DD and I just went to see the Nutcracker ballet at a local theater. The real ballet, with real ballerinas and tutus. ;) The show was incredible! I never expected something so professional from a local ballet company.
The Nutcracker Prince and the Sugarplum Fairy dancers are a married couple, and they danced like nothing I've ever seen before. It was beautiful to see. At one point, the Sugarplum Fairy's slipper came untied. The audience was on the edge of their seats, wondering if she would fall. You could tell when the couple realized the slipper was untied, as they both broke out in big grins. :) They handled it beautifully. The prince made sure she didn't fall, and the music *almost* paused as she danced gracefully off the stage, while the Prince performed a small solo, which I suspect was unplanned. Then the SF danced back onto the stage with leaps and bounds she could never have accomplished with those laces dangling in her wake. The show was just...wow!
And yet...well, you knew there had to be something, right? To begin, I was surprised to see popcorn, candy, and soft drinks sold in the lobby. I'd never seen that at this type of theater before. The sad part was that at the end of the show, the place looked like the aftermath of a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Why can't people throw away their trash?
Another shocking thing was that in addition to the applause, there were catcalls, whistles, and a lot of loud "Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!" a la Arsenio Hall. Of course this happened after intermission, when a lot of people were seen walking around with plastic cups of beer from the wine bar.
I also wondered, since when do people not dress for the ballet? Many of the people there wore jeans, and I even saw a couple of people in sweats and others in baseball caps.
Is this just indicative of our area, or has culture fallen to the masses? Must we always behave as if we are headed to a nascar event? I'm not one for preferring to dress up, in fact, I hate it. But if the occasion calls for it, I do. You sure aren't going to see me showing up at the ballet in my work clothes wearing a baseball cap and chugging beer. Egads!
Monday, December 17, 2007
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Here's lookin' at you, kid.Oswold, the guinea.
This is what we get when the forecast calls for 1-3 inches of snow...more like 6-8 inches.Friday, December 7, 2007
Oh.Their.God.
I was flipping radio stations in the car, and thought I'd stopped on the news. Silly me..it was the American Family Network or some such blather, which is some kind of Christian station where you get news with a slant toward how the rest of the world is going to hell. Um..yeah. I'll save ya a seat. *yawn*
They mentioned a group I'd never heard of: Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. Wow. They have a whole group for that? Sheesh. When a man loves another man, or a woman loves another woman, that, my dears, is homosexuality. Wow. I didn't even need a research grant.
But of course AFTAH isn't about finding the truth about anything. What they want is to show how all gays are headed for the big weenie roast in the deep south. The rant I heard on the radio was about San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, and all the depraved things the good xtains caught on video. Um...I'm hearing a roaring chorus of "Onward Christian sooooodliers..marching as to hide-in-the-bushes-and-get-some-porn-on-film-that-I-can-spend-some-alone-time-with-before-condemning-it-to-the-public..."
The AFTAH rep on the radio went on to describe the BDSM and nudity. Dude, since when is BDSM a solely gay thing? Heteros do it...heck, Christians have their very own version...CDD. So spanking is only ok when you shout "praise jebus" in the middle of it? Mr. Slave, of South Park fame, does that, or something close to it. roflmao
What's that you say? Not all xtians are spankers? Really!? Hmm, maybe not all gays are into it, either. Just because a group has one thing in common (Christianity, or homosexuality, or collecting chia pets) doesn't mean they have everything in common. Not all chia pet collectors prefer the Scooby head, ya know!
In all fairness, I did look at the aforementioned porn. *blush* It is a bit much. I'm not one for wanting to see a lot of mostly nude middle aged guys. Heck, I don't want to see mostly nude anybody, and I don't care for PDA, no matter the genders involved. But it IS San Francisco, and it IS a gay street fair, so why go if you don't want to see it? The article mentions children at the fair. What about giving the parents a tongue lashing? I take it that this isn't known as a family event, so why bring along the kiddies?
