I just walked back here, and on the computer I found the following — an IM from my mother:
Mother: Honey, I have to run some errands, but could you please send me the information on your new book. Please. I’ll look forward to reading about it when I get back. Love you!
And the auto-response she got from me:
Auto response from Muffy: “Basically, if there isn’t somebody I want to fuck in a band, I couldn’t care less. Unless it’s such great abstract music it carries me away. Otherwise, if it’s a rock-and-roll band, there better be somebody fuckable or forget it.”
— Patti Smith
Having me for a child, I am sure she didn’t bat a gottdamned eye when that popped up on her screen.
My mother is SO FUCKING ALL-TALENT.

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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