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i am: 40...a capricorn / moon in pisces / libra rising...an old soul with a young spirit...older than i look...contemplating my 3rd tattoo...NOT a web designer...a lesbian...working things out with the g.f....a native iowan...a graduate of cornell college and ohio state...a critical reader and thinker...really rather shy...agnostic...an ardent feminist...a bleeding-heart liberal...a pacifist...and so not your average white grrl...
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September 16, 2002
queer theatre & mob melodramathis weekend, the columbus national gay and lesbian theatre festival kicked off and we decided to check it out.
friday nite, we saw karen williams: comic superbitch, who was reasonably funny. i was surprised, tho, that there weren't more black folks in the audience (just s and 2 women who came in late), especially since karen's was the only act whose publicity featured a person of color (i.e., there may have been others, but their participation isn't obvious on the web site or in the materials). actually, i only saw 2 other people of color at the other shows during the weekend, and one was a festival judge (whom i used to date, but that's another story...). at first i wondered if maybe black folks in columbus don't really "do" theatre, or at least glbt black folks here don't do glbt theatre....but then again, maybe publicity for the whole event was just weak (which we kind-of suspect, anyway).
sunday, we saw the blade parade, which was pretty bad...and then the brian and mal show, which was hilarious. highlights included brian in a one-man "scooby doo goes to provincetown" skit in which he played all of the characters (including velma, who had, of course, already experienced p-town...probably with peppermint patty) and a version of bound, pieces of which were spread throughout the entire 90-minute show, that featured him doing the best jennifer tilly (as violet) i've ever seen.
s was amused by a coupla guys sitting next to her who introduced themselves to each other at the start of the show, were holding hands by the middle of the show, and playing with the hair at the nape of each other's necks by the end of the show. "men are funny," she said, as she delayed our departure to see if they went into the restroom together (they didn't). lesbians get accused all the time of bringing the u-haul on the second date, and i've seen it happen practically that fast...but damn!
anyway, s had bought us each a 5-show festival "gold pass," so we'll choose 2 more shows to see between now and saturday. i hope they're as good as brian and mal (tho i have my doubts).
of course, we made it home last nite in time for the season premiere of the sopranos. i can't tell yet if i'll be into it as much as i was last season—i think i'm still coming down off the the wire and trying to get back into the story line—but i'm glad they're back.
4:04 PM
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