What I love the most about this is not the fact that this pre-school child looks exactly like said deceased actor and comedian — even though she does. In fact, she looks so much like him that I sincerely hope someone sends a copy of this picture to dead comedian’s parents — so that they can see what the grandchildren they were cheated out of knowing would’ve looked like. Goddamnit, she’s so dead-on it’s eerie.
The best part is that the photo of her, and the proud, beaming woman I assume is her adoring mother, clearly says, “proof” across the front of it…meaning that it was probably discovered by some 23 year old college student with a good eye and even better sense of humor working part time at some photography studio somewhere in the Midwest, who immediately recognized its genius, and unbeknownst to his/her employer or the smiling subjects therein, scanned it and sent it out over the interwebs — a genie unleashed from its bottle, never to be contained again.
With the way this virtual ephemera makes its way around the world with such lightning speed, I wonder just how long it will take before someone who knows this girl and her family receives the photo in a belly laughing email and forwards it to her mother with the subject line: “Ummm…I don’t really know how to tell you this, Barb…”
Ladies and gentlemen…I give you:
The Reincarnation of Chris Farley

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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.