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More
than you Ever Wanted to Know....about Bobbi C.
Bobbi C. grew up in a little white house, in a droll little town
in north central Texas that will remain nameless, surrounded
by gigantic sunflowers, up the hill from where her great-grandfather's
little cottage had been moved and turned into a garden shed by
an old lady named Mrs. Looney, who really and truly was, because
she kept a Viewmaster projector on her coffee table with photos
of her dead husband, all laid out in his casket on shiny white
satin. I kid you not, how could anyone make something like this
up?
Bobbi
moved to Austin and studied for five long years and earned a
slightly worthless degree in art, barely learning how to draw
a circle, wrote books and eventually moved to a nearby town that
really was Nameless, at least in the 1800's. Now it's called
Leander.
Unfortunately,
she didn't listen to her grandfather, a fine artist who painted
landscapes, when he told her to major in commercial art because
that's where the money was. No matter...she was destined to become
a playwright anyhow.
She lives
with one Husband (her last) and six cats who all have first,
middle and last names. (Because that's just the way it's done
in Texas-you can ask anyone.) She collects button-eyed dolls,
stuffed creatures and sock monkeys of a curious nature and displays
them prominently in her writing hovel where they peer down at
her from aloft and creep about when the lights go out. She has
footage from a nanny cam to prove it.
Miz C's
quite active as a cat herder, destroyer of tomato hornworms and
lurker at the local library where she scans the horizon for others
engaged in silliness. Alas, they are few and far between. In
her spare time, she munches on Moonpies and sketches portraits
of her female felines in posh frocks and pointy hats and writes
musical ditties and one-act plays that are performed surreptitiously
under cover of darkness. Unfortunately.
Her illustrious
silly work has been published in such journals as "The Sideways
Creeping Crab", the "Give Me your Eyeballs Poetry Review,"
"Poetry from Podunk," "Fool" and "Splat,
the Runaway Train". Not really. But they have been published
in The Clockwise Cat and other places, hither and yon, to and
fro, with more to come.
The artist's
motto is Embrace the Inner Silly, wear something pointy!
So now
you know.
CLICK
HERE to read about Bobbi's plays.
All images, designs
and text Copyright ©2010 by Bobbi A. Chukran
This site updated on February 9, 2010.
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