Bad Money + Big Funny
Posted Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Tonight at 7:30 the Bibli Ophelia hosts the launch of Erin Robinsong’s new book of poetry, Illegal Tender. It is said…
This collection is a speeding tunnel that connects the miniscule to the voluminous, where seeds hold entire cities, and whales have hearts the size of cars; where snowflakes are ice hotels and gravity is known to be the pull of a pearl at the centre of the world. As you vanish in and out of scenes, a fine silk thread spins out behind you, link-link-link.
It promises to be an interesting night of wine, cats and crackers.
This weekend is also a landmark one at the Metro Theatre (at least in my books), because Scott Thompson’s Scotastrophe is coming to town. Show starts at 8pm, tickets are $20 at Lyle’s Place.
Scottastrophe is basically a powerpoint presentation by Scott Thompson accompanied musically by Bob Wiseman and Magali Meagher. Like a good scientist, Scott steps back and investigates the unusual density of tragedy and surrealism to which he has been privy since ending The Kids in the Hall. Potential lawsuits about racism and sexual harassment on the set of Touched by an Angel, behind the scenes on The Larry Sanders Show and trying to play a straight man (or alien) on Star Trek. The firebombing of his Los Angeles home by inflamed supporters of Saddam Hussein. The near-death experience over Madagascar on an airplane probably populated by pedophiles. Insulting the Governer General of Ontario at the Griffin Poetry Awards by merely waving a very long, flexible prop. Naturally these things might be solved by finding the Hollow Earth Society, or else by giving a powerpoint presentation – you decide.
