Posted on 11/20/2007 7:17:21 AM PST by Alex Murphy
Bill Nye the Science Guy has filed a temporary restraining order against his ex-non-wife, author Blair Tindall, in Los Angeles Superior Court. Nye's filing—and the response from Tindall—tell a tawdry tale of mysterious liquids, poisoned gardens, and late-night visits from a troubled, black-clad woman.
Blair Tindall describes herself as a "recovering oboist." She authored Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, a well-reviewed account of the life of a classical music freelancer working in New York. Tindall and the bow-tied Science Guy hooked up in 2005 after Nye (whose entertainment career began when he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest) took a shining to Tindall's book and got in touch with the author. A chemical reaction ensued and the pair bonded in holy matrimony in February 2006. Or so it seemed. Even though their service was presided over by purpose-driven Pastor Rick Warren, the marriage certificate for Tindall and Nye was apparently invalid.
Their suspension of art and science blew up like a bad lab experiment. By the time she allegedly appeared in Nye's backyard "dressed in black and wearing a black hat" with "two plastic bottles filled with some sort of solvent" that she intended to use to kill flowers and plants in the garden, Tindall had been through a mess. She was hit by a car while riding her bicycle, lost her father, moved cross-country and back again, and been forced to endure an episode of the reality show about green-happy actor Ed Begley, Living With Ed.
In her response to Nye's restraining order, Tindall says that she says she is "no longer angry" at him, and has "moved on emotionally in all respects." To check out the late-night garden wrecker's demo video as a speaker, creative consultant, and motivator take a look at Tindall's YouTube profile. Elsewhere on that site you can also see a portion of the ill-starred faux wedding that led to the Ed Begley-watching and ultimately, the plant-killing (which surely made Mr. Begley, and Mother Nature, shed a tear).
Purpose-Driven Wedding ping!
“Ex-non-wives” can be a problem.
This is way to complicated for me to understand. I’ll stick with the advanced physics threads.
That’s sad. I remember watching Bill Nye on Seattle’s “Almost Live”, and I remember watching his show in school.
Unhappiness is Nye nigh.
If someone's your ex-non-wife, doesn't that make them your wife? If you are no longer a non-wife, you'd be a wife, right? Or would you be a non-non-wife?
I'm more of a Beakman's World guy myself. You can't go wrong when the lab rat ("I am not a lab rat - I'm a man in a lab rat suit") has a piece of cheese rolled up in his tshirt sleeve like a pack of smokes.
No, no. That’s Orville Reddenbacher.
Good thing I searched for this, I was about to post it from Foxnews.com.
A friend and I came up with a theory about oboe players, and why most are psychos. It's all that back pressure. It bursts blood vessels in the brain.
Watch someone play oboe. All the veins in the head and neck pop out.
Looks nothing like him :)
A Self centered person married to another self centered person = divorce every time. There should be mandatory marital counseling by someone who has been married for atleast 40 years and is NOT a famous book writer and mega church pastor! They make you get blood tests, why not counseling requirement?
Rick Warren is involved. Surprise, surprise.
The article seems more confusing than the situation itself.
Ergot of Nye poisoning.
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