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I was up at 7:30 this morning to say good-bye to

semiotic_trader before he left for work. It's a little bit earlier than I'd normally choose to get up, and quite a bit earlier than I'd normally get up after staying up until 2am editing a survey, but hey, I've got four or five hours on the train to catch up on sleep. Work? What's that?

The weekend was relatively uneventful. Mostly we wandered the city and saw lots of pretty buildings and I once again chickened out on using what's left of my high school French and let

semiotic_trader and

a_just_society handle all public dealings. Not that I would have gotten to use much French anyway--at the first sound of my distinctly Anglophone accent, all good Francophone Montréalers would have immediately switched to English to avoid hearing the damage I was about to inflict on their language.

Last night we ventured out for the Queer Comics Show. Scott Thompson as host was disappointing, but the acts were mostly entertaining. Sociologist that I am, I couldn't help but notice the "Queer" crowd consistently almost entirely of gay men, with only a light sprinkling of lesbians. This seems to be a reoccuring theme anytime I go to any public gay space or event. I wonder if this social invisibility coincides with a certain amount of political invisibility?

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Scott Thompson, as a stand-up comic, hasn't seemed to realize that the "hey everyone, I'm gay!" joke is pretty old and uninteresting. Or at least, that's my take given what I've seen of his standup in recent years. Doing so at the Queer Comics Fest (if that's what he ran with) is basically destined to be disapointing, given that most of the audience's reaction would be, "and?"...

Yeah, I think it was partly that. We also had our suspicions that he'd perhaps had one too many martinis before the start of the second show...

Hey, did you happen to see "Glyph" there? They're a gay sketch duo, and I know they did Just for laughs last year. Maybe that was just stand-up. P.S., I've pieced together some clues that point to you being in Montreal. Fact or Fiction?

Fact when I posted this, fiction now. I'm back in a very wet TO. Had to return yesterday to teach my Monday night tutorial. This whole TAing thing really restricts my travel plans.

I didn't see "Glyph" there, but it was just stand-up so that my have been why. The Queer comics were Scott Capurro, Miss Peggy Lee, Eddie Sarfaty, and Sabrina Matthews. There were all good with the exception of Miss Peggy Lee, whose performance I didn't quite understand. I think that I (and my brother and brother-in-law) were missing some vital reference that was key to making it funny. Fortunately, that performance was also very short.