A weepy, gushy post before I get back to regular blogging

I'm obsessed with song lyrics. Dawn Summers will say something, I'll answer with a song lyric, and then she'll say "do you have a song for everything?" Yes, yes I do. There are some lyrics that can be used again and again for different situations, so let me quote this Kanye West line for the second time on this blog: "They say you never know what you got till it's gone, I know I got it, I don't know what y'all on".

Man, do I have it good. I don't live a charmed life, and I recognize that sometimes things can go very, very badly, but in general, and in the people I have chosen to surround myself with, I got it made. On a cold Monday night, I performed on a stage for the first time in my adult life (I had minor roles in high school plays which I don't believe count). The audience was filled with people I just adore:

My mom (who, I must admit I felt some concern about when the last performer did a piece called "Haggard the Faggard" and simulated masturbation) and my awesome brother (who when approached to record an audience segment, despite being extremely private and kind of shy, went along with it. When I asked him why later, he said he thought I would've wanted him to.).

Dawn Summers was first to arrive and, despite the fact that she's an evil liberal who was rooting against me (playfully), when I asked her to run out and get me a slice of pizza as I hadn't eaten all day, she did with no complaint (the fact that she ran into Peter on the way there and essentially made him get it is neither here nor there.).

Speaking of Peter, I'm generally much mushier about my friends than about my man, but wow, he's just the greatest. I don't know how you all survive without a Peter in your life, but I wish you the best of luck with that.

My beautiful guy friends, SMVP (who had to go back to work after the show!!), "The Dude" (previously called MKID or Matty) and Frank White. Man, I only realized later that I had asked the fellas to come out on a Monday night...Monday Night Football Night! I can't believe they showed, I didn't know they'd chance missing football for anything.

I've written before that I stay friends with exes. My last boyfriend was there last night. He's opening a new business and getting married in the summer. Stay friends with your exes, people, just trust me.

PN, Ari, Lisa-- the girls totally rock. I can't wait for summer and to go back to Hold 'Em games on the balcony.

And a really big thanks to people who didn't have to be there, meaning they wouldn't be getting my hard look if they didn't show up. Thanks Robert, Julia, Quickjustice, and Tatyana. So cool of you guys to come.

The show was really fun to do. Like I note in the first paragraph, I'm obsessed with lyrics so I thought it would be fun to talk about the current political situation using hip-hop lyrics. My piece was called "Better Living Through Hip-Hop", a play on "Better Living Through Chemistry". I think my biggest laugh line, one that might be familiar to my readers, was when I said "What would the world be without America? Who would step in when something goes wrong? France?" and then played the Jay-Z song "99 Problems" cued to the line "You know the type, loud as a motorbike, but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruitfight." Also when I said that America isn't much liked and played 50 Cent's "Life on the Line": "Nobody likes me and that's ok, cause I don't like y'all anyway, no I don't like y'all anyway."

The audience voted on the best piece and I won, and yes I realize it's because most of the audience were my friends and family members. I then got to pick a partner for the quiz portion of the show and I chose Evan Coyne Maloney. We crashed and burned in this segment, mostly because we couldn't follow instructions about when to ring the bell (it might be because of the wine he and I downed during the intermission) and also because the judges refused to accept "Victoria 'Posh Spice' Beckham" as an answer to "Which movie stars attended the TomKat wedding?" They claim she's not a movie star. I'm saying they clearly didn't see Spiceworld.

Anyway, great time all around, I think most of the people that attended had fun and I would encourage y'all to check out a future "News To Me" segment sometime.

Pictures are here and here.