The very existence of this video proves, once and for all, the indisputable truth about the MYSTICAL, MAGICAL TRANSFORMATIVE POWERS OF BREEDING. Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain was the MOST HATEFUL, MOST DISDAINFUL, MOST PUNK ROCK, NON-FILTER-CAMEL-SMOKING, BUSHMILLS WHISKEY-GUZZLING BASTARD ON THE PLANET — contemptuous of all things mainstream and middle-America. He was one of those black high-top Converse/Ramones t-shirt wearing hipsters who would flick cigs and sneer “BREEDER!” at folks pushing a stroller through Central Park. A REAL hardcore prick.
Then, three years ago, at the not so tender age of 51, Bourdain knocked up his Italian girlfriend. She delivered unto him a baby girl…who has since, of course, become the LIGHT OF HIS MOTHERFUCKING LIFE. He quit smoking cold turkey after pretty much a 40 year habit, and taught himself to slow down and really smell the “nasty bits” he was sauteing up for the worldwide audience hopelessly addicted to his travel/cooking show. To say it changed his life would be an understatement.
Want proof? Here he is — the once scornful, bitter, curmudgeonly prick — recently appearing on Nickelodeon’s Yo Gabba Gabba…all for the love of Ariane.
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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