Life Parade

The gig we got conned into yesterday was something calling itself Life Parade, basically a crackpot collective from the fascist-left fringe. As is usual in such cases, public numbers were significantly lower than those of the state-financed sponsoring entities which, for some reason, people refer to as non-governmental organisations. There was the usual hysterical anti-employment demagoguery (Bolkestein, spelt of course with a Waffen “SS”) as well as the plain lunatic (t-shirts sloganned with “I don’t believe in the AIDS virus”), but the most bizarre aspect for me was that the mini-mob made grateful use of the Forum site, which, two years ago, they told us was symbolic of the evils of open-door capitalism.

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1. kalebeul » Why are tranny shows here crap? sez:
   May 21st, 2006 at 18:53

   [...] A while later, some of us did a cameo somewhere else in a tranny cabaret show. As S observed, tranny shows here (at least the ones that appear in public theatres with subsidies) are all the same and have more to do with religious ritual–Easter in Seville, Castro speeches–than art, intellect or invention: men acquire extravagant costumes, playback expertly to mediocre disco and musical tracks (imagine 13-year old girls at an end-of-term school performance), and end, hand on crotch, with a wistful reference to love; the audience cheer wildly and for no apparent reason and go away feeling even more tolerant and beautiful than they did betwixt their linen sheets that morning. [...]

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