Dumb Laughs AND Haiku Review
Put on silly dressTake a step into the past
enjoy the kings nuts!
I was invited to attend Scarborough Fair this weekend by my friend Kareem. The invitation was unexpected but welcome and we ended up going on Saturday. One of my favorite parts was just watching everyone else who was in costume. It was so beautiful and inspiring to see all of the effort that people put into their costumes for this event. While at Scarborough you need to see the shows. I went to see 3 shows while I was there, The German Brothers, Don Juan and Miguel and, The Flaming Idiots or.. An idiot, but we'll get to that. The entire experience was great, walking around and enjoying the sights and smells.
The first show I caught was Don Juan and Miguel. It's a really adorable little show with lots of gay innuendo and stereotype. I personally love stereotype humor depending on the subject. They make you feel included and there are a lot of laughs to be had, both adult humor and childish giggles that I love so much. It's is a really enjoyable show and you have a hard time wiping off the grin you have at the end.
The same could definitely be said about The Flaming Idiots whom I saw next. Sadly only one flaming idiot was available but he was great. My favorite thing that he did was a juggling act whilst standing on a very large mans shoulders. Lets keep in mind that this particular flaming idiot is a tiny man and so it wasn't to terribly difficult for him to stand on that guys shoulders or for him to be held up there. ANYWAY his show was a lot of fun and I enjoyed every second of it.
Last and least is the German brothers. My friend and I went to see them because they were walking around the fair making jokes and comments and he thought they looked like they'd be funny and so did I. Sadly though the show itself left a lot to be desired. They certainly had their moments but it wasn't that good and there were other things I would have rather been doing.
All in all though I had a very enjoyable experience and wish I could go again but sadly circumstance will not allow it.
Peoples Secrets
I spent all day yesterday reading through the archives of Post Secret. Just so you know, it is possible to go through the Post Secret archives if you use an RSS feed, it lets you go very far back. I couldn't help getting more and more depressed as I read through those secrets because a good number of them were my own, but it also made me feel very sad for the people who had to write them. I've realized how easy it is for me to lose my humanity or at least to forget others. I work in a call center and I've adopted the mindset that these are not people on the other line, but idiots who are wasting my time. I think that reading the post secret blog has helped me remember some of that humanity. I could be talking to any one of the people who sent in one of those secrets. These are humans with problems. Each person I talk to has a secret. I forget that and that makes me feel like a bad person. I'm going to try to remember that from now on, we'll see how it goes.
