Why Jo?
- Amanda Riddell
- Feb 6, 2024
- 2 min read
Well, I know a few Jo's - there's my cousin Jo, and there's also Josephine, who was the manager at the Lambton Quay McDonalds when I was working there.
She was from Rolleston, so it's probably to do with missing the mainland. I mean, that's why it starts in Dunedin, which is where Ethan and Michelle C went to uni.
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think that's the right name .. can't remember, but yeah, she was that same archetype of a petite, raven-haired woman that was very intense.
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Saunders was just a random surname; it wasn't an intentional reference to Chloe's assistant - I'm not that obsessed! 🤣
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I mostly followed Chloe's antics via the news for most of the last 6 years.
Then I watched a bunch of YouTube videos after deciding that I wanted to borrow some of her mojo for Jo.
That's how I found that UC campus video from 2017.
Then, reluctantly, I followed her on social media. Then I decided to troll her.
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As you can see, I trolled lots of people; she wasn't special in that regard, and I probably said far nastier things about other people than I ever said about Chloe. I'm attracted to her because she's butch: I wasn't intending for that to be such a big thing - re: whether she identifies in the masculine - but it is a sore point for me regarding my butch friends that they seem to enjoy much better lives than I'm able to as a femme.
The difference being that I knew her a little, as compared to all the other celebrities who I trolled, and also that it appeared that she decided to troll me back; in fact, many of you decided to troll me back. 👍🏻
I do think that was somewhat petty, but overall I think that I can claim some moral high ground now that people know I'm not Bruce Wayne and a multi-millionaire, but rather some dole bludger that has way too much free time on her hands.
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I wonder whether TVNZ or Three would be interested in a McPhail and Gadsby-type show that expands upon the satirical skits that I've been doing on Facebook.
It's not really on-brand for any of the established media companies, though.
The idea of people really walking around in fruit-head costumes amuses me, though.
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