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Saturday, October 30, 2004

 
11:47 PM: quicktrip [#] [0]

unlike leopoldo's lushly detailed vermont trip report, my seattle trip report (god, was that last week?) will be brief, except for one extended rant:

1. thanks for hosting, xie & susan!
2. dinner w/ monica & dan (hi!)
2. dan's pazuzu play (ee!)
3. twilight zone (& i finally got to meet maggie!)
4. scifi museum (meh.)
5. the lovecraft plays: after getting to the open circle theatre and reading one of the two programs they had to share amongst the 8 or so audience members, 10 minutes after the show was supposed to start the stage manager comes out and says, "i'm sorry. because there are so few people here tonight and we don't want to make you uncomfortable, we're going to cancel the show if that's okay with you." what? no, of course it's not okay! make -us- uncomfortable? so i raise my hand and say, "we're from portland. this is the only night we can be here." and he looks at us for several very long anguished moments before he says, "well, i'll go ask." so he goes backstage and the silence is deafening. when he returns 10 minutes later, he says, "i'm sorry, i'm sorry. but we're still going to cancel. i hope you can make it to another show." and he won't look any of us in the eye. every time i tell this story the first thing someone says is "what happened to 'the show must go on'?" i am still seething about this: even if they had left a note on the door cancelling it would not have been nearly as horrifying.
6. i still like carmelita's.
7. and the graphic novel persepolis.
8. got home with enough time to unpack, check email, and pick up leopoldo from the airport.