a stranger strides into town

[Guest guest]

since i am new in this part of the forest, I have been cordially and

gracefull invited to post a questionnaire of introduction -- so here it be:

Name: Muffy Bolding

Email: muffybolding@...

Birthdate: 21st August

Location: Los Angeles, California

How long have you been diagnosed: Am currently in the process. It's rather a

wacky and daunting time, to say the very least. However, after 4+ years of

unexplained fevers, rashes, joint pain, general fatigue and malaise, and a

vast legion of dumbfounded doctors, I suppose that just having a name for

the bastard is a good thing. My new rheumy is a GOD among men.

What meds do you currently take: Metformin (I am also an early-stage Type 2

Diabetic)

Employment (if any): Writer for film, television, newspapers, blogs, zines,

and books.

Family Life: Husband, , and three babies: Betsy, 19, Annie, 15, and

Hunter, 12

Hobbies: I have no hobbies…only obsessions, my friends. Just a few of these

are: Collecting PEZ dispensers (I currently have around 400), traveling to

the far corners of the globe, European history, writing films, making films,

watching films, reading about films, discussing films, studying films,

writing satire, Andre Breton, Buck Henry, Catholic Kitsch, charm bracelets,

Doug Kenney, O' Donoghue, the study of human consciousness,

expatriates, Gerald and Sara , Hunter S. , libraries and

librarians, Little Edie Beale, long rambling walks, Poppins, Mel

, Modigliani, Noon Blue Apples, old Fisher-Price toys,

Rennes-le-Chateau, Benchley, Dorothy , Woollcott,

Neshobe Island, Lowell, Ted , WS Merwin, The Godfather, The

Grail Legends. The Pixies, Magdalene, The Rat Pack, The Surrealists,

The Young Ones, Bogdanovich, Wes , Truman Capote, What's Up,

Doc?, women's reproductive rights, and and Zelda.

Also, if it be any help towards getting to know my scandalous self, my

current literary bio reads as follows:

Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/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 19, 15, and 12. She is

blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but

remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted . Ms. Bolding lives

in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and

plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She has the mouth of a

Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) In between

writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of

darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she publishes the zine " Withered

Debutante. " Her recent work can also be found in the anthology, *Mamaphonic:

Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts* as well as at

*hipmama.com.*She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she

would have liked.

I am looking forward to getting to know everybody…and to learning more about

this hot, hideous little beast that has taken up residence in my body.

Best –

Muffy