The Fun Home tour: A Different Light, LA
June 10th, 2006 | Uncategorized
Here I am last night at A Different Light, helping the bookstore guy to rig up an impromptu screen for my “reading.” Man. I thought I was done with the techno-geek stuff when I finished all the complicated computer work on Fun Home. But apparently not. Now in order to read, I have to lug around all this equipment–my laptop, a projector, cables–and I have to make sure bookstores are set up for me to do this powerpoint presentation.
It’s worth it, though. It’s really cool to project the story and narrate it to an audience. A very nice crowd came last night to A Different Light, even though the Dyke March was amassing at the same time. Soon after I finished, there was this tremendous roar of motorcycles from Santa Monica Boulevard. It was the Dykes on Bikes starting off the march. But I couldn’t even run to the door and watch because I had to finish signing books then rush off to the airport to catch a 10:20 flight to San Francisco. Which ended up not taking off until nearly midnight.
God, air travel is torture. Here I am as we sat on the tarmac waiting to go. At least I had all three seats to myself.
8 Responses to “The Fun Home tour: A Different Light, LA”
Ah ha hah! That happened to me last year.
We were giving a Powerpoint-assisted reading of stories from “Moxie My Sweet” at Confounded Books — it was the night of the Dyke March — as we were wrapping up the last story, the March started going by, so we closed the open door and kept going, and when we reached the end, which was a New Orleans jazz funeral (the uptempo return from the hill), I opened the door, and the cheering from outside fit in perfectly with the jolly music of the funeral. It couldn’t have been more perfect.
Sorry to hear about your flight delays, but so glad you’re coming to SF. I’m going to try to be at your Tuesday reading, and I think my girlfriend will be going to the Monday one. We’re really looking forward to it!
Great to see you blogging so much now!
Hmmm…are you flying American? I just toured on them, and it was standard for them to take off at least an hour late for every flight. A nightmare indeed!
Feel free to call me if you need a screen for any San Francisco shows — you can borrow mine. I’ll be out of town, but we can make arrangements with friends who have keys to my Castro apartment. My cell number’s 415-317-1805.
(BTW, I’ve followed your work since before DTWOF was a strip. And I’m an Obie. 🙂 But I don’t think we’ve ever met… oh, wait, maybe around 1990 at People Like Us in Chicago. I vaguely remember buying a mint-green t-shirt with the DTWOF crew on it.)
Oh yeah, flight delays or cancels are a real drag! Just went through that with a flight from Portland to Denver…….delayed for hours! Glad you are doing so much blogging as well.
Oh, I miss A Different Light! (I had to move away from LA). I’m gald you had a good time!
Speaking of geeky details.. the arm rests between seats in airplanes generally are removable. There’ll be a button or lever you hold while tilting it back. When you have all three seats to yourself, this trick makes it possible to at least get horizontal for a doze. Probably not comfortable enough to actually sleep, I admit.
The flights sound like hell. I was found myself, the night I read that, thinking, “what would I do in that situation?”
The armrests are stowable, not removable. They tilt back, or to the side for the end ones. Does anal-rentive have a hypen? LOL.