Consolation Prize
If we can stay awake and the band doesn’t cancel, we’ll be going to see Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Friday night at Neumo’s. This is an exciting group of 10 - 13 musicians based in New York. We first heard them at our Bumbershoot festival 2 years ago, and got to see them again at Chop Suey.
With some trepidation, I again paid multiple “convenience fees” and “handling charges” in order to buy tickets online from Tickets West, but I’d rather do this and have a leisurely Friday evening prior to the event instead of going and standing in line at the venue after working a full day. The smart rats, they don’t hit the same button that gives them the electric shock more than once. I hate the smart rats, I think they’re elitists.
I mean, them and their hoity-toity E-Vo-Lu-Tion. Pah. There were myriad noble species, species with resolute genetic principles, damnit, which perished while the cringing Australopithecus and his opposable thumb survived, then flourished. The awesome dentition of Tyrannasaurus Rex undone by the stunted appendage that couldn’t even claim “finger”status. We know what Australopithecus did with his opposable thumb, and its development was directly traceable to the frequency of “headaches” in Mrs. Australopithecus. In short, he survived because he avoided being brained by Mrs. Australopithecus. This evolutionary quirk is honored in ritual re-enactments in strip clubs throughout the land. Thus, it’s not because of the bared female flesh that fundamentalists so vehemently oppose strip clubs, it’s because of the homage to a vision of humanoid evolution that they simply do not wish to countenance.
Anyway, I bought the tickets, and I await the judgment of natural selection.
