fak-o-nym of the deceased

[fflo]

Knowing nothing about Sandra Dee's personal life, and wondering what catelin meant about her dying of a broken heart, I just went to read some obits. Her given name? Alexandra Zuck.

Seems a bloody shame she didn't just go by that. Agreed?

The heartbreak apparently involved childhood sexual abuse, a stage mother (is "stage" the expression for a parent who pushes a child into show biz? i'm suddenly drawing a blank), alcohol problems, depression, anorexia, and a veritable nervous breakdown after her mother died.


In other news, I am free from the all-day faint but persistent high-pitched screeching I thought at first was outside, then thought was my monitor, then realized was coming from my desk lamp. The lightbulb's death rattle. Or last throes, more accurately. The absence of that brain-piercing pitch is such a relief I want to dance. (Not as much as radicalteacher probably does, but she's dancier than the average bear, I'd wager.)


And now Sandra Dee has me thinking on things old ex- D and new ex- H have/had in common. Any guesses why? (No, it's not prompted by Dee/Zuck's "mother issues.")

What one's past loves have in common . . . interesting topic . . .

Comments

Re: interesting topic:

[eve-l-incarnata.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who is intelligent and doesn't have a college education, I have a chip because of the way people treat me... i.e. people with college educations who assume I am not intelligent or educated because I don't have a BS (or BA, but "BS" has funnier connotations) and treat me accordingly.

Actually, I have lots of BS, but it has nothing to do with a piece of paper.

Re: interesting topic:

[maffick.livejournal.com]

What you say is completely understandable.
I never made either of my love's feel that way, and, in turn, they both respected the fact that I'm getting mine and didn't try to belittle my education because of their own hang ups.

Re: interesting topic:

[fflo.livejournal.com]

har!

Anybody with real smarts knows smarts isn't about formal education completed or other knowledge stored. I hate jackasses who lord their degrees over people, or look down their noses at people without one.