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February 20, 2006
Luvul
Drop your head back and pretend you're a turkey drowning in the rain and say "Luvul". That's where The Alternative is - one of the sweetest gay gal spaces since The Planet. The owners, Kim and Gerine [like tangerine without the tan] are the hardest working gals in the business and in three years they've made the club a great performance space and local watering hold. If you are in the area of Louisville, dew drop in. That's what the place used to be called.
We had a great show and I'm only sorry I had to leave so early the next morning on a bizarre routing to Boston. I missed the Farm Equipment Show at the Fairgrounds and even worse, I missed the Tractor Pull. Next time I'm bringing my mesh cap and I'll be there - guarandamnteed.
Saturday night at the Somerville Theater was also a rip. Chris Guerrero and Ellen Friedman, who have produced me in Boston for 18 of my 25 years of performing, got some fine press in the Boston papers and even though it was a below freezing night, the crowd came out for a very hot time. It was like old homo week - old college friends, old students and teachers, lots of ex-nuns! Those old vaudeville stages bring out the raunchiest in me and the crowd egged me on. No friendly fired pellet guns were used, but they were mentioned.
Am back in Manhattan, packing up my think tank tops and trying to find my summer shorts for a ten day swing through Florida. And watching the Olympic curling for relaxation. I have a very slight Olymic fever, but otherwise, all is well.
February 15, 2006
Category Kate
On Saturday, I got out of New York's LaGuardia just before the big blizzard hit, dumping 29 inches and forcing our local weather people to lash themselves to bus stops everywhere. It's 51 and slushy now. The corners are impassable.
Clearly, I want Jonetta Jones' job on TWC. Why do weather channels play porn music?
But I digress. And generally I call it a show.
My destination was Indianapolis for a show at the gorgeous Clowes Hall at Butler University. In addition to the fabulous opening act, Dino Sierp, the producer suprised me with an encore of 25 gifts delivered by five dogs who had been trained by a local organization [ICAAN]. Think pink dildo as dog toy. Prisoners from Indiana institutions train the dogs to live with the disabled and with troubled adolescents. The group named one of the puppy trainees after me - K.C. Puppy chow all around!
Broad hint to all of you. Kate or K.C. is a lovely name.
After that Indy high point, I met up with my galpal, Urvashi, in College Station, TX, the home of the George Bush the First library. Her parents were visiting from India. Not for the library. But to see her other sister and for a reunion.
So, yes, those of you with sharp timetable minds - I was there for the Dick Cheney shoot-em-up in Texas! It was a comedy gift for Valentines Day. And now people are mad that he didn't tell us anything or anything sooner? It was an accident, not a miracle. He has never told us anything. It's none of our beeswax. Be nice if the press were as due diligent about W.M.D.s, secret energy commissions, wiretapping as they are about this "accident".
Don't want to harsh your mellow! It's Susan B. Anthony's Birthday today. Tra la!
February 09, 2006
Fact Checker!
One time I got an email from a woman who told me that she did not appreciate being pointed at during my show. And she appreciated it even less when I called her a "fat chick."
I was stunned. I've got my own body image issues and I could not imagine that I'd done something like that.
Turns out, during that show, some woman had been correcting me - and who knew from Norway or Finland? - but I'm not the president - and after about the third time she yelled something out - and she was correct - I said, "Well, I'm glad the fact checker is here tonight."
Out in the ether of the net, there lurks another helpful fact checker, who kindly pointed out to me that Dino Sierp and Tracye Lea Lawson's names from the preceding blog, were spelled incorrectly.
My apologies and thanks to my careful reader for that and so much more.
Now I have to go on Oprah and take my lashings. Oh my, is it Lent already?
February 07, 2006
Hoosier Daddy?
The Santa Cruz show was a dang hoot. The night before the show in the Rios Theater, that 2000 year old mystic woman, Ramtha, had done a show there. But you knew that. There was still some woo-woo residue on the stage. The lovely and talented Tracy Lee Lawson, the former P.T. Barnum of women's culture in Santa Cruz - radio! shows! newspapers! she did it all - was kind enough to drive me to and fro. It was great to catch up with her. She's disconsolate about the SeaHawks and spells that Pittsburgh team with an "a".
Am in NYC, resting up for the show with Dino Sierpe in Indianapolis. Dino puts on a really big shue. Generally the theme is "Kate Clinton this is your life." and she drags some embarrassing bit of my past out of the closet. You don't know her name. You had the powers in the above paragraph. Not this one.
One year she dressed me up as a nun and made me run an auction for her. I was embarrassed that I had only gotten thirteen bucks for an old headband from Cris Williamson. So I said, "I'll throw in a kiss." From the back of the room, I heard, "Thirteen twenty-five."
This year, I predict, because I'm still feeling it from Santa Cruz, that by the end of the night we will all be bobbing for red clown noses in a big tub. Bring a towel.
February 02, 2006
The L Word Redux
We asked you what you thought of Kate's appearance on The L Word, and it was great to hear from all of you. Feel free to let Showtime know what you thought, too, eh? Thanks!
February 01, 2006
And we're off!!
Saturday, January 28 we kicked it off in Long Beach to a sold old, to the rafters house. All systems were go, thanks to my excellent team, Tam and Michele and the StandOut producer, Andrea Meyerson! She also filmed the show for posterity - it's in the can - and we hope to have a tour documentary for you by 2007. After the show, NCLR and StandOut hosted a post-show lesbo schmooze fest which went on to the wee hours, as Andrea's partays often do.
Next day in San Diego, the Women's Chorus celebrated my 25th and the release of their first new CD. It was a matinee which I love because the older I get, the earlier my shows are - I'm aiming for the Grand Slam breakfast show at Denny's! Because the lights were brilliant, I didn't see the six women in the front row with L-Word red clown noses, or I would have tried to get them to snort them off during the show.
At the reception after I got to hang out with my niece, Madeliene, who is the only Clinton who has left the northern tundra of upstate New York. I told her her first joke when she was one day old. She asks me what it was.
Before going to Santa Cruz, I'm up in Denver with Urvashi who is here for business meetings. Quality time, dears, quality time. And we had to watch the sad state of the union together because it's too scary to do it alone.
Moment of silence for Coretta in the Black History Month. The shortest month and that's not right.
And Wendy Wasserstein.
She was funny.
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