{"id":1014,"date":"2010-04-09T07:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2012-02-25T12:59:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:59:40","slug":"julie-klausner-bss-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/julie-klausner-bss-330\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Klausner (BSS #330)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Klausner is most recently the author of <i>I Don&#8217;t Care About Your Band<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/julieklausner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"julieklausner\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2765\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1014-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo330.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo330.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo330.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo330.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=1014-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo330.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo330.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 46:36 &#8212; 42.7MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Dodging dubious-minded vegans.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/julieklausner.tumblr.com\/\">Julie Klausner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Terms for imposing snow, submitting a story to the <i>New York Times<\/i>&#8216;s &#8220;Modern Love&#8221; section, the rejected &#8220;Modern Love&#8221; column, writing a book without any specific disciplinary pattern, crossing off bad dates from a to-do list, traveling to meet a man in order to write about it, people contacting the writer after being written about, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/kevin-sampsell-bss-322\/\">Kevin Sampsell<\/a>, people who leave passive-aggressive notes on Facebook walls, relationship miscarriages, the Muppets, the Kermit\/Miss Piggy relationship as bromance, Mia Farrow starving herself on YouTube, human archetypes within vaudeville, Charles Grodin, having a crush on John Laroquette, decaying men, boyish hunks propped up as romantic men, the problems with youth culture, men who catalog their musical tastes vs. Klausner&#8217;s taxonomy of male types, negotiating life with behavioral cues, ridiculing people after being hurt, identifying guilt and regret, Klausner&#8217;s &#8220;first real boyfriend&#8221; and being asked to &#8220;turn down the glamor,&#8221; gender relations in comedy, chick lit, Jennifer Weiner, <i>Sex and the City<\/i>, women portrayed as &#8220;shallow shoe hookers,&#8221; being the odd one out in a male-dominated workplace, Pam vs. Dawn from <i>The Office<\/i>, <i>The Comeback<\/i>, the failure by comedy writers to give female characters enough humor and assertion, sex with crazy people, rational palpitations of the ventricles, the male body being &#8220;funny like a monkey is funny,&#8221; and women who love scrotums.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b>  I actually wanted to ask you of your keen interest in the Muppets. <\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> You know, I was very interested in this.  You have a great affinity for Miss Piggy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> But you have a problem with the Miss Piggy-Kermit wedding &#8212; particularly the line, &#8220;What better way could anything end.  Hand in hand with a friend.&#8221;  You insist that this represents Kermit&#8217;s preference for guys, or going out with the guys, instead of having a commitment.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Sort of.  Or that he, in other words, how he feels about her deep in his heart is almost like how he feels about Fozzy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Yeah, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> That she&#8217;s a friend of his more than anything else.  And that she&#8217;s not special, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> But you&#8217;ve developed an entire theory about your life based off of this.  And this caused me some confusion.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> It&#8217;s normal, right?<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Well, well, I mean, I want to just poke holes in this.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Sure.  Poke away.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> First of all, you have Miss Piggy voiced in a high-pitched tenor by Frank Oz.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Frank Oz.  The great, the great Frank Oz.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Yes.  And Kermit the Frog by Jim Henson.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> M&#8217;hmm. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Depending upon how obsessive a Muppets fan you talk to, it&#8217;s kind of a bromance thing more than a romance thing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Interesting.  Interesting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> So therefore your whole childhood theory may very well be&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> About a man in drag.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> &#8230;despoiled by what was going on underneath the Muppets.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> That&#8217;s interesting.  So let me ask you this.  Do you think of Miss Piggy as a man in drag?  Or do you think of her as a lady?<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> I think of her as a wonderfully poly-gender, polysexual queen.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> That&#8217;s a beautiful answer!<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> But I&#8217;m just wondering if this had occurred to you.  Because you&#8217;ve seen <i>The Muppet Movie<\/i> so many times.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> Oh my god.  I love the Muppets.  And I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Muppets.  And my interpretation of the relationship between Kermit and Miss Piggy is &#8212; I mean, it&#8217;s obviously cheeky.  I&#8217;m not going to go around and be like, &#8220;Children shouldn&#8217;t watch this filth!  It&#8217;s going to give them bad ideas!&#8221;  But I remember identifying with their relationship as being very &#8212; it resembled a lot of the dating experiences that I had.  Which is that I was always chasing this sort of skinny guy that was more interested in his friends and his projects and his band or his show than me.  And it&#8217;s interesting this way to think of Miss Piggy as a drag queen.  As Frank Oz.  Because drag queens are sort of hyperfeminine in that glamorous jewelry and perfume.  And fabulous performers.  And all of it.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> I&#8217;ve seen that karate chop deployed in the Castro.<\/p>\n<p><b>Klausner:<\/b> I&#8217;m sure you have.  And you know what?  I don&#8217;t even know where the target was. 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