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1. While in Pittsburgh, F's sister took us to a strip club to see a midget stripper. Yes. A midget stripper. Her name is Little Sassy Cassie, and she's 2'10" (exactly half my height!). She took it all off. She climbed the stripper pole and did handstands. I was pretty shocked by her obvious arm strength (I mean, she's lifting considerably less weight than I would be if I tried that, but she also has proportionally smaller arms than I do). Overall, it was a pretty interesting thing to do, and was worth seeing just for the ability to say that I have seen it. Cassie is on tour, and I totally recommend catching her if she visits your town.
2. F and I caught a fun play last weekend: William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead. The premise: it's 1599, and zombies attack the Globe Playhouse. It was a fun play in a lot of respects: fun if you like zombies, fun if you like getting splattered with fake blood (there were tarps for the first three rows), fun if you like clever writing and Shakespearean humor. Some of the jokes were great--there was a lot of playing with the idea that Shakespeare didn't write the plays and who might've written them instead. For example, Sir Francis Bacon shows up and wants Shakespeare to pass off one of Bacon's plays as his own, and later on, just about every character he runs into (Queen Elizabeth, John Dee, random actors) has a great idea for a play. The writing was just quick and clever and really fun. I also loved the ending, and the choreography was terrific. (And how thrilled the directors must have been when an actor wearing prosthetic legs signed up for auditions! Brilliant!)
2. F and I caught a fun play last weekend: William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead. The premise: it's 1599, and zombies attack the Globe Playhouse. It was a fun play in a lot of respects: fun if you like zombies, fun if you like getting splattered with fake blood (there were tarps for the first three rows), fun if you like clever writing and Shakespearean humor. Some of the jokes were great--there was a lot of playing with the idea that Shakespeare didn't write the plays and who might've written them instead. For example, Sir Francis Bacon shows up and wants Shakespeare to pass off one of Bacon's plays as his own, and later on, just about every character he runs into (Queen Elizabeth, John Dee, random actors) has a great idea for a play. The writing was just quick and clever and really fun. I also loved the ending, and the choreography was terrific. (And how thrilled the directors must have been when an actor wearing prosthetic legs signed up for auditions! Brilliant!)
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Date: 2009-04-03 05:19 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 05:54 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 07:03 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 10:50 pm (UTC)From:Ah, but strength is based on muscle cross-section, so if she's half your height, she's one-quarter as strong as you, but only lifting one-eighth the weight.
Note that applying the square-cube law to pole-dancing neatly illustrates the paradoxes in my life . . .