The Story
When she was a young girl, Barbara McBrideSmith was introduced to the ancient Greek myths but she didnt quite hear right. When her teacher told her they lived in the cradle of western civilization, young Barbara thought she said Western civilization as in central Texas, around about Waco, where they seemed to fit right in. Ol Man Zeus, after all, was a guntotin Big Daddy, sort of the J.R. Ewing of Mount Olympus. You know Aphrodite, the school basketball queen or Pandora the debutante, the best guitar picker around was Orpheus Tom T. and wasnt Medusa the one who started the fashion trend known as Big Hair? With her incurable Texas drawl, feminist sympathies, and cheerleaders doright attitude, master storyteller Barbara McBrideSmith spins the Greek myths as youve never heard them before.
Description
When she was a young girl, Barbara McBrideSmith was introduced to the ancient Greek myths but she didnt quite hear right. When her teacher told her they lived in the cradle of western civilization, young Barbara thought she said Western civilization as in central Texas, around about Waco, where they seemed to fit right in. Ol Man Zeus, after all, was a guntotin Big Daddy, sort of the J.R. Ewing of Mount Olympus. You know Aphrodite, the school basketball queen or Pandora the debutante, the best guitar picker around was Orpheus Tom T. and wasnt Medusa the one who started the fashion trend known as Big Hair? With her incurable Texas drawl, feminist sympathies, and cheerleaders doright attitude, master storyteller Barbara McBrideSmith spins the Greek myths as youve never heard them before.
