“It begins with a gay man who falls out of his mother’s womb…and lands in her high heels.”
— Leslie Jordan

And speaking of my friend, Leslie…he just rang me up to tell me that his one-man show, “Like a Dog on Linoleum”, is coming to San Diego Saturday/Sunday, November 26-27 at The North Park Theatre.
Let me tell you…unless you have seen this show, you just THINK you know what it means to belly laugh — and belly cry. It is the story of a gay man from The Old South…who, seeking fame, fortune, and acceptance, gets on a bus headed for Los Angeles, with all the money he has in the world sewn into his underwear. He finds all that — and so much more: acceptance of himself.
For those of you who know his work solely from the myriad of television shows he has done, you know NOTHING. Because I work and play with so many extraordinarily talented people, I cannot and do not toss this word around lightly, but this guy is a motherfucking genius — and a great friend. He is positively brilliant and I could not love him anymore than I do.
Read and learn — and then go see his show: Like a Dog on Linoleum
The last time he was here, we took him to lunch at Hamburger Mary’s in Hillcrest — and almost caused a goddamned riot amongst all the other delighted queens who were supping there. What a fucking ride, this life.
The Official Website of Leslie Jordan
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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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