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onefixedstarI was up at 7:30 this morning to say good-bye to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 letsemiotic_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?
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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Date: 2004-07-26 10:03 pm (UTC)Montreal
Date: 2004-07-27 06:17 am (UTC)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.