I have a new story on the Risk! podcast. These pics help explain just how weird and totally fucked up my relationship with Dora was. (Before I beat her up in a fit of rage.)
If you haven’t listened to the story on Risk!, this post won’t make sense (it should be coming out Monday night of 6/12). If you have listened to it, this post just gives you a peek into the mind of a woman going crazy in a car by herself for three months on the road. Dora was both my BBF and my nemesis. This story is about being a lone wolf desperately trying to connect but hiding behind humor (and literally a fucked up baby doll paper mache thingy from Kmart). If you want to see the stories I wrote from the road where I give Dora a voice and have a lot of fun with her, go back to my posts from the summer of 2009. The places I went were crazy and fun and the people I met were amazing.
Also, her paper mache body eventually fell off, so I put her head on an old baby doll and bought her some shoes lol
climbers I met in wyoming movie theater with people i met on the road a double decker outhouse so I could shit on Dora men I met at a bar in montana bartender in montana montana dude trying to get her all loose testical festival
chill time
what a mess
some old lady outside a museum in Montana
Glacier National Park The conductor of the choo-choo train that Dora and I rode with other kids
A hitch-hiker I gave a ride to in Kansas The Tetons, Wyoming dude at a bar Beach day. Also, she looks so freak’n human here, no?
gas station worker barber shop in New Mexico testicle festival inMontanaa
Spam musuem game show room helicopter I met this guy in Taos cuz he had a bunch of bears sitting in chairs outside his house. He ended up being kinda inappropriate with Dora Burying Dora in the sand at that beach with the Goonies rocks
Met this man outside the Goonies house and did the Truffle Shuffle with him. Then he held Dora world’s largest doctor’s bag KFC museum people I met while tubing in montana
my narcolepsy doctor in tennessee I still can’t believe he was willing to do this shit
prison museum in colorado
extreme christian hippy dad-son duo who did a photo shoot with me how i carried her
motorcyle people I met putting Dora on the back of their hog at the hooker museum where hookers hid form the cops (a fridge) dora and an old timey vibrator
strangely named gas station
(I kid you not, this place is called Foam Hinge- Stone Hinge made out of foam)
(at a drive in movie)
(someone’s actual mailbox!)
world’s largest tree house in Tennessee (which is actually a CHURCH) Hooker musuem. Dora is on the couch in the back
(I hate Twilight but the town was fascinating. Forks, Washington)
Forks, Washington’s Twilight museum
nashville potato museum mining musuem
jackson hole, wyoming state fair. The goat ate her hair when I wasn’t looking
goddess festival in Idaho this goddess was kinda a bitch dukes of hazzard museum
(church)
zoltar machine
This lady ALSO carried a doll around with her and we became fast friends (she carried that mannequin for awhile, but now carries this small one) alligator farm guy working at a gas station he worked in roller blades lol This was right after I bought Dora a new body. Her head kept falling off her paper mache body, so I bought a baby doll and some water shoes, and now she’s mobile! dentist in wyoming some weird museum in south dakota
rocking climbing buddies I met on the road Not actually Rome. Some weird place in the midwest called The Dells giving clinton head but my aim was off with the camera But Dora got it right! Some werid musuem in the midwest with abandoned giant things. This is a shark mouth Spam museum worker who told me all about his son who plays with dolls too spam museum at the packaging station
Jolly green giant fucking dora (he’s wearing reading glasses for some reason)
I also appreciated a place to put her other than the gross floor when I went pee
