Sunday

[ceebeegee]

So last Sunday I was downtown, meeting my friend Laurie. We were going on one of those Ghost Tours of the Village. I was walking down 14th (?) Street around 2nd Ave. and I pass by a salon. Guess who I saw in the window?




The tour was not very good, BTW. The guy who did it called himself "Dr. Phil"--he was this doughy guy who dressed and looked like the Penquin, with a top hat and tails, and he walked extremely slowly between the various locations which caused *me* to be very cold. In that kind of weather, I need to move. He had this terrible, nasal, rote delivery, which is the absolute kiss of DEATH (so to speak) for any kind of historical tour--especially a ghost tour. You have to love what you're talking about, and communicate that to your audience. And in Washington Square Park, there are HUNDREDS of bodies buried beneath...it used to be a potter's field during one of the yellow fever pitbreaks. Just IMAGINE visiting here late at night..and thinking of who could be buried beneath your feet! They need actors who love history for these tours, not bland academicians. (I say this with a grain of salt, as he was pretty skimpy with the facts. He mentioned the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and I had to fill Laurie in on that event, since he didn't seem to know much.) And he kept pimping for tips--annoying.

Afterward Laurie and I went to McSorley's, one of the locations we visited. We wanted to have a beer and sat down--immediately this guy who worked there, an older Irish guy, sat down at our table and took over the conversation. I'm not kidding. He sat down and just started talking to us and from time to time he would get up to do something for the bar, and then come back. He was nice enough (and he did buy us several rounds) but I didn't really realize until after I'd left how annoyed I was. Laurie and I never really got a chance to talk bcause every time he sat down, he would take over the conversation.

Comments

alive? that's debatable.

[mollyx.livejournal.com]

Hey, we had this discussion last week with the Joan Crawford stuff.
Warn people when you do that!

[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll ask. Who's the hair model?

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Chris and Duncan's ex-roommate. (http://planga.livejournal.com/30896.html)

Here's more. (http://planga.livejournal.com/31085.html)

Chris posted on that situation throughout that November and December.

Here's her website. (http://www.jenisfamous.com/) Isn't she special?

We all hate her.

[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

Does she ever act? Perhaps I can review her sometime.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

No. Acting would require empathy and humility--it requires one to be interested in other human beings. (In addition, I can't imagine she'd be any good at it--if you looked through her gallery she has pretty much one expression, a kind of almost-sneer.) These are flaws that show up in her writing as well--Chris showed me a copy of a screen play she'd written. It was pretty terrible.

She does comedy shows but and some sort of..."spelling bee" thingie regularly? but I think that's the only kind of performance.

[planga.livejournal.com]

She has claimed to be many things over the years, including an actress while living in Los Angeles. What she really excels at, though, is trying to succeed in something, failing, and then mocking people who would take on such an idiotic pursuit.

The modeling is the best current example. At some point in her blog she said that modeling was a worthless profession full of nobodies who have nothing to offer the world.

She should shortly be writing about morons who get married, and later imbeciles who try their hand at standup comedy.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Modeling is a non-profession, certainly. I mean, it's not hard, it requires very little skill, no great learning curve--either you're photogenic or you're not. Which makes one wonder why she claims so proudly to be one, and pimps out her questionable gigs so hard.