Pumpkin Belly
From: Nanci Olesen
Length: 00:02:51
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Piece Description
Nanci Olesen describes a real life scary incident: being hugely pregnant on Halloween, she painted her belly orange and drew a jack o lantern on it. Assuming this would be funny and cute to her neighbors, she proceeded to flash her pumpkin belly as she trick or treated with her preschooler. But alas, an up close glimpse of real life might be just too scary, even for Halloween.
Broadcast History
Nanci Olesen has been producing short reports, commentaries, one-hour specials and a half hour weekly program, all under the auspices of MOMbo.org (http://www.mombo.org) since 2000. MOMbo?s mission statement is;
?to broadcast the everyday truth about motherhood (in order to save the world).?
In 2005, The NOW YOU MOMbo four hour series has been heard on many public and community public radio stations in the past year, including KALW, KFAI, KUOW, KCUR, KGOU, KROU, KUAT, KUNM, WOI-AM, WBEZ, WOJB, WOMR, WSLU, Maine Public Radio, North Dakota Public Radio, Trent Radio (Peterborough Ontario).
Five-minute commentaries have aired on KFAI, KNOW, WKMS, WOJB, WOMR WYSO, and Minnesota Public Radio since 1997.
MOMbo?s four one hour long specials (A MOMbo Thanksgiving, A MOMbo New Year, A MOMbo Mother?s Day (two versions), produced in association with Public Radio International, have aired on more than sixty stations nationwide since 2002.
Nanci Olesen is the executive director, producer and host of MOMbo.org, a 501?3 organization. MOMbo MOMents are the newest offering by MOMbo.org, and Olesen expects to produce at least two MOMbo MOMents a month (approximate length: 5 to 6 minutes). News from ?the underbelly of motherhood? is MOMbo?s specialty and MOMbo MOMents are designed to be interstitial reports from the extraordinary and ordinary lives of moms, made available to all stations so that the news from the ?mom zone? is more commonly heard.
MOMbo MOMents are podcast at http://www.mombo.org.
More information about MOMbo can be obtained at http://www.mombo.org/about
Transcript
One year I was VERY PREGNANT on Halloween. Besides for the FEAR of the work I had ahead in labor, delivery, and then care of the infant, I was SCARED that our preschooler would have all the emotions of a child whose life in center stage had come to an end. It was a FRIGHTENING, SCARY Halloween.
I felt I must somehow enjoy myself on this very freaky precipice upon which I stood.
On Halloween afternoon, my friends Barb and Julie and I came up with the perfect idea. We whitewashed my belly with white clown makeup, then followed that with some very bright orange acrylic paint. Julie used a black grease pencil to draw two triangle eyes and a toothy grin... and VOILA.... my belly became a PUMPKIN!!
My preschooler was going to be Captain Hook. This was really his FIRST Halloween---- the first time that he ever REALLY understood what was going on. He was dressed up and ready...
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Timing and Cues
2:51
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Additional Files
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