This past Monday I appeared on The View. You can catch the full episode here. I plan to write at length about my experience, but for now I’ll just say that it was a blast. It was an intense day on a lot of levels, not the least of which was that I reconnected with my friend Rachel (a producer on the show), whom I hadn’t seen in twenty years. I was incredibly nervous at first, but as soon I had my ass in that chair with the cute little blue mug in front of me, I felt great. I actually had fun. I made a mental note that if a host position ever becomes available, I definitely want to apply. I think I’d give them just the edge they need.
I seem to be getting a bunch of incredibly supportive feedback from people who think that Barbara was mean to me. I appreciate the love, but I have to disagree. I’ve been known to don my journalist hat every so often, so I know the difference between being mean and digging for the story. It never once crossed my mind that Barbara was being mean. I was honored to be interviewed by her and frankly thrilled to watch her do her thing, even when I did her radio show afterwards and she managed to throw me off my game a couple of times. She’s friggin’ Barbara Walters, of course she threw me off my game.
Besides, I didn’t write this book so people would like me and be nice to me. I wrote it because I wanted to tell my story. The View gave me the opportunity to do exactly that.
Played hooky on Monday and saw on your blog you were on the show that morning so I checked it out. Great job! You were a natural up there. congratulations!
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Completely heard your inflection, and love the commentary you posted in response. While I [AHEM!] can’t say that I saw the segment (since I, you know, heard about it after the fact and all…), I’m sure clips of it will surface on “teh interwebz”—or I’ll see a re-run—eventually.
However, yeah: of course Babs threw you off-kilter. Sounds like you handled it much better than guests have in the past (Courtney Love, who?), and I commend you.
Why, it doesn’t seem like that long ago that a certain unnamed micro-press wouldn’t give you the time of day…
And look at you now, kiddo.
Thanks for reminding me that naw, it’s not all futile—you know, all of “this.”
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Barbara’s always a little bit mean, that’s her role–she’s like the scary principal. I bet she partied like a harem girl in her days (maybe?) What I want to know is if Elizabeth whatshername is obnoxious in person.
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