And speaking of my great friend, Miss Jimmy James — his latest show, Impressionism, is positively awe-inspiring. Between the songs and the glamour and the love and the belly laughs, it is a MASTERPIECE by a performer at the very top of his game. If you ever hear about him coming to your city, I BEG OF YOU…GO.
And, even though he is a hilarious writer and a brilliant, versatile performance artist — famous for expertly belting the songs of all the world’s FIERCEST divas — there was a time when he was universally recognized as the greatest impersonator of the greatest of them all. Not bad for a beautiful little boy from San Antonio with big dreams, a big voice, and an even bigger heart.
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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