![]() This was even truer for those of us fortunate enough to be members of upstanding Greek organizations with tilted moral compasses and a never ending supply of alcohol.įour specific experiences took me through the progressive stages of my own sexual awakening during school, each of which was important for different reasons. Every night the BAC of the student body took a sharp turn upward and the odds of getting a girl in bed improved dramatically for even the most unsightly scholars. The actives were not happy.With the freedom of college came an entirely different outlook. Oh, and everyone else that was with me got MIPs only because I ran. The mug shot from that night is my personal favorite. A few cracked ribs later I was arrested, charged with public intoxication, and pissed myself in the county jail drunk tank that night. I dropped two stories and landed with a thud in the grass next to - you guess it - another cop car. Unbeknownst to me, we weren’t parked on the first floor. One of the guys I was with yelled, “Stop pissing! Stop pissing! Cops!” and I immediately tucked-and-rolled over the concrete barricade and out of the parking garage, because I was already on probation and couldn’t get arrested again. As I’m relieving myself a cop pulls into the parking garage and hits me with his spotlight. Keep in mind, I am wearing a bathing suit, no shoes, and no shirt, covered from head to toe in multi-colored paint. When we arrived back on campus and parked in a parking garage near the dorms, I got out and immediately started pissing all over the pavement. When I was a pledge I got blackout drunk at that party (when I wasn’t supposed to be drinking in the first place), and got a ride back to campus with a pledge brother, two hammered actives, and a girlfriend of ours. RB: My chapter had an annual paint party, similar to the one in the first chapter of the TFM book. That many crazy fucks packed onto buses with girls and booze creates one hell of a party atmosphere. The latter is great too though, because there’s really no other experience quite like a bus trip to New Orleans for fraternity formal. The former is a personal favorite because it really captures the excitement and total naivety that freshmen take into their first semester of rush, and highlights how unbelievably fun that time period is. RB: It’s really hard for me to pick a favorite chapter, because I like different ones for different reasons, but “Join or Die a GDI” and “Road Trip Raging” are two of my favorites. That being said, it is a fictional humor novel, so all of the characters, events, and stories have been fictionalized and molded together to embody fraternity life as a whole.ĮL: What is your favorite story from the book? Whether the inspiration came from something I lived personally, heard about on campus, or was told by a friend who went to another school, everything within the book was inspired by something. RB: When I started writing the book one of my goals was to make it the most realistic representation of modern day fraternity life as possible, so everything in the book is actually inspired by reality. We sold the book to Ben Greenberg at Grand Central Publishing a few months later, and then I spent a year or so writing it.ĮL: How much of the book is based on reality and how much is made up? I obviously jumped at the opportunity, and before I knew it Byrd was guiding me through the stages of building a book proposal. Shortly thereafter we received an email from a literary agent, Byrd Leavell, stating that he thought our brand offered a great opportunity for a bestselling book to be created. I went to college with Madison and Ryan, who were older members of my fraternity, so in December, right before I graduated, they hired me as their first employee and staff writer. Ross Bolen: was launched on Jby Madison Wickham and Ryan Young.
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