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My show went great!! Nightfly <\/a>came with his girlfriend – I’ve never met either of them – so that was SO cool and it was just so nice that they made the effort to come out. Thanks, guys!<\/p>\n Also – it just goes to show you that a little self-publicity works – because a woman who reads me (but hasn’t yet commented) came to the show, just on the basis of my own post about it. SO NICE!!!! It took me a second to even realize that that was what had happened. “Wait a second … you just … read about it on my site … and decided to come? Do you comment on my blog? No? Uhm … what???’ So so nice! Also, she was with a guy who looks so damn familiar that I am still haunted by it. He said he had the same feeling – so I know it will come to me at 3 am where I had met him before.<\/p>\n Anyway – it was so so nice that you all came out. Truly! It meant a lot.<\/p>\n David was there, with my good friends Bill and Bob.<\/p>\n Bob seemed rather morose afterwards. The piece had troubled him. He has a teenage daughter. David (who … uhm … WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT HIM??) – he’s now seen the damn piece 3 times, and so he can give me a play-by-play critique of how it was different from the other times … he’s really seen the piece develop. But anyway, David said to Bob, “So … what did you think of Sheila’s piece?”<\/p>\n Bob said, morosely, “I think women need to be protected. I feel like they need to be driven around in armored cars.”<\/p>\n I’m sorry – I started laughing hysterically as I typed that out.<\/p>\n It was SUCH a funny and heartfelt response. Speaking as the father of a teenage girl. Wanting to protect her from future heartache, etc. It was hysterical. I mean – not hysterical that he was so upset – but it was hysterical (and beautiful) that that was his response to the piece. It was also hysterical just HOW he said it. His eyes were on the TV (we were out in a bar) – he didn’t look at me, or move his eyes, his face didn’t change – but then he came out with THAT.<\/p>\n This other woman came up to me in the lobby and started shouting at me about how her ex-fiance still lived in her neighborhood, and how she couldn’t avoid seeing him, and how much it pissed her off, and how he looked like so many other people, so she kept THINKING she saw him … She didn’t even say “Good show.” to me – it was AWESOME. People just randomly come up to me and start talking about their own relationships, or whatever. It’s so great! This happens all the time when I do the piece, and it’s one of my favorite parts of the experience: people come up to me and start talking about themselves. Best. Response. Ever. Anyway, she just HAD to tell me about her ex-fiance living in her neighborhood – and she went on and on, and her voice got louder, and more annoyed, and I asked, innocently, “When did you guys break up?” She replied, “15 years ago.” Long silence. Craig then said, with a deadpan face, “But you’re over it, right?” Long pause – then we all just BURST into laughter.<\/p>\n So. Back to business. No, I have not been locked up in an armored car for the last 3 days – despite Bob’s recommendation – I’ve been tromping around Philadelphia, getting a bit sunburnt … and I was able to visit the haunts of all my favorite dudes!!!<\/p>\n And I just need to say this:<\/p>\n In my hotel, there was a sign in the lobby that said, exactly:<\/p>\n Please ……. I found the ellipses fascinating. I kept saying it in my head – the way it was written. It wasn’t just dot-dot-dot … It was 7 dots. Yes. I counted. It made it seem like they had been pleading with customers over and over to put on shirts and shoes and finally had been reduced to begging. PLEASE …. I BEG YOU … PUT ON A DAMN SHIRT!<\/p>\n There’s a hell of a lot of EMOTION in that long long ellipses.<\/p>\n I am now home – only to find that my DVD of the first season of Grey’s Anatomy<\/i> has arrived! So I am going to climb into bed, put on pajamas, put aloe on my damn sunburn, and lose myself in a necessary escape. I’m burnt out right now. Literally.<\/p>\n Oh wait. I’ll put on pajamas before <\/i>I climb into bed.<\/p>\n I am fried.<\/p>\n More on Philly later.<\/p>\n I used to live in Philadelphia so there’s always this strange rather disorienting sense of deja vu when I go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a few words: My show went great!! Nightfly came with his girlfriend – I’ve never met either of them – so that was SO cool and it was just so nice that they made the effort to come out. … Continue reading
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