I take 50 mg of Toprol XL everyday to keep my aorta from splitting and killing me. One of the side effects of beta blockers is it fucks with your short-term memory. I read an article that they give it to trauma victims to keep them from remembering details of traumatic events. As such, I have been forgetting/missing things in normal conversation lately and am starting to feel like an airhead. In fact right now, I am mildly dizzy. Bleh.
There's this mildly retarded dude that haunts the improv world who has proclaimed men funnier than women based on last night's proceedings on the forums that my beloved husband provides at his own time/expense. I regret playing that show last night for this reason, that the ignorant youth of today might actually BELIEVE that was the point of that exercise. These sad, unfounded beliefs in male superiority are clearly the riches of the poor. Tonight at rehearsal I requested that we do "women's college, the musical," as I was feeling very nostalgic for my halcyon ladycollege days, where gender issues were unchallenged and men were seen and not heard, and my ladies made Mount Holyoke go coed on my ass... Instead of paying attention to the proceedings, I spent most of show racking my taxed memory for the name of Wellesley's founder. I could remember:
Smith: Sophia Smith
MoHo: Mary Lyon
Vassar: Matthew Vassar
Wellesley is Henry Fowle Durant! I knew that! Damnit!
So beta blockers have destroyed my ability to remember what someone said two minutes ago AND I can't remember Henry Fowle Durant. I'm usually brilliant at arcane snatches of trivia. Where is my mind?
Anyway, it's not about being sore losers re: B of Sexes. I missed Yo La Tengo last night for that crap! I could have been gazing longingly at James McNew! I am blowing off improv this Saturday for '90s indie rock. Sebadoh (original line-up) is playing and I can completely get with Lou, whose wife is a Smiffie, and who, when I met him, could barely handle a conversation with a woman who wasn't his wife. That's the kind of man who entertains me and makes me smile.
Posted by Zerd at April 8, 2007 09:37 PM