Gena revisits ancient history via Youtube... By Gena Oppenheim
Recently I wrote about my experiences reenacting the Civil War for an ill-fated cable reality show. While the show never aired, a fellow contestant recently wrote to me that five minute edited clips were on Youtube. Of course I immediately went to observe.
In one clip what I found were not just ridiculously low-budget images of “The Civil War. In. Action” (featuring a girl in a black tank-top, who might just be me, smiling uncomfortably as another contestant described the Confederate Army as “Rock & Roll") but also that odd modern phenomenon that reality TV has introduced of having people you don’t know dissecting you when you are not there. In this case a member of the "Confederate team", when noting the "Union team's" competition, stated in regards to moi: “You got the little girl from New York who’s so fragile she’s like a tulip!” It's too bad they didn’t feature the clip where I learned to load an ancient rifle 30 seconds faster then all those Confederate boys. Booya! Enjoy…
GENA OPPENHEIM Gena is a fourth generation New Yorker who teaches second-grade in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Barnard College and received her MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. http://twitter.com/#!/genabeans
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