Notes to Boys
Published on 30. December 2013
264 pages
978-1-940207-32-2 (ISBN)
Description
Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public is a mortifying memoir from bestselling author and tv/film writer Pamela Ribon. Miserably trapped in small town Texas with no invention of the internet in sight, Ribon spent countless hours of her high school years writing letters to her (often unrequited) crushes. The big question is: why did she always keep a copy for herself? Wince along with Ribon as she tries to understand exactly how she ever thought she'd win a boy's heart by writing him a letter that began: "Share with me your soul," and ends with some remarkably awkward erotica. You'll come for the incredibly bad poetry, you'll stay for the incredibly bad poetry about racism.
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Pamela Ribon is a bestselling author, TV writer, screenwriter, roller derby girl, and Wonder Killer. In addition to her novels (one of which landed her a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary under "Muffin Top" (look it up.)), Pamela continues to work in film and television, notably having written for the Emmy award-winning show Samantha Who?. Her stage productions have become international cult sensations (Call Us Crazy: The Anne Heche Monologues), and she's been a featured performer at HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival. On the Internet she's known as "Pamie," where she's been running her wildly successful website pamie.com for a very long time, long enough to have been nominated for a "Lifetime Achievement" Bloggie. Pamela lives in Los Angeles, where she writes and writes and writes.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Part One
- 19 SEPT., 1990
- The Continuing Story of Holly Hunter Boy
- Share With Me Your Soul(The Heartbreak of Homeroom Boy)
- Where Are You Going, Homeroom Boy?
- How To Smell Like Holly Hunter Boy(a recipe)
- Too Many People, Too Noisy, Too Noisy
- Stalking the Clueless
- And Then There's Super Mario Brothers Boy
- Love Means Never Having to Say Anything: Silent Skateboarder Boy
- My Year of Dicks
- Me, My Boy Drums, and You.
- How To Lose A Girl In One Day
- Dear Dorkhouse Forum
- (I'm Guessing Nobody Asked Me For This)
- I'm Only Sleeping (Or Am I?)
- [This letter was defaced by boys in class. Their notes are in bold.]
- Part Two
- I Turned Sixteen and Got Really Horny on April 15th.
- Going Down, But Not Necessarily Understanding the Mechanics of Such a Term
- Because in the Dark, You Are at Your Smallest.
- Momento
- It Gets Marginally Better
- March 1, 1992
- Time is Not Equal (When Time = Mutual Masturbation)
- Part Three
- Our Teenage Muse
- Being "Passionate"
- The Obligatory Poem About Cemetaries (But Also Racism)
- "They're Looking For You."
- Part Four
- I Never Dated Jim Morrison, But I Think I Wanted The Guy I Was Seeing To Feel Like I Thought Of Him That Way
- April 5, 1992 [I am now seventeen.]
- The Very Last Time I Ever Rode a School Bus
- Ode to a New Journal:
- I am Pretty Sure I Sent This in to at Least One College Application, Which Means I May Have Sent This to Yale.
- Who Wants Honey
- June 21, 1992
- Missing the Missing
- 7-3-92
- 7-14-92
- I Still Have All Your Marbles
- Sometimes You Just Need a Boy in a Crane Pose
- This is What I Wrote in My Journal on My Eighteenth Birthday.
- I Get Tongue-Tied
- I Swear I Recognize Your Breath
- Holly Hunter Boy Speaks
- I Just Want to Scream Hello
- How To Write To Boys
- 1 Jan 93, 1:35am
- Acknowledgments
