Not all performances are admired for their artful implications or grace. Then the first dude told him, ‘You’re just saying that because you wanna fuck her.’ Then those two argued about my humor and fuckability for a minute or two.” Then another dude in the audience defended me by saying I was funny. “An audience member told me I wasn’t funny and that feminism was ruining America.
We still talk about this performance and mindlessly buy tickets everywhere to whatever Off-Vegas show is playing just so we can watch a live garbage fire unfurl before our eyes. He forgot some parts, so he simply yelled earlier lines whenever he got flustered. In between the dancing segments, a white rapper stood on a large block to discuss the importance of labor unions. It was like those white people in infomercials dropping bowls of food. My friends and I once witnessed a show in which several dancers were thrown into the air, and their intentioned receivers clumsily dropped them. The brochures for these spectacles boast such reviews as “Loosely based on the hit Cirque du Soleil” and “Nothing like you’ll see in Vegas!” Tickets are cheap, and for $5 extra, you get VIP seats, which are in the front row and come with champagne. You mean we can get steak, eggs, beer and a stripper at the same place for $10 total?īut the part of Reno they love more than anything else is the casino shows. My friends love joining me because they view Reno as a cheap-thrills utopia.
Whenever I visit my hometown of Reno, Nevada, I bring some of my Bay Area friends with me. Photo courtesy of Ben Becker/ Flickr (CC)