
Charles Bewley [a.k.a some movie star I don't know]...
There's a new movie out, and it's actually not the new Star Trek DVD,
Star Trek XI, that I'm about to write about. It's called Twilight: New Moon. Why am I writing about a movie I have
literally no interest in paying to see, and not even on OnDemand? Because the
guy who plays the character Demetri, Charlie Bewley, is a dead ringer for my
uncle Jimmy, my mom's younger brother (out of the seven she has to pick from).
He has my sister's, aunt Marie and her sons' eyes, he has Aunt Marie's hair
color, and that squinty-eyed look we all of us get when we're in the sun. He has
the forehead we all do -- really high brow. He has mine and my daughter's jaw.
My eyebrows (but he also has a makeup artist to make his show up, whereas mine
look as if I haven't any, even with the black hair bit going on). There's only one way a guy with the last name of Bewley who's a Briton could
resemble me and mine so much: It's called "shared DNA." And the British Bewleys try to act as if we Irish-Catholic American Bewleys
aren't even family. Oh fucking PLEASE. Get a goddamned grip, you eejits! As if!
All Bewleys look alike, you...oh, I don't even have a word for how many shades
of "stupid" this strikes me as. ...and that motherfucker, Charles Bewley, is undoubtedly my cousin by
blood. He looks like every Bewley I know,
and they all answer to "Irish-Catholic." And if he ever sees this and actually has interest in emailing, ok. I'd love
to see how much more alike we are than I know right now, because all I know
right now is that he really is my cousin, and he's one of the British ones we
actually descend from, because he looks like me and all my mom's family and my
very own daughter. He's a dead ringer, rubber-stamp-copy of my very own uncle
Jimmy. It's just too weird and I don't know how many shades of crazy that some dude
I don't even know who's very definitely family is splashed all over everywhere
and has millions of eejitin' fans, but he'll probably never see this because
he'll probably mistake me for a eejitin' fan. Definitely
not. I can't begin to leave that and run the other way at transwarp factor ten
fast enough. "I left that behind about a million eons ago" would be a great way
to describe it. Yuck. It'd just be nice to meet the rest of the family that I come from and find
out all about them. I've heard all about them all my life. The last time any of
us heard from that side of the family was during World War II. I'd also like to find out how much he knows about the other side of the
story, if he does know. Or if he's as crazy as the rest of us. DNA seems to
transmit more than just physical characteristics. It seems to implant certain
personality traits I've also noticed, so...it'd be really nice to know how much
he actually is like his American cousins that he probably doesn't even suspect
exist.
11:55 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009


Amor Prohibido
Ok, so...this is taking too frakkin' long! I am getting so
sick and tired of waiting! Ugh! If one of my very own grandfathers (too far back
to count) married out of his class and religion, why can't it happen again? It
was only 1648, after all. (It may have been almost five centuries, but in
a family as old as mine, five centuries isn't really that long.) Yeah, well, in the meantime...I found out that my daughter hates me. Looks
like Sheila's managed to commit "parental alienation syndrome." Yay. Me and my boyfriend broke up (like that's not obvious!). He literally told me
that I'm too old for him. Too old? He's thirty-nine and I just turned
thirty-six! It's because (oh, this is rich!) he's into teenagers! That
and he ain't too bloody happy about me and...well, I did discuss him in my last
entry. I'd just rather not even give out his name. Or much else about him, either. I mean, would you?
09:52 p.m. Monday, November 2, 2009

