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Interviews

One Week As A Tax Return Associate Working Late At Tanya’s Income Tax Solutions—Vol. 2: The Phone Calls

August 30, 2010

Monday: Hey Tanya, I might— No, sure. That’s fine. Oh, Darren didn’t finish the Gobsons’ returns? Oh. Okay. I didn’t realize that. I’ll do it. Sure. Tuesday: Yes, great. But with the wide noodles. Chicken. Four stars, or medium, or whatever system you guys use. Yeah. Just make it kind of hot. Wednesday: Yeah but— [...]

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The Murky Fringe Interviews Your Work Uniform

August 16, 2010

The Murky Fringe: Is that, what? Starch? What does that? Your Work Uniform: Yeah, starch. This is an unnatural stiffness for me. Starch does it. You’re really getting right to it, eh? MF: How do you feel about that. About the starch. Tell me about the starch. YWU: [Looking around] How in the cotton-blasting hell [...]

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Parallel Oscar Universe: 1986

July 9, 2010

Best Picture: Witness Nominees: Out of Africa, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi’s Honor, The Color Purple Excerpt from Director’s Acceptance Speech: Peter Weir: “And, of course, I’d like to thank the Amish for welcoming us all into their closed community. That couldn’t have been easy. And if any of you had TVs, I think [...]

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The Murky Fringe Interviews Mike Tyson

July 6, 2010

Murky Fringe: You became heavyweight champion of the world at what, eighteen? Mike Tyson: I believe that’s correct, yes. MF: Actually, it’s not. You were twenty when you won the WBC title. Which still made you the youngest heavyweight champion of all time. MT: Are you trying to trick and humiliate me with your skullduggerous [...]

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Siamese Twins Discuss Their Summer Reading Schedule of Middlemarch for AP English

June 30, 2010

Steven: I thought we’d do three chapters a day until we finish. Stewart: How many chapters are there? Steven: There are eight books. Stewart: Eight sections? Steven: Yes. Stewart: Why can’t you just say sections? Steven: Because she calls them books. Stewart: Who does? Steven: George Eliot. Stewart: Why did you call George Eliot she? [...]

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The Murky Fringe Interviews Britney Spears’ Vagina

June 17, 2010

Murky Fringe: You’ve gotten a good bit of media coverage in the last few years. Britney Spears’ Vagina: Tell me about it. Good Christ, I can hardly see for all the camera flashes whenever the car door opens. MF: To be fair, though, it’s not like you’re hiding, are you? BSV:You think I get consulted [...]

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The MF Interviews The Apostrophe In “Gridlock’d”

May 31, 2010

The Murky Fringe: What the fuck are you doing there? Apostrophe In Gridlock’d: I have no idea. MF: Seriously, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Where’s the “e”? How in the world did you get this job and e didn’t? AIGL’d: I told you, I don’t know what I’m doing there. I didn’t fucking place myself there. [...]

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Interview with The Murky Fringe Editors [Part 2]

April 8, 2010

Cassie Deever and Rachel Tate have been neck deep in The Murky Fringe for several years now, sending strange emails back and forth to one another since their early college years. They sent riffs and thoughts and small bits of fiction or poetry with the sole intention of making the other laugh. Mostly they were successful. [...]

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Interview with The Murky Fringe Editors [Part 1]

April 7, 2010

Cassie Deever and Rachel Tate have been neck deep in The Murky Fringe for several years now, sending strange emails back and forth to one another since their early college years. They sent riffs and thoughts and small bits of fiction or poetry with the sole intention of making the other laugh. Mostly they were successful. [...]

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The MF Interviews a Gypsy Baby

March 19, 2010

The Murky Fringe: You’ve been tossed how many times? Gypsy Baby: In the 100s somewhere. MF: Tossed at strangers. GB: Yes, tourists mostly. At train stations. MF: Tossed because when someone, some tourist catches you, he or she is stunned and therefore easier to rob. GB: Yes. MF: And then in the confusion, someone–another Gypsy–will [...]

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The MF Interviews Claude Oscar Monet

January 14, 2010

CONTRIBUTED BY LAURA ROBB (Hartsdale, NY) The Murky Fringe: You were a painter, but you developed cataracts. Isn’t that poetic irony? Claude Monet: I’m not sure. Is there even such a thing as poetic irony? MF: Touche. Let’s talk names. Your other given name is Oscar. It would be cliche to ask if you’re an [...]

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The MF Interviews the Butter from Last Tango in Paris

January 12, 2010

The Murky Fringe: Let’s start at the beginning. How did you land this role? Butter: I had a very good friend at the time who was friends with Alberto Grimaldi, the producer. Grimaldi mentioned it over drinks and the next day they called me in. The Murky Fringe: Was there an audition? Butter: No. It [...]

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Confusion in a Wet Nurse Interview

January 7, 2010

Mother: And why did you leave your last job? Wet Nurse: My employer no longer needed my services. Mother: Why was that? Wet Nurse: Because the child no longer required breast milk. Mother: I see … and was that your decision or the mother’s? Wet Nurse: Hers, of course. Mother: And how old was the [...]

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The MF Interviews Inertia

December 1, 2009

The Murky Fringe: How do you feel about people citing you metaphorically? Inertia: Honestly, when people talk about having a problem with inertia in their relationship, it hurts. They’re not out-of-line per se, but having your name associated with the stalled progress between two individuals, well, of course it takes its toll. MF: It’s guilt [...]

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The MF Interviews The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2007)

October 27, 2009

Murky Fringe (MF): How would you describe yourselves to someone who has never heard of The Alvin Aliey American Dance Theater? Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT): We are a modern dance company out of New York with– MF: Is dance dead? AAADT: [shrugs] We don’t understand. Are you asking about choreography? MF: I’m asking [...]

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