Arriving bathed in sweat after dashing across the “mound,” all uphill of course, from the wrong venue. (It turns out there are lots of “Guilded Balloon” venues! :-(((. After all that rushing about I decidedly needed to sit down and we did for an hour of excellent comedy:
“Girl on Girl” with Ayesha Hazarika. Not the lesbian exhibition the title suggestively promised, but a very funny dissection of the difficulties of being feminist despite being in what some say is a post feminist world. One advantage: “You ARE entitled to an 18% discount on your wages!” Who knew what I was missing out being a man. Some of the best laughs went right past me as I’m not up on the UK personalities invoked. However, her bit about madly searching out a person of color for a panel discussion sounded distressing like home in Cambridge, USA.
After the performance we went back stage as my friend Ann has been friends with Ayesha for quite some time. I was quickly introduced and was made privy to talk of people and events I only read about in the New Yorker. I did get my photo taken with Ayesha and walked away feeling very cool. Funny, fun, and finally cool after my mad walk from across town. Definitely worth the rush.
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