When I was in second grade, I would constantly get in trouble. Not for talking in class. Not for passing notes. Not for any of the usual misdemeanors perpetrated by second graders. I got in trouble for having a messy desk. Not the outside – the inside. And the reason my desk was always chaos…
This past weekend we were at the San Mateo Marriott for BayCon (a science fiction/fantasy convention). Last year when we were at the San Mateo Marriott, they had the whole place torn up for a major remodel, and mostly it was a misery to stay there. This year, only half of the hotel was torn…
Am I a method actor? Fuck no. I mostly do musical comedy. I contend there is no basis in reality in musical comedy. That doesn’t mean that I don’t try to make my performance “real” on some level. My very first musical was The Bashful Prince, an original musical by Robert Peeples (? My SEP…
I finished this Dikke Dame (fat lady) doll a few days ago, but I had to wait for the finishing touch – her broom. In case you are not a fan of (the book and/or the musical) Wicked, Elphaba is the first name of the Wicked Witch of the West. And you can’t have the…
When I was a kid and you had to have surgery, they knocked you out with ether. Ether is some nasty shit. My first experience was when I had to have some baby teeth surgically removed when I was about 6 years old. I remember them putting some kind of mask over my face and…
You want to know the hardest part of making my little Dikke Dame (fat lady) dolls? It’s sewing the f*cking crocheted eyes on – because I have to use a thread that won’t show. So I use clear plastic thread. This stuff is so useful, but it is a f*cking nightmare to work with. First…
Back in my high school days (lo these many many years ago), in summer we had something called the Summer Enrichment Program (SEP). SEP was kind of summer school – but made fun. For someone like me, who loved school, it was a little piece of heaven. I also loved it because they did two…
After I graduated high school, I went to a community college briefly. I went to Delta College in University City (yes that was it’s fucking name), Michigan. We referred to Delta as “Tri-High” (because it served the Tri-Cities of Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland, Michigan). I loved school, but I found college to be pointless.…
There has been some hoopla in the fatshion world about Universal Standard offering extended sizes (up to size 40) in many of their clothing options – including jeans. I have heard that Universal Standard really went all out in trying to get input for their jeans, including hiring models that could actually wear the sizes…
I moved to Los Angeles, California from Bay City, Michigan in 1978. I was not a naïve cherub. But there was a lot I was not prepared for. I moved out with a gay (now ex) friend. Our first apartment was in the Hollywood Towers (or as we referred to it the “Hollywoo Towers”). Our…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 