Fan Girl Geekiness
I don't know how I am expected to work today.
I am going to see my future husband, my ultimate writer, my favorite author on the face of the entire planet tonight: David Sedaris.
A quote:
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
My mom and people who don't read him ask me why I laugh so hard I fall over when I read his books. Oldest Daughter will read him aloud to me, and we have to stop periodically and catch our breath. When I was reading him while getting my haircut, I had two women cross over in the beauty parlor to ask me WHAT ON EARTH I was reading that could be so funny.
I don't know. Humor is so subjective, but his wit is so sharp, and there's always a moment of pathos--a single moment that makes your heart stop for a moment, before it all goes to hilarity again. He is a writer who can make a person come alive in a single sentence. And as a woman whose gay friends outnumber her straight by a long mile, I appreciate the love he has for Hugh and wish the whole wide world would just accept gay people for who they are and let them get married, for God's sake.
I love David Sedaris and tonight, I get to go see him in a small theater, where I will be the woman in the 5th row laughing until the men in white coats come and haul me away.
I am so excited, I don't know if I can work today. Do you have an author like that?
P.S. If I am not here tomorrow, I have run away with him.
I am going to see my future husband, my ultimate writer, my favorite author on the face of the entire planet tonight: David Sedaris.
A quote:
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
My mom and people who don't read him ask me why I laugh so hard I fall over when I read his books. Oldest Daughter will read him aloud to me, and we have to stop periodically and catch our breath. When I was reading him while getting my haircut, I had two women cross over in the beauty parlor to ask me WHAT ON EARTH I was reading that could be so funny.
I don't know. Humor is so subjective, but his wit is so sharp, and there's always a moment of pathos--a single moment that makes your heart stop for a moment, before it all goes to hilarity again. He is a writer who can make a person come alive in a single sentence. And as a woman whose gay friends outnumber her straight by a long mile, I appreciate the love he has for Hugh and wish the whole wide world would just accept gay people for who they are and let them get married, for God's sake.
I love David Sedaris and tonight, I get to go see him in a small theater, where I will be the woman in the 5th row laughing until the men in white coats come and haul me away.
I am so excited, I don't know if I can work today. Do you have an author like that?
P.S. If I am not here tomorrow, I have run away with him.
Labels: David Sedaris
posted by Erica Orloff at 7:15 AM
27 Comments:
That would make for an odd relationship, but stranger things have happened.
Mark:
My oldest daughter knows me better than any human being on the planet. She is convinced it would work. I am slightly less sure, but I am sure we could work it out. As long as he kept me laughing. Laughter, I am convinced, is the key to happiness.
E
Laughter, isn't that the famous line about why did you chose your husband? Because he made me laugh.
Okay Ass is in chair but I gotta get my mind on productive work...
I love your blog.
Well, I'm going to see Tess Gerritsen Oct 30, and I might just run off with her.
Maybe she's not as funny as David what's-his-name, but she carries a shrunken head around with her. So there.
Richmond:
See? As good a reason as any. :-)
E
Jude:
Cool! Where are you seeing her?
E
She'll be at The Bookmark in Atlantic Beach, 7PM, if her tour stays on schedule.
Jude:
Enjoy!!!!
E
You must take Demon with you. I can see a match made in heaven with David and Demon. As if he needs more fodder for his books.
Have a great time!
My favorite author? Hard to pick, but I'd narrow it down to 3: Lois McMaster Bujold, Tamora Pierce and David Weber. Great fantasy authors with kick ass women leads. Oh and Elizabeth Moon, too, especially Speed of Dark.
Sarah:
I don't know . . . the Sedaris is pretty Demonish. I visit a thread with people who have seen him live or at book signings. He is absolutely devilish. One story (sitting down?):
Clerk from B&N wants to get a book signed for his boss at B&N, who is out sick, to earn brownie points. Tells David Sedaris his boss's name is Dave.
"Is Dave gay?"
Clerk, puzzled, says, "No."
Sedaris signs the book, hands it to said clerk, who walks away, opens it, and finds he wrote, "Dear Dave, everyone at B&N is talking about what a homo you are."
