revafisheye: March 2006

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Chicken Heels

Reveling in the Carolina sunshine and a show-well-done (in my new p'jams)

at the Sports Experience Holiday Inn, Chapel Hill

Chicken Ranch returned to UNC-CH for the annual Carolina Comedy Festival, featuring the likes of Lewis Black and Nick Hornby. This is our second year at the fest, and oh, how we love those Carolina folks. Jonathon, Andrew, Brian, Andrew and Brian, and the rest of the CUAB gang make us feel like rock stars. Angela my best friend Angela, apparently had nothing to do with the festival this year, but I think she undersells herself.

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Me, Amy (noon) and Angela (3) on the stage of the newly "transformed" Memorial Auditorium

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Oh, and Nick Hornby is my new imaginary boyfriend.*

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*temporarily taking the place of Stephen Merchant, sidekick/writing partner of Ricky Gervais. What can I say? I'm fickle when it comes to funny Brits.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Haunted by the ghost

of Shane MacGowan.

Jen's boyfriend, Gary, got us into the sold-out Pogues show

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48th row, center

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The Pogues stir it up on St. Patty's Eve

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Can you see the striped scarf? It's draped over Shane MacGowan's shoulders. He staggered, howled, and slurred something about Brokeback Mountain for two hours, never losing his feet.

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If Shane MacGowan had been sitting where we were, this is what I believe he would have seen.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the near debilitating inebriation of Mr. MacG, the Pogues put on a bloody good show; though by the time we left the venue, I felt as if I'd been rubbernecking.

Bittersweet.