Frank's Mom

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Frank's Mom is an audio-verité recording, similar in style to The Tube Bar Recordings and Shut Up, Little Man!. It features heated conversations between Frank and his mother over several years, which Frank secretly taped onto cassette.

1 Origins
2 Plot summary
3 Popular catch-phrases
4 External links

[edit] Origins

Little is definitively known about this recording, although it seems to take place in the northeastern United States (either Long Island, New York or central Connecticut) in the 1980's. Frank's mother's speech suggests a Boston accent, as it is noticeably non-rhotic.

Vigorous speculation on the provenance of this recording is currently underway on the Frank's Mom Speculation Page. A popular theory suggests that the Frank's Mom MySpace^TM page creator is Frank, and is keeping a low profile due to the sensitive nature of the recording.

[edit] Plot summary

Frank is home from Boston University for the summer, with loose plans to secure employment as a gas station attendant. His mother disagrees vehemently, with this and other aspects of his life, and berates him.

[edit] Popular catch-phrases

"I sent you to Boston University to go pump gas for the summer? At least get a job someplace that's decent. Go in a factory!"
"With you I look forward to the next disappointment...AS usual. I expect very little from you. AS usual. Expect very little from him, very little. And even when I expect little, he STILL disappoints me."
"You don't get no job, you don't even look for a job? The hell with you, buddy."
"You want to live the baby life all your life."
"You're just no good. You were no good from the day you were born. You aggravate me every day of my life. You're my cross. You're my MISERY!"
"You should only have such clean clothes as when I clean them."
"You just live like a pig and a slob."
"Your father is the one that gets up at six in the morning to pay the bills in this house. Not you!"
"What is your hair down to here for? It's not winter, it's summer! Didn't anybody tell you that it's summer? Don't you see it's ninety degrees out?"