Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

Mistophiles

On my MySpace Page I was liberated by a Jesuit Garden Gnome…

I am a little bit of everything- Musician, Artist, Student, Parent, Wife, Teacher, Health Educator, ASPO Lamaze Instructor, Writer, Editor, Publisher, Thrill-Seeker, Volunteer, Friend, Helicopter Pilot, Sister, Mentor, Traveler and Withersin Chick. I am a person with active dreams, and I am not afraid to live.

Some published works:

“34B” Three Ring Circus, Seal Press (Yes, for you curious folk, that is, in fact, my bra size)

“Ribbon” Florida Horror, Carnifex Press

“Bring It On” Hey Kids, Where’s My Backpack, Danna Talarico, iuniverse

Various articles in Withersin (M. Awren Grey) and found in other fine magazines and internet sites

List website:

www.withersin.com

www.myspace.com/mistophiles

How can we contact you?

withersin@hotmail.com

mistygersley@hotmail.com

In your own words, define Withersin.

She is my alter ego- She causes both pleasure and pain. She has also been able to make friends and keep them, and has a penchant for blunt honesty which makes most people uncomfortable, but she is beautiful, and strange.

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?

The invisible girl. I wouldn’t actually have to show up for work to be working- No one but me would know where I was. It would be amazing.

Describe your most irrational fear.

Needles, needles, needles

How about your most guilty pleasure?

I think it’s knowing that Dr. Gary Lee Glum had nothing to do with raising me, and can’t take any fatherly credit for my drive, ethics, parenting ability, success, failures, dreams, nothing-and taking GREAT pleasure in this, as I was given the gift of being raised by my whole family. I am sickened that a man can blame his “sperm donor” status on an “agreement” he reached between God and Me prior to my birth. He is brilliant but manipulative. I can be both and this sometimes scares me. But I am also brave and he is not. Interesting, this human condition-

I also really like GWAR.

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

Hansel and Gretel. I was very disturbed by the “fattening you up” ideology. It is a paradox on the human desire for flesh. She had a candy house, yet she eats little boys. It furthers my argument that vegetarianism and obesity are NOT part of our make-up. We are going against the grain. The witch always shows us our true inner self, that’s why she scares us so much.

Do you eat meat?

Everyday

What were the skies like when you were young?

Now, when visiting upstate New York, they are shrouded in grey- But when I was young, the skies were filled with wonder. One of my most cherished memories is sitting with my Bapa on the front porch and watching torrents of rain fall from the sky- seeing whips of lightening hit the earth- and listening to cracks of thunder that so soon followed. He used to tell me that was “the sound of angels bowling”- Perhaps one of the most obscure thing I have heard him say- but when I was five, that explanation felt just right, and fueled my imagination further. Big fluffy clouds were horses, and eagles, and monsters and Abraham Lincoln- The characters spoke and laughed in the wind, they whispered to the trees, fought wars and ended them… The skies were my paradise.

Name your favorite garden tool.

I enjoy using pruning sheers- But honestly, my favorite gardening tool is my hands.

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.

I am not a fan of pink. First job I worked with my Aunt and Cousin at “THE COSTUMER” in Albany, NY over the summer- It was a lot of fun. Worst job- Ice-cream scooping at Abbott’s. There was an “art” to scooping the custard. Thinking back, I’m sure now I would be much better at it, but then I was kind of inexperienced. A lot of teenaged boys and middle-aged woman were “quick scoops”- They had the hang of it I guess.

Favorite Quote.

“Art is two parts beauty and one part fear”

“Art is a lie that tells the truth” Picasso

“Fear has many eyes and it sees things underground” Cervantes

“Misty, I love you” Shane Gersley

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?

Pumpernickel. It’s brown and rye-y and quite possibly brimming with ergot.

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:

I read about a new preschool being built in Oak Park (a poverty stricken neighborhood in the heart of Los Angeles) with “innovative new educational tools” that include random blood sampling, MRI’s, brain scans and urine tests.

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