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Monday, July 20, 2015

Stranger Than Stranger's With Candy


With a bobby-flip or a flippy-bob in her hair and a ton of narcotics in her backpack, Jerry Blank satirized the life of a 50 year old high school retread in Comedy Central's "Strangers With Candy" that was on from 1999-2001.   The concept joke of the show was that Jerry was such a mess when she was a teenager, with drugs and promiscuity, that she dropped out of school for the next thirty years.  Then, a 50 year old, Jerry Blank went back to high school to finish her high school education.  The concept was funny when you consider that Jerry was totally out of the loop when it came to her classmates.  Far too experienced sexually and with drugs to really understand where they were coming from.

Does this remind any of you of our Dear Little Laurie?

I actually met Amy Sedaris on a trip to NYC to visit a friend, she was nothing like Laurie.

The funny thing is that our Laurie still thinks she has so much in common with the 15 year old kids of today when she didn't even have anything in common with them when she was 15, and even far less now.  Someone once told me, actually it was a lot of people told me that Laurie is eerily fond of her sophomore year in high school.  I don't know why.  She didn't change at all from 8th grade until she graduated from high school.  Not much to tell.  Not very social. Not well liked.  Not a topic of any kind of kind conversations.  Creepy with women.  Homophobic and kind of wasted most of the time.

She and I living in this town again, now, under these circumstances is like a really horrible "Twilight Zone" episode where thirty years later you come back to find that nothing has changed and the reason you left in the first place is still the reason that you want to leave now.  I can hear Rod Serling in the background saying, "...you've just crossed over the City Limits into...The Twilight Zone".  It's so bad here that it's almost black and white, with a B actor playing me and Laurie still herself.  I hate it here and there is no doubt that I would leave if i could, but it's almost like my own friends are forcing me to stay.  It's as awful as before, I can't go anywhere and I can't trust anyone and now everyone has a front row seat as to what it was like then.  Laurie in her home plotting all night to hurt my family and me in my bedroom trying to figure out how to avoid it.  It's just creepy beyond my own fears.

Since Laurie and her brother's drugs couldn't do me in thirty years ago, here we are again with an audience including people that she wants to show that she can hurt me for their attention.  I can't think of a better situation for Laurie; my team handed her a second sophomore year to ruin my life...and it's lasted for eight long years.

What looks like entertainment for everyone is just another example of how little my team understands the psychology of this stalking and what Laurie wants from it.  She wants her swan song, her happy fairy tale ending (pun intended), her story to end the way she told everyone it did thirty years ago.  So I have all of you to thank for handing her the dream of a second chance to take my life for the ninth, tenth, eleventh time.
She's crazy and she's just about to lose it again!!!