Bitch had twelve ponies. TWELVE
shogunhb took me to the circus yesterday evening. Whee! I had two bags of cotton candy which cost and obscene ten dollars a piece. Each bag came with a hat (both were given away to nearby children) and three layers of cotton candy: blue, yellow, and pink. Even though I love both cotton candy and lemon-flavored candies, I found the lemon cotton candy to be gross, so I also gave that away.
I shared more at the circus than I do most weeks. I love that sharing actually means 'giving stuff away that I don't like.' Plus, since I gave the cotton candy to this little girl behind us, it meant she obeyed me every time I turned around and gave her the 'Stop kicking my chair or I'll break your legs' glare. Though she might have done that without the cotton candy. I mean, a similar version of that glare worked on the kids behind us when we saw Deathrace 2000 and I sure as hell wasn't handing out candy that day.
Anyway, it was The Circus Does Broadway, hand to god. The opening act involved a big ensemble-wide song and dance number and shogunhb and I turned to each other to comment on how the costumes made us think of something straight out of the Wizard of Oz. Then I off-handedly made a comment from Into the Woods ("I was raised to be charming, not sincere") which made shogunhb realize that the ringmaster was the second prince from Into the Woods. He checked wikipedia when we got home to make certain of it. We're gonna stalk him sometime soon and see if he'll autograph the DVD for us.
Which now makes me wonder how much a ringmaster gets paid (or how little a Broadway star is). He's been The Beast, Jekyll & Hyde, and Javert. Keen, huh?
Then the last big ensemble number was all very The Lion King, with African animals and flowers and some creepy Ape- and Lion-god statues.
Lessee, fun acts. The first act made me think of how_low_am_i because it featured dogs running around doing tricks. They were cute. Except for the ugly one. What? It was a rat-dog. I don't like rat-dogs. It shoulda thought about that before it was a rat-dog. Then there was a woman with six white miniature ponies doing tricks. They were adorable and so I immediately turned to shogunhb to remind him that I still do not have a pony. And here is this random chick with six ponies. Six! And no sooner do I say that then six more ponies come trotting out to join the others. And there's this woman, standing in the middle of twelve show ponies, grinning at my pathetic ponylessness.
I have yet to stop harassing shogunhb about the injustice of her twelve-to-my-zero ponies.
The main storyline of the circus was a power struggle between the ringmaster and a clown named Tom. Tom keeps stealing the ringmaster's top hat (the source of all his power) and trying to put on other circus acts to prove his circus was just as cool as the ringmasters. For example, to counter the horse riding act, he had an act where goats rode ponies. Of course, I hissed, "even GOATS have ponies!" to shogunhb, but he is impervious to logic.
There was a second ensemble-wide number where Tom and the ringmaster tried to out-do one another. shogunhb liked this song, because it featured hot girls in costumes with attached handlebars (it was like a clown vs greasers number, complete with painted flames. I was half-amazed they didn't burst into 'Greased Lightning' halfway through). The clowns were on these giant bouncy tire-things and did awesome tricks on them, with Prodigy as their soundtrack, thus cementing me firmly on the side of the clowns. shogunhb believed in the clowns' cause, but was swayed by the fact that the ringmaster had all the hot chicks (wearing handlebars. This was apparently Very Important.)
There were trapeze artists and contortionists and tigers and elephants and stuff like that, but my favorite act was the caged sphere. There were guys on small motorcycles who drove in and then rode all around the sphere. Even understanding the physics involved (yay centrifugal force!) my heart was in my throat the whole time, especially as they kept adding people in and they started driving in counter-patterns. It was really cool.
In all, much fun and flailing was had by us both (save for the flaunting of TWELVE PONIES what the hell?!) and much cotton candy was had by me.
I love the circus.
I shared more at the circus than I do most weeks. I love that sharing actually means 'giving stuff away that I don't like.' Plus, since I gave the cotton candy to this little girl behind us, it meant she obeyed me every time I turned around and gave her the 'Stop kicking my chair or I'll break your legs' glare. Though she might have done that without the cotton candy. I mean, a similar version of that glare worked on the kids behind us when we saw Deathrace 2000 and I sure as hell wasn't handing out candy that day.
Anyway, it was The Circus Does Broadway, hand to god. The opening act involved a big ensemble-wide song and dance number and shogunhb and I turned to each other to comment on how the costumes made us think of something straight out of the Wizard of Oz. Then I off-handedly made a comment from Into the Woods ("I was raised to be charming, not sincere") which made shogunhb realize that the ringmaster was the second prince from Into the Woods. He checked wikipedia when we got home to make certain of it. We're gonna stalk him sometime soon and see if he'll autograph the DVD for us.
Which now makes me wonder how much a ringmaster gets paid (or how little a Broadway star is). He's been The Beast, Jekyll & Hyde, and Javert. Keen, huh?
Then the last big ensemble number was all very The Lion King, with African animals and flowers and some creepy Ape- and Lion-god statues.
Lessee, fun acts. The first act made me think of how_low_am_i because it featured dogs running around doing tricks. They were cute. Except for the ugly one. What? It was a rat-dog. I don't like rat-dogs. It shoulda thought about that before it was a rat-dog. Then there was a woman with six white miniature ponies doing tricks. They were adorable and so I immediately turned to shogunhb to remind him that I still do not have a pony. And here is this random chick with six ponies. Six! And no sooner do I say that then six more ponies come trotting out to join the others. And there's this woman, standing in the middle of twelve show ponies, grinning at my pathetic ponylessness.
I have yet to stop harassing shogunhb about the injustice of her twelve-to-my-zero ponies.
The main storyline of the circus was a power struggle between the ringmaster and a clown named Tom. Tom keeps stealing the ringmaster's top hat (the source of all his power) and trying to put on other circus acts to prove his circus was just as cool as the ringmasters. For example, to counter the horse riding act, he had an act where goats rode ponies. Of course, I hissed, "even GOATS have ponies!" to shogunhb, but he is impervious to logic.
There was a second ensemble-wide number where Tom and the ringmaster tried to out-do one another. shogunhb liked this song, because it featured hot girls in costumes with attached handlebars (it was like a clown vs greasers number, complete with painted flames. I was half-amazed they didn't burst into 'Greased Lightning' halfway through). The clowns were on these giant bouncy tire-things and did awesome tricks on them, with Prodigy as their soundtrack, thus cementing me firmly on the side of the clowns. shogunhb believed in the clowns' cause, but was swayed by the fact that the ringmaster had all the hot chicks (wearing handlebars. This was apparently Very Important.)
There were trapeze artists and contortionists and tigers and elephants and stuff like that, but my favorite act was the caged sphere. There were guys on small motorcycles who drove in and then rode all around the sphere. Even understanding the physics involved (yay centrifugal force!) my heart was in my throat the whole time, especially as they kept adding people in and they started driving in counter-patterns. It was really cool.
In all, much fun and flailing was had by us both (save for the flaunting of TWELVE PONIES what the hell?!) and much cotton candy was had by me.
I love the circus.