tooting horns, however reluctantly

My friend and blog den-mother Viviane suggested that as my Lust Bites interview is so very big and bright, I should dedicate an entire post to it. Which I'm doing right now.

I'm not particularly good at playing show-and-tell with my achievements or my notice. I tend to want to hide my light under dumptruck. However, Alana Noel put a tremendous amount of work into interviewing me (she probably sent me around ten emails asking questions), and she took such care in putting together the interview, I wanted to bring her work to your attention. That it's about me is almost incidental.

I want to give you a brief excerpt from Alana's writing about me (which, frankly, is still a very foreign concept: that anyone would be interested in writing about me):

I don't know a lot about Chelsea Girl’s childhood. I often assume genius springs from a troubled past. I understand that's cliché. Having read Pretty Dumb Things for over a year, I’ve noted two things about the author. One, her life hasn't been easy, but it’s been busy and brave, and she's no stranger to humility. Chelsea Girl's father disappeared from her life. Her sister has schizophrenia. Chelsea Girl herself put a noose around her own neck and then checked herself into a hospital where she was treated for depression. She struggles with depression still and sees a shrink. She's filed bankruptcy. She suffers wicked insomnia. And when CG decided to earn a Master's Degree, her family and friends didn't believe she could do it. Chelsea Girl has confronted pessimism on all sides. 

The blogosphere assaults us daily with people who can't write, who can sort of write, and those who write well but don't have much to say. Few bloggers manage to transcend the personal for the universal. But writing is (should be) art. And art begins as a selfish act transformed through the process of expression to altruistic. Chelsea Girl is an artist’s voice for women: Ironic. Paradoxal. Introspective. Unapologetic. Sexy. Needy. Sad.

Here's the link to the entire, and rather extensive, interview.

Thanks, Alana. I am seriously humbled.

Comments

[nikki]

HEY LUSTIES, LOOK! We made her all shy!!! Isn't that adorable?

Seriously, it's a wild pleasure to have you on teh blog, CG. We'll gladly toot your horns, anyday...

x

[Eve]

All I can say is:

Here, here!

(picture many raised champagne glasses)

Eve

[badinfluencegirl]

oops i commented there and not here

what a wonderful interview chelsea m'girl, i'm very proud of you. not (i'm sure) that you need the pride of a stranger but you have it.

kudos and mad props and keep the wonderful ink of your brain flowing!

not to mention that you inspire me to be better!

[ell]

Congrats on the very nice write up!

[The Fury]

You are worthy of every bit of lauding, champagne glass raising and horn tooting. Surely you like to toot a horn every now and a again;-)