“Yeah, it’s real nice to see that the MD telethon has come so far in 50 years. Jerry’s still parading the little black kids out here to tap-dance for us…”
— Co-host Don Rickles (the motherfucking Viceroy of Irreverence), after a troupe of young African-American hip-hop dancers performed on the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon, 2003
(Although I would like to add…that I just spit coffee all over my monitor, and that I’ll be stepping away from the computer for a bit in order to take my own life. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves.)
About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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