The Ok Oh Afternoon Tea Sini Anderson Interview 4ish PM EST

(sounds of Lisa on the phone, Holle in the background, thanksgiving salutations, a long-winded dialogue about peanut butter selection, a story about shirts getting shrunk at the laundry)
Ok Oh: Um, what happened to your friend's dog, friend's dog? No?
Sini: No, but why are you saying that?
Ok Oh: I thought I overheard you saying something about a poem and a dog. . .and I like poems about dogs.
Sini: Oh! I did say that yes, yes, yeah, my friend's dog was playing with the dog walker, after they went for their walk and they jumped up and they head butted each other by accident. . .
Ok Oh: The dog walker. . .?
Sini:. . .and the dog.
Ok Oh: Oh.
Sini: and, um, now little Bella has, like she, as a result of that had a stroke and went blind. . .
Ok Oh: How old was little Bella?
Sini: A year.
Ok Oh: Whoah. What kind of dog?
Sini: A little Frenchie.
Ok Oh: Poodle?
Sini: Bulldog.
Ok Oh: Bulldog. Oh, a French Bulldog. Wow, now she's blind?
Sini: No! Not a French Bulldog. A French something. French. . .
(Lisa from across the table, "Did you finish your poem?")
Sini: Yeah! I sent it off. So anyway they have to go back to see a specialist today so I sent Bella a poem.
Ok Oh: How nice.
Sini: To Bella The Beautiful
Ok Oh: Really?
Sini: Yeah.
Ok Oh: Will you read it to me?
Sini: Yeah.
Ok Oh: Can I put it on my blog? Can I put it in the interview?
Sini: Sure (long pause) I didn't know what else to say, so I just. . . wrote Bella a poem. And, when Bella first got back from the hospital like. . . a couple months ago. . .Liza, her mom asked me to come over and, well, she was asking people to come over and sit with her when she wasn't going to be there and stuff, so I went went to go sit with her and. . .oh she's blind everything else like that and then one of my Ghosty Guides (makes hand movements) . . .
Ok Oh: What's a Ghosty Guide?
Sini: Some people have little. . .(hand movements) . . .people that follow them, I have, I have a couple little people that follow me around, Ghosty Guides.
Ok Oh: You have Ghosty Guides?
Sini: Yeah.
Ok Oh: Like real Ghosty Guides?
Sini: Yeah, and um. . .
Ok Oh: Man.
Sini: . . .one of my Ghosty Guides is a. . .well, loves dogs more than anything, like more than anything. (flattening a pancake hand movement) This was my mentor who passed away and I was with her when she died. Loves dogs and was, everything, was about like fuck this world, but the dogs are amazing. . .
Ok Oh: Yeah.
Sini: And um, so I was over at Liza's house with Bella and Liza took off to do whatever she had to do and I made a little nest for Bella on the couch and I was like laying down with her and you know, she's blind and her head was crooked and so she really couldn't focus on anything and we took anap and we fell asleep. . . and then we woke up and I was like petting her head and. . . I was thinking about Chris, my Ghosty Guide. And then, um, a couple minutes later the little dog looked up and like, you know, looked over and started focusing on things and was like turning her head and her head was straight and I was like, "Bella!" and she looked at me and then turned her head a little bit, and from then on she started getting better.
Ok Oh: Because she saw your Ghosty Guide!
Sini: I thought, I think she saw Chris my Ghosty Guide.
Ok Oh: No shit.
Sini: So, of course I didn't say that to her mom. . .(sounds of zipping jacket)
Ok Oh: Right.
Sini:. . . but her mom said "she's so much better, she's getting so much better" and I was like well, my Ghosty Guide was there.
Ok Oh: (laughing)
Sini: So, anyway, but now she has to go back and see a specialist because. . .um. . .she's not getting all of her sight back or something.
Ok Oh: Huh.
Sini: So. . .
Ok Oh: Wow man, what a drag. . .
Sini:

Bella The Beautiful

You're a shining big star
and you're not so far
so I'm sending you some love
plus all your little guides from above

(Sini: aside with gesticulating hand movements "guides from above")
(Ok Oh: "yeah yeah")

you had a big head butt
but you're no mutt
you're a shining big star
and you're still going to run real far
but for now, let your tiny paws take a rest
and the whole world wishes you the best
when you're all done and through
we'll toss a frisbee to you
you're a cheerleader for treats
so remember, no defeats

Ok Oh: Hey, that's great!
(laughter)
Ok Oh: That's fantastic!
Sini: Bella The Beautiful
(laughter)
Ok Oh: I love it, I love it. So you have other Ghosty Guides. How many Ghosty Guides do you have?
Sini: (puts up three fingers)
Ok Oh: You have three Ghosty Guides.
Sini: One spot is a switchable spot.
Ok Oh: Do the Ghosty Guides know that it's a switchable spot. . .
Sini: Yeah, I think they. . .
Ok Oh:. . .really?
Sini: . . .made it that way. . .
(laughter)
Sini: . . .it's up to them, I didn't have anything to do with any of it.
Ok Oh: Oh, that's incredible.
Sini: But Chris is a constant, right now, for the last four years.
Ok Oh: Interesting.
(someone whistling in t he background)
Ok Oh: Maybe I have a Ghosty Guide.
Sini: (whispering) a lot of people have Ghosty Guides.
Ok Oh: I'm sure, I'm sure, I mean if they're out there they are not just for one person.
Sini: No.
Ok Oh: I bet Grandpa John is my Ghosty Guide. That's the only won I can really think of.
Sini: Grandpa John sounds good.
Ok Oh: He was great, not my real grandpa. He used to wear cartigans all the time.
Sini: And you have some of them.
Ok Oh: I have one.
Sini: One.
Ok Oh: It's red. Very itchy.
Sini: I bet it looks good.
Ok Oh: I haven't worn it. It's at home, it's like in plastic.
Sini: You have your actual Grandpa's shirt, yes?
Ok Oh: No, that's Marina's grandfather. . .
Sini: Oh.
Ok Oh: . . .who's still alive. . .
Sini: Ok.
Ok Oh: . . .who sends me his clothes. . .
Sini: (a pencil is thrown on the table from some direction) Nice pencil.
Ok Oh:. . .when he doesn't want them. . .which I love.
Sini: It says gray.
Ok Oh: That's the pencil. Oh, it is. It's gray. Ok.
Sini: Oh, my head's about to explode.
Ok Oh: Oh you're sick you've got the two-time. . .
Sini: yeah I did, no it's just um, the light is going down, the snot is coming up. . .
(Lisa laughs)
Ok Oh: The clouds are really pretty.
Sini: And then I'm going to go work for Miss Whitney later.
Ok Oh: Oh you are.
Sini: It's Tuesday night with the Whitneys.
Ok Oh: Ooh.
(Lisa, "What's for dinner?")
Sini: You know, I can't let her feed me any more fat ass food, I can't do it. . .
Ok Oh: Ok, that's the end of the interview.
(microphone switches off)

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