SO in lieu of theatrical offerings found a local burlesque show to attend tonight. Good, a couple of the dancers exceptional, real beauty, older (and being older I prefer to see beauty a little closer my age...something just wrong about admiring 20 year old girls...), an adequate comedic magician MC who competently executes a variety of tricks I know, this, in itself, I hate, as I prefer to seriously and very incompetently attempt my wizardry with conjuring, thunder, and dragons, but grudgingly credit where credit is due, not my thing, but since he managed to finish most of his tricks without everybody guessing I guess he's got me beat...
And more dancers, sexy fare, stripteases leaving a bit to the imagination, and real women, not flawless but beautiful women, and it's been a long while ...
The venue, well, thanks for hosting, but it's a shame to see talent so marginalized in shithole makeshift theaters in dire bars and pubs, really, If I ever find diamonds my first charity will be the arts community of Calgary, this city really needs a heart and soul ... and the crowd, perhaps 40, 50 people, mostly friends of the performers, recognizing a few of them from some of Calgary's darker alternative venues, Kink Nights, a bit sad that in a city of a million the entire alternative community comprises a mere 40 or 50 people, on a good, great, night, maybe a hundred or two. But that's Calgary.