The Ugly One in the Middle is about Stan Campbell’s wicked, and often funny story of the search for two people, his birth mom, and the angelic, sensual woman of his dreams. Kind of romantic, right? But, wait…there is humor, mystery and intrigue. Just before Stan’s sixteenth birthday, his Aunt Patsy accidentally let it slip that his mom and pop did not conceive him. No surprise. Parents having sex? Quel horror! His adoptive mom knew something dark, but she wasn’t talking. It didn’t matter much…then. Stan’s top priorities of the day were drowning his bashfulness in a wine and rubbing alcohol mix. That didn’t work. He threw up and fell down a lot. After leaving his rural Cape Breton home, Stan found periods of sobriety, interrupted by evenings of alcoholic blackouts, and the end of virginity, culminating in a terror-filled evening of lust. Stan’s story is roller-coaster of multiple marriages, followed by multiple divorces, caused mostly by multiple affairs while pursuing a career as a big city radio DJ.
Innehållsförteckning
Forward
1 My Mouth Organ
2 Boogie Nights
3 Dead Visitors
4 No Shit! I’m Adopted?
5 Dead In My Bed
6 Until I Need Glasses
7 The Summer Of My Malcontent
8 My Two Birthdays
9 No Fun With Dick And Jane
10 Kill Me, Mama
11 Busted Flat In Miramichi
12 Somersault
13 Marry Me Sis
14 Arctic Cat
15 Payback Back Home
16 Here Comes Santa Claus
17 You’re Fired!
18 I’m Stan Campbell!
19 Sophie’s Bad Choice
20 No News At 5:00
21 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Again
22 Too Many Mac Neils
23 Spinning Out Of Control At 45 Rpm
24 Twain Wreck
25 Y’all Come
26 Third Rate Romance, Low Rent Rendezvous
27 Living In The Diplomat
28 We Won The Lottery
29 Next!
30 I Swear
31 Hooray For Hollywood!
32 Pop Dies And Mom Gets Tough
33 The Beverly Hillbilly
34 Northern Exposure
35 Fatal Attraction
36 Me And Bill Clinton
37 Miracle On Munson Avenue
38 Tripping Over The Twelve Steps
39 Four?
40 Kidnapped
41 Once More With Fear
42 9/11
43 Mom’s Note From The Other Side
44 The Letter
45 The Ugly One In The Middle
Epilogue
Om författaren
After five years in the military Alex Stan Campbell was employed as Top Secret cleared electronic technician in the arctic. Following the frigid operation, he was hired for an overnight radio DJ position. Quickly, he moved on to host radio shows throughout Canada, and eventually, on network TV. In 1982, he launched a record company and produced artists in Nashville, including then-unknown, Eilleen (Shania) Twain. The record business was a critical success and a financial disaster. Stan returned to radio in Nashville and on to Los Angeles. After five years in Hollywood, Stan moved to the peace and quiet of a small town in Northern Michigan. Besides writing, Stan is currently a voice actor.