Demonish.
E
LOL. No wonder you love him.
Have a great time!
sarah:
He's just so deadpan. Love him.
E
Thanks Melanie.
Any VISA news??????
E
I'm a MAJOR MAJOR Sedaris fan--I think he's BRILLIANT--he just totally gets it! And it's a dream of mine to see him someday!
Have a wonderful time tonight!
LOL, have a blast, Erica!
I don't understand the gay marriage thing. It was my biggest disappointment in Biden. Why in the world do people even care? Why are they so threatened by it?
Honestly, if you want to talk conspiracy theories, I wonder if the health insurance lobbyists, with too much money and too much power, find it's not profitable for them to let it happen.
alyson:
I knee you'd appreciate my adevtnures tonight.
E
spy:
Me, too (disappointed).
E
Thanks, Erica! Have a great time tonight!
I agree. I don't understand this bizarre obsession with other people's relationships. BUT I will say...I think a part of it is a genuine fear of "turning gay" and the social ostracizing that often comes with being gay.
I think this is true because sexual orientation isn't A or B, or perfect C (like 50/50 bi) People get even more upset about bisexuality because it admits there aren't just two options here.
I think most human beings have SOME even if just a teeny tiny bit of a bisexual leaning, and those that do tend to think being gay is a "choice" (because it's a theoretical choice FOR THEM)
And yeah, I know I probably either freaked out or pissed off about 90% of the people who just read my comment, lol.
Sexuality is a little more flexible than some wish it was, but by the same token it's inflexible. As in, if someone is gay, they can't 'shut it off' or choose not to be, anymore than a straight person can. But those straight people with a mild sexual attraction to the same sex often live in abject terror they're going to "catch" being Gay. And so they want to hide it away from the public.
When I was a teenager I was incredibly homophobic and pretty much "loved the sinner but hated the sin" etc. And I find women sexually hot too haha! So, for me, that was where that came from. And the more I studied sexuality and sexual orientation the more I came to understand these lines we have between straight and gay are not quite so sturdy as we sometimes like to believe, and that's okay.
I think the focus is all wrong. If we could truly make people understand that their sexual identity really can't be ripped away from them, they might be more accepting of others.
Ugh! I am so jealous! I am a major Sedaris fan! A friend and I once signed up for a bus trip to a reading of his in Philly, but it was canceled for some reason. We were devastated. It took a lot of Sake to make us feel better. I mean, a lot!
Zoe:
Not a single one of my gay friends had any choice in being gay. I have very specific theories about why people are homophobic, most of it revolving around an "ick" factor. Most men I know would gladly watch lesbian porn with two gorgeous females but the "ick" thought of what gay men actually do drives them over the edge. It's pathetically childish.
As for the spectrum . . . I think I probably float along it . . .my favorite lesbian crush is Tina Fey. Smart, funny. If I digged chicks in that way--she'd be my choice. But for now, I am content to go see Sedaris and dream of my gay husband. ;-)
E
Robin:
I would be lost in a sake bottle too over that disappointment.
E
Yup, Biden squirmed when asked point blank if he was for/against gay marriage. For me I don't see the difference in saying a gay couple can't marry because they are gay vs. an interracial couple can't get married because they are from two different races. But America's memory is so fleeting...
Anyway, now I really have to check this guy out. I hope you two live happily ever after in the bookstore. There is no better place to live.
hahahahahahaha Yeah, Erica I wasn't suggesting that Gay people had a choice. Only Bi people have a choice. :P But even then they can't choose which one they like more. I'd say I'm about 80/20 percentage wise. I'm always going to prefer a guy, but it's not like I haven't had my girl crushes.
I agree with you on Tina Fey. I also think Aly Hannigan (Willow from Buffy) is pretty hot. It's funny cause me and my husband both are all about the same girl. He always thought Willow was hot.
You to David Sedaris is Me to Augusten Burroughs. I want to make baby Malibu's with him and Dennis and his marvelous Cow and Bentley canines. I tell my husband he can tag in on the action if he likes, but he just shakes his head "no".
I feel your love. :)
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