Since my main activity these days is hanging out with a three-year-old, I don't go out on the town as much anymore. In the company of my son, a serious trainspotter, I've learned to get my kicks from counting Alberta Wheat Pool boxcars (Alec is a fan of reading "Canpotex" over and over - he just thinks it's a funny word). You know you've sat at too many train crossings when you actually begin to recognize the work of different graffiti artists - people who probably live as far away as Ontario but whose tags ride the rails through my neighbourhood on a daily basis.
This may not sound like much fun - but hey, as three-year-old obsessions go, it could be much worse. Sometimes, though, I have these faint but glorious memories of the time I spent out in Calgary's hipster scene long ago. Even now, a fair-sized chunk of my identity owes its existence to that now-buried decade of, among other things, late-night artsy escapades. So when I heard that Hot Nuts & Popcorn was scheduled for a brief renaissance - and just a few blocks away in the Loose Moose Theatre at the Crossroads Market - I knew I couldn't miss it. ...
This may not sound like much fun - but hey, as three-year-old obsessions go, it could be much worse. Sometimes, though, I have these faint but glorious memories of the time I spent out in Calgary's hipster scene long ago. Even now, a fair-sized chunk of my identity owes its existence to that now-buried decade of, among other things, late-night artsy escapades. So when I heard that Hot Nuts & Popcorn was scheduled for a brief renaissance - and just a few blocks away in the Loose Moose Theatre at the Crossroads Market - I knew I couldn't miss it. ...
Twelve years ago at the Garry Theatre in Inglewood, this late-night talk show hosted by Eric Amber and Derek Flores was the best fun in town. But as Eric & Derek pointed out last night, there doesn't seem to be much of a record of those hilarious shows. This morning, I went digging through my old drawing books, and it looks like I didn't do much in the way of "graphic recording" there - which just tells you how funny HN&P was, if it was enough to keep me from taking illustrated notes (something I usually do out of pure reflex, just about wherever I am). I did find a 2001 strip featuring Eric & Derek in a rather irreverent production of Macbeth from the same era (below). (And yes, I did really work as a flight attendant.)
Last night's show was so delicious that I think we'll just have to go back again for the next - and last - performance. Even when my son woke me up at 7 this morning after my three hours of sleep (to talk about the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe), I was still happy I went! But now I'm going to have a nap.
Last night's show was so delicious that I think we'll just have to go back again for the next - and last - performance. Even when my son woke me up at 7 this morning after my three hours of sleep (to talk about the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe), I was still happy I went! But now I'm going to have a nap.
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