Cindy

Thanks for adding me. Hoping you'll update your blog. Did you get the ABC/Disney job? I'm always happy to meet people who mention Priscilla Queen of the Desert as a favorite. Nothing cheers me up like that movie.

Thanks for the add, Cindy!
You've done something right with GJ.
He is an absolute prince.
Thanks again!

Cindy

Thanks so much for the add ...
Would love to see you at our show
at the Hotel Cafe
June 3 at 7pm

deep peace

R&J

Thanks for the add!

yeah Gilbert, why on earth did we not see the 9 closets of fabulous clothes??? it had better be in the "bonus features" section of the DVD!!!

Thanks for the add and keep on doing what you do -- your blogs are a great read!

Loved "This American Life" last night...nice to see a lot of people still 'keep it real.'

Hi, Cindy. Thanks for befriending us. And for letting us air GJ's episode this week. Here's some info from a bulletin we just sent out. Feel free to post it, share it, send it around:

The Cameraman: Watch The Clips, Meet The Cast

This week's TV episode is called The Cameraman. There are two stories--an interview conducted by Ira and animated by Chris Ware and John Kuramoto, which you can see here on Slate.com and the story of GJ, Frank & Cindy, all of whom are in our Top Friends. Here's the episode description from our website, and below are two clips from the show (an unaired bonus clip is available at our site). Leave us a comment telling us what you thought.







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A tale of "Downtown" Cindy Brown, my mother, a woman who never wore the same outfit twice.

Once when I was about 8 years old Cindy and I went to May Company to return a fancy dress she had purchased. We were just about to get the money back when the manager appeared to check my mom's name against a list... sure enough, she was on it and suddenly the man would no longer allow the refund to take place.

The names, he then told us, were a list of KRs or "Known Returners." Basically people that had returned so many items that May Company started to keep tabs on them. I guess certain folks, he explained, "had the nerve to buy an outfit, wear it once, and then take it back the next day."

It was kind of embarrassing, everybody was staring at us, and I felt suddenly like a real deadbeat.

My mom didn't have a hard time explaining that this must be another Cindy Brown, given that it was such a common name... and her being so glamorous it wasn't long before the manager caved and acknowleged "yes... it must be someone else." We got the money back for the dress.

As we left the store my mom told me, "I guess they're on to me... better start shopping at Nordstrom's from now on."

But when Nordstrom's caught on, too, my mom was never one to give up. So her new plan was to buy her dresses, wear them one night, and then send ME in the next day to return them. This proved to be a highly effective strategy, as who would deny an 8 year old kid who's mother was "too ill" to come in hereself?

No one.