Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess

<p><strong> At the end of the 20th century while mainstream media popularized an expensively dressed version of modern adult life a rawer and definitely weirder reality was playing out off-screen.</strong> Columnist and zinester Kathy Biehl chronicled that from a singular and heavily trafficked intersection - collision point some might say - of young professionals performing and outsider artists Unitarians gays and lesbians metaphysicians traveling statues and people who defied categorizing many of whom wanted to sleep together and some of whom actually did.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This essay collection a followup to <em>Eat Drink & Be Wary: Cautionary Tales</em> romps through antics sagas and questionable behavior that Biehl witnessed experienced and at times instigated.</strong> With eyebrow firmly arched she snapshots sexual tension ambivalence and confusion; perils of fan mail and professional caroling; Groucho impersonators snooping repairmen and divine manifestations; ludicrous journeys backstage dramas and driveway parties; close-ups with a strange frightening disease; her own accidental attainment of goddesshood; and other mystery-marvels of life on the bridge to the millennium.<em> </em>All of it really happened. Nobody could make this stuff up.   </p>