Another Borough

Natanyah and I ventured into Queens (well, Queens-lite, Long Island City) on Saturday night to see Catie perform stand-up. The audience was quite small, but I think that's what you get for planning an event at a tiny performance space attached to a burrito shack. Natanyah snagged seats for us, and I ordered drinks and tried to avoid stepping on the huge white cat that wandered about aimlessly and seemingly ownerless-ly. A large and rather scary man named MoFo strolled into the performance halfway through and then proceeded to stare intently at various audience members. After the show, we introduced ourselves to several good-natured, shaggy-haired comedians and the girls who love them.

The comedy itself was universally quite high quality. There were some very good bits, and Catie later told me that several of the guys who performed are poised to make it very big, very soon. So maybe this was the closest to real celebrity-spotting I'll come in New York.

That said, one otherwise very good performer said something onstage that he needs to change immediately if he really hopes to take his show on the road. His act was all spot-on, except, he mentioned during his performance that Iowa is the Buckeye State. Terrible faux pas! This ostensibly nice guy is going to be attacked my an angry mob of Ohioans if he keeps this up! I meant to tell him this after the show in order to stem his eventual assault by Ohio natives (and also Iowans, proud members of the Hawkeye State), but I temporarily lost interest and focus and then he was gone.

On the bright side, I guess it's good that he didn't call Iowa the Lone Star State, or then he would really be headed for some future carnage.