Kelly's Fundariser and Et c.
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ceebeegeeFirst off, exciting news--Columbia wants to use me as an exam proctor! Yay for more money! They want me to start as soon as possible, so next week it is.
So the other night Kelly had her fundraiser for Ten Reasons I Can't Go Home with You. Last week she'd mentioned something about having people auctioned off her dates--I think I just assumed this would be like a group of us so I agreed to do it. Kelly was having second thoughts about it at one point, so I said "hey, we could body shots instead"--and I chose my outfit accordingly. My yellow sleeveless Ralph Lauren polo top, white pedal pushers, yellow espadrilles, and my yellow polka-dot Betsy Johnson cropped sweater. The sweater was to look demure if there was a date auction, the sleeveless polo top was for the body shots. Last night when Kelly called us up, I realize it was just Ben Holmes and me--as I stood up there, I was thinking "hmm, this...could be bad" but then I figured che posse fare? Ben went for $16 and I was just praying I could at least meet that. Well, Kelly has some chivalrous friends--she started the bidding at $10 and it was sort of piddling along until one guy shouted out what Kelly heard as "fifteen"--but it was actually fifty, if you can believe it. And then another guy topped him with $54. It was just like the box lunch auction in Oklahoma! I was thrilled and afterward I talked to both these guys for a while, and also gave them postcards for Thyme. Kelly had made an amazing amount of baked goods for the shindig, that I thought were reserved as raffle prized. No, she told me--the baked-good raffle prize was a custom-made thing (if you won, she would make you whatever you wanted), the stuff on display was for all of us. My jaw dropped open--the room was STUFFED with yumminess, including this cracktastic peanut-butter brownies. I could not stay away from them! As I told Billy Mitchell, "as we used to say on my cruise ship contract, these are so good--I want to fuck them." (On the ship, you develop a weird relationship with food, since it's so proscribed. Limited eating before shows, no food available after shows, no food in cabins, etc.) There was a lot of stuff left over, and I was allowed to cart away as much as I liked [/gloat]. *AND* Kelly said I didn't have to win a raffle for her to make me something, she would do it anyway (after July!). Kelly, I've been thinking this over and what I would like are these yummy-ass Irish car bomb cupcakes (minus the John Deere hats, of course!). So yeah, yesterday I nommed quite a bit on Kelly's amazing baked goods.
I also got to chat with Jason Wynn, whose cabaret I've seen before and who I find terribly talented. He has something to do with Kelly's show, not sure what, but he is a terrific composer. Chris cariker walked in but I didn't get a chance to say hey to him.
I saw Moose Hall's Comedy of Errors last night--very, very well-done, I was impressed. Jodie Pfau, Holla Holla's Juliet, was Luciana and of course did a fantastic job.
So the other night Kelly had her fundraiser for Ten Reasons I Can't Go Home with You. Last week she'd mentioned something about having people auctioned off her dates--I think I just assumed this would be like a group of us so I agreed to do it. Kelly was having second thoughts about it at one point, so I said "hey, we could body shots instead"--and I chose my outfit accordingly. My yellow sleeveless Ralph Lauren polo top, white pedal pushers, yellow espadrilles, and my yellow polka-dot Betsy Johnson cropped sweater. The sweater was to look demure if there was a date auction, the sleeveless polo top was for the body shots. Last night when Kelly called us up, I realize it was just Ben Holmes and me--as I stood up there, I was thinking "hmm, this...could be bad" but then I figured che posse fare? Ben went for $16 and I was just praying I could at least meet that. Well, Kelly has some chivalrous friends--she started the bidding at $10 and it was sort of piddling along until one guy shouted out what Kelly heard as "fifteen"--but it was actually fifty, if you can believe it. And then another guy topped him with $54. It was just like the box lunch auction in Oklahoma! I was thrilled and afterward I talked to both these guys for a while, and also gave them postcards for Thyme. Kelly had made an amazing amount of baked goods for the shindig, that I thought were reserved as raffle prized. No, she told me--the baked-good raffle prize was a custom-made thing (if you won, she would make you whatever you wanted), the stuff on display was for all of us. My jaw dropped open--the room was STUFFED with yumminess, including this cracktastic peanut-butter brownies. I could not stay away from them! As I told Billy Mitchell, "as we used to say on my cruise ship contract, these are so good--I want to fuck them." (On the ship, you develop a weird relationship with food, since it's so proscribed. Limited eating before shows, no food available after shows, no food in cabins, etc.) There was a lot of stuff left over, and I was allowed to cart away as much as I liked [/gloat]. *AND* Kelly said I didn't have to win a raffle for her to make me something, she would do it anyway (after July!). Kelly, I've been thinking this over and what I would like are these yummy-ass Irish car bomb cupcakes (minus the John Deere hats, of course!). So yeah, yesterday I nommed quite a bit on Kelly's amazing baked goods.
I also got to chat with Jason Wynn, whose cabaret I've seen before and who I find terribly talented. He has something to do with Kelly's show, not sure what, but he is a terrific composer. Chris cariker walked in but I didn't get a chance to say hey to him.
I saw Moose Hall's Comedy of Errors last night--very, very well-done, I was impressed. Jodie Pfau, Holla Holla's Juliet, was Luciana and of course did a fantastic job.
