....PhylNez, The Monkees, and Why I Know Who They Are....

PHYLLIS ANN BARBOUR NESMITH MET ROBERT MICHAEL NESMITH IN COLLEGE. The fact that I just typed that means, well, I wasn't doing much French homework (or any homework for that matter) in high school. I can also tell you the name of their two boys, and the dogs. YES I know too much. Phylnez died on Saturday of Lou Gherig's Disease. She was a pretty lady and apparently a very nice person too. If you can hear me Phyllis, I hope you're feeling much better. To Christian, Jonathan, and Jessica (is she Phyl's or Katherine's daugther?), I'm sorry about your Mommy. Jason, sorry about your stepmoms.

Why do I care? Well....The Monkees and their various familial off-shoots were a big part of my life in High School. I wasn't particularly a POPULAR teen, and you're really not too hip when you own, and carry around, a Monkees lunchbox full of Monkees CD's that you and your best friend literally saved our pennies for. You're hip alright, in 1966 standards.

I trade in my "stud" every seven or ten years. Needless to say I can name them all: Jonathan Brandis, A.J. McLean, Michael Nesmith, and Chris Isaak. (It's obvious the famous man that holds my affection holds it for a long time. I'm a Sagittarius, what can I say?)

Back in the day Michael was the "least" favourite Monkee, Davy being the favourite, (he just got drunk and challenged the whole audience to fight at one of his shows and on my birthday NO LESS) but to me, Michael was VERY attractive, and I appreciated his skinny, geeky, gawky frame. I loved his huge nose, pouty lips, and olive skin. No matter that he looked like that CLOSE TO 40 YEARS BEFORE I EVER SAW HIM....although I'd loved the Monkees since I was six. He always stood out to me; it was that damned GREEN woolhat! I would have posted another picture to illustrate how hot I thought he was, but without the hat nobody even realizes its him.

Anyways, back to my weird story.

We were such Monkees fans back in the day that we transcribed the "Fairy Tale" episode and did it as a play for the RenFaire here in our town. NERDS I TELLS YA!! Of course I was Princess Gwen, the character Nez played for most of the episode. You HAVE to see it:

Michael obviously meant a lot to me, and so I wrote fanficiton. Phyllis, being the first wife, got a lot of crucifying from my character, who took on the role of Nurit Wilde, becoming Michael's mistress and Jason Nesmith's mother. (I had no life, okay?) I had to do my research. I read A LOT of fansites, opened one of my own that I never quite organized, and developed enough of a fandom that I had favourite fansites, the best one being Psycho-Jello!!

How sad that the fansite had to die. There were some good ones.

I wrote a lot of stories, and put "Phyllis" through a lot. Hell, I was even Peter Tork's "wife" in a few of them.

Anyway, it's very sad that she's gone, and I hope that her family is doing okay.

AND NOW THE GRATUITOUS CHRIS ISAAK PICTURE!!!

"ooh my love...." You may very well be the last of those "studs".

HAZ A GOOD NIGHT PIPPLEZ!

~Moni