{"id":329,"date":"2004-01-12T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-10-09T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T17:02:55","slug":"family-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Family Pride: Siobhan’s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister’s show last night was wonderful. It was like old-home week, too: a bunch of Rhode Islanders showed up, a bunch of Siobhan’s friends from college, I saw a couple of people I haven’t seen in a long time. It was wonderful. To have everyone come together in support for Siobhan. And Bill McCabe showed up too<\/a>! That was awesome. It was a good crowd, a good mix.<\/p>\n

Siobhan looked gorgeous, she sounded great. She played a couple of new songs. And, hooray, she played “161”, one of my all-time favorites. There are 162 games in a baseball season, and she wrote this song as an ode of hope and longing, a song of Red Sox love, after opening day of 2002.<\/p>\n

One game done and hope abounds<\/p>\n

and I’m already hearing World Series sounds. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That one quote alone explains the entire Red Sox fan psyche.<\/p>\n

There is a ghost of Babe Ruth floating over Fenway. Lyrics here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Everybody got very into it. Great to hear the guffaws of laughter throughout the room.<\/p>\n

Everyone’s a baseball fan.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, we all went over to the Parkside Lounge, sat in a corner, drank beer, ate an alarmingly large volume of Chex Mix, watched the snow coming down, blowing across Houston like wraiths, and talked like maniacs. There was some kind of a burlesque show going on in the back – so as we had our conversation, random phrases from the burlesque MC came out to our ears.<\/p>\n

“Do you like The Onion?”
\n“Oh my God, I read it every day…”
\n“It’s hilarious – I’ve been reading them for years…”<\/p>\n

“COME ONE! COME ALL! COME AND LOOK AT SOME BOOBIES!”<\/i><\/p>\n

There would be a pause in our conversation. We were stunned into silence. After one of these interjections, I said, “Boobies<\/i>??”<\/p>\n

They actually said the word “boobies<\/i>“, which seems rather juvenile. Isn’t a burlesque show supposed to be a bit more erotic, a bit more … suggestive?<\/p>\n

The MC, by the way, was a woman who was no larger than 4 feet tall, wearing very thick glasses, and a man’s suit. A man’s grey suit. She came over to our table and said, “Burlesque show starting in the back in one minute<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

It was so specific. One minute<\/i>.<\/p>\n

But we preferred to stay over by our Chex Mix, and watch the snow coming down outside, than see some …. boobies.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is our loss.<\/p>\n

But anyway – it was a wonderful night. Very proud of my younger sister. Very proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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