Back in the day (so to speak) when I went to church, I was at a special revival. This guy, I think it was Moody Adams, hinted at the evils that homosexuals perform in bathhouses and dark alleys. He couldn't, of course, tell us good people about it in church, as it was not suitable for the children in the room, but we could read all the sordid details in his book, available for purchase in the lobby. You wouldn't believe how all those good, decent, gawd fearing xtians lined up to buy copies of the smut! I didn't buy a copy, but borrowed someone else's. Wow..steamy to say the least. Funny how all of these pastors know so much about the gay lifestyle, huh? Not just the gay lifestyle in general, but the full on freak.
From what I saw on the AFTAH site, they are all about putting an end to homosexuality. A lot of money and time invested to stop consenting adults being gay. How about taking all that time and money and feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, or supporting random acts of kindness? I'd say to put a stop to pedophilia, but they like to blame that on the gays, too. *rolls eyes*
I've said it before: If you don't like gays, don't date 'em. And I now have to add: if gay BDSM bothers you, don't video tape it. Funny thing, now that I think of it: from the vantage point of some of the pics, those rogue xtians weren't just hiding in the bushes - they were right up in the thick of things. Now who needs a spanking?
They mentioned a group I'd never heard of: Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. Wow. They have a whole group for that? Sheesh. When a man loves another man, or a woman loves another woman, that, my dears, is homosexuality. Wow. I didn't even need a research grant.
But of course AFTAH isn't about finding the truth about anything. What they want is to show how all gays are headed for the big weenie roast in the deep south. The rant I heard on the radio was about San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, and all the depraved things the good xtains caught on video. Um...I'm hearing a roaring chorus of "Onward Christian sooooodliers..marching as to hide-in-the-bushes-and-get-some-porn-on-film-that-I-can-spend-some-alone-time-with-before-condemning-it-to-the-public..."
The AFTAH rep on the radio went on to describe the BDSM and nudity. Dude, since when is BDSM a solely gay thing? Heteros do it...heck, Christians have their very own version...CDD. So spanking is only ok when you shout "praise jebus" in the middle of it? Mr. Slave, of South Park fame, does that, or something close to it. roflmao
What's that you say? Not all xtians are spankers? Really!? Hmm, maybe not all gays are into it, either. Just because a group has one thing in common (Christianity, or homosexuality, or collecting chia pets) doesn't mean they have everything in common. Not all chia pet collectors prefer the Scooby head, ya know!
In all fairness, I did look at the aforementioned porn. *blush* It is a bit much. I'm not one for wanting to see a lot of mostly nude middle aged guys. Heck, I don't want to see mostly nude anybody, and I don't care for PDA, no matter the genders involved. But it IS San Francisco, and it IS a gay street fair, so why go if you don't want to see it? The article mentions children at the fair. What about giving the parents a tongue lashing? I take it that this isn't known as a family event, so why bring along the kiddies?
Back in the day (so to speak) when I went to church, I was at a special revival. This guy, I think it was Moody Adams, hinted at the evils that homosexuals perform in bathhouses and dark alleys. He couldn't, of course, tell us good people about it in church, as it was not suitable for the children in the room, but we could read all the sordid details in his book, available for purchase in the lobby. You wouldn't believe how all those good, decent, gawd fearing xtians lined up to buy copies of the smut! I didn't buy a copy, but borrowed someone else's. Wow..steamy to say the least. Funny how all of these pastors know so much about the gay lifestyle, huh? Not just the gay lifestyle in general, but the full on freak.
From what I saw on the AFTAH site, they are all about putting an end to homosexuality. A lot of money and time invested to stop consenting adults being gay. How about taking all that time and money and feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, or supporting random acts of kindness? I'd say to put a stop to pedophilia, but they like to blame that on the gays, too. *rolls eyes*
I've said it before: If you don't like gays, don't date 'em. And I now have to add: if gay BDSM bothers you, don't video tape it. Funny thing, now that I think of it: from the vantage point of some of the pics, those rogue xtians weren't just hiding in the bushes - they were right up in the thick of things. Now who needs a spanking?
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