I wrote a story about being an ‘outsider’.

It upset people- it made them feel bad – they didn’t like going back to a time that really and truly sucked.

So I asked two of my friends who were ‘insiders’ what it was like for them ‘back then’.

It sounded good- their memories  came across  like a Nick at Night Classic Episodes Marathon with no (I’m sorry to say) Talking Horses or Martians.

Then we get around to talking about now and I heard a lot of stories about tuition costs and cars and loans and house payments and gee we took a vacation but when we got back this thing was waiting at the office…and part way through this visit to the Adult World my head started to hurt.

“Wow” I thought, “you sound like a commercial where you’re invited to ask your Doctor about this new anti-depressant”  Anyway I felt like doing just that after they got done talking.

Of course these blood rituals work both ways so we go into what I’ve been up too and I say:” My kids got good jobs and moved out, I’m writing a book, I’ve been writing short stories, my husband and I are Civil Rights Activists so we’re really busy with that and for a couple of weeks now I’ve been having a Gummy Bear Porn War going on with a Writer in California.”

I took a deep breath and dove in again “I’ve also made this really cool discovery- I’ve discovered that if I do stories about Bruce Campbell people will read them. In fact, I went back and found out that his story took more traffic then the Paris Hilton story that I did…  I think it’s because he’s truly talented.That’s about it”

So my two friends, (yes,  I was and still am friends with some “Shiny People“) looked at each other and then at me and asked-

 “So Anita, what else is going on with you?”