we know about Hacidic life? However, it did get ugly once during Annie Get Your Gun when the director announced, "Anyone with Brown Hair will be one of the Indians for the Indian dance." Yeah, that's right, Tate was graduated from Bottle dancer to lead Raindancer, and there I was in all my brown haired glory in the back, with Erik I believe...our pale English skin glowing like radioactive alabaster, but brown hair = Indians, and don't you forget it.

What you've learned from this blog entry:

-Writers make things up.
- Jennifer Garner Affleck doesn't like giant monkeys, but snores like one.
- Tate is a good dancer as far as dancing the dances of other cultures.
-There is video footage as well as photographic evidence...that I used to sing and dance in musicals. And there is even a place you can go online and see me as an unhappy rabbit standing next to Tate dressed as a deer. But you shall never know where that place is my friends. Never.