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Dinner out with friends - $100
Tickets to the performance - $40
Learning how to say “AHH! VAGINA!” in Phillipino… priceless.
On Saturday night, Paul and I drove with a couple of our friends up to WeHo to see a performance by Alec Mapa. For those of you who have never heard of him, he is a freaken’ RIOT! He and his backup cheerleaders (backup cheerleaders?) came out on stage to a Britneyesque routine to Avril LaVigne’s Girlfriend. That set the tone for the rest of the roller-coaster of a performance. He is crude, vulgar, bawdy, and down-n-out gut-wrenchingly funny. One of Mapa’s true talents is the ability to combine humor with a smooth flow of story-telling. In his routines, he often begins telling a story of a serious tone that simply draws you in. He calms his voice, and in a Pied Piperish kinda way, lures you in for what will eventually be a jokefest smackdown. In one setup, he told us a really wonderful story that will stick with me.
While working on a cruise (a gay cruise, of course), he met an older gentleman who has worked at Disney for several decades. Being one of the early inventors at Disney, he is the gentleman responsible for, among other things, the design of the carts that travel through the Haunted House – etc. In short, we’re not talking about a park-sweeper, but one of the true pioneers of the theme park industry. The two of them hit it off and talked and talked until sunrise one morning. As the sun rose, the gentleman looked out and said, “I’ve been around for a long time. There are so many things to do in life, and so many more things I wanna do before I die – and no way I can ever do ‘em all. It is simply impossible… IMPOSSIBLE… to ever be bored.”
Wow. What a humbling and amazing observation.
Tickets to the performance - $40
Learning how to say “AHH! VAGINA!” in Phillipino… priceless.
On Saturday night, Paul and I drove with a couple of our friends up to WeHo to see a performance by Alec Mapa. For those of you who have never heard of him, he is a freaken’ RIOT! He and his backup cheerleaders (backup cheerleaders?) came out on stage to a Britneyesque routine to Avril LaVigne’s Girlfriend. That set the tone for the rest of the roller-coaster of a performance. He is crude, vulgar, bawdy, and down-n-out gut-wrenchingly funny. One of Mapa’s true talents is the ability to combine humor with a smooth flow of story-telling. In his routines, he often begins telling a story of a serious tone that simply draws you in. He calms his voice, and in a Pied Piperish kinda way, lures you in for what will eventually be a jokefest smackdown. In one setup, he told us a really wonderful story that will stick with me.
While working on a cruise (a gay cruise, of course), he met an older gentleman who has worked at Disney for several decades. Being one of the early inventors at Disney, he is the gentleman responsible for, among other things, the design of the carts that travel through the Haunted House – etc. In short, we’re not talking about a park-sweeper, but one of the true pioneers of the theme park industry. The two of them hit it off and talked and talked until sunrise one morning. As the sun rose, the gentleman looked out and said, “I’ve been around for a long time. There are so many things to do in life, and so many more things I wanna do before I die – and no way I can ever do ‘em all. It is simply impossible… IMPOSSIBLE… to ever be bored.”
Wow. What a humbling and amazing observation.
