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FiftyFive ~ # 32 (again)
It might be suggested that a pantomime dame, a political cartoonist and a professor have little in common but this morning we all stood together, naked and laughing at the absurdity of it. And in its own way there was a meeting of minds and ideas, for we all write. I was at the gym after today's first posting, getting myself ready for a day's writing and my companions were doing the same. The pantomime dame was the very, wonderfully camp, Bryan Ralfe, now appearing in Sinderella (yes that is the spelling and this is he: http://alternativepanto.com/cast/brian.html) and the politcal cartoonist was Steve Bell, seen in today's Guardian having a reply at the Pope's socially dubious "Your equality laws are unjust..." views http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2010/feb/03/equality-laws-pope-uk-visit and you have to click on this to see it for I can't infringe Steve's copyright. But the symmetry of the entire piece lay in me pointing out that we, standing in the buff as we were, could be the audience in Steve's cartoon, sitting with the Pope, watching Bryan's Sinderella, for it all fits - I am the portly one with the glasses sitting in front of the Pope. Of course exchanges like that can only really happen in the locker room. So I abandon Starbucks and Costa Coffee and pastry shops for real exchanges - locker room philosophy remains intact. Let's go swimming with Loudy:
It might be suggested that a pantomime dame, a political cartoonist and a professor have little in common but this morning we all stood together, naked and laughing at the absurdity of it. And in its own way there was a meeting of minds and ideas, for we all write. I was at the gym after today's first posting, getting myself ready for a day's writing and my companions were doing the same. The pantomime dame was the very, wonderfully camp, Bryan Ralfe, now appearing in Sinderella (yes that is the spelling and this is he: http://alternativepanto.com/cast/brian.html) and the politcal cartoonist was Steve Bell, seen in today's Guardian having a reply at the Pope's socially dubious "Your equality laws are unjust..." views http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2010/feb/03/equality-laws-pope-uk-visit and you have to click on this to see it for I can't infringe Steve's copyright. But the symmetry of the entire piece lay in me pointing out that we, standing in the buff as we were, could be the audience in Steve's cartoon, sitting with the Pope, watching Bryan's Sinderella, for it all fits - I am the portly one with the glasses sitting in front of the Pope. Of course exchanges like that can only really happen in the locker room. So I abandon Starbucks and Costa Coffee and pastry shops for real exchanges - locker room philosophy remains intact. Let's go swimming with Loudy:
