..:. Cracking My Vainpot .:..

Well well well. I'm starting to think there's really nothing that can't happen here in Kansas City.

At a new Paul Taylor dance performance couple of months ago, I saw 2 boys kissing on stage at a high school theater.

Last weekend, this dizzy girl showed me her p*ssy at a straight bar.

This week, we got to see some flag burning at the world premiere of John Brown.

Not in a million years could I have imagined an opera about 19th century Kansas.

But there it was, a 3.5 hour-long brand new production narrating the anti-slavery efforts of controversial abolitionist hero John Brown, who would probably be labelled as a terrorist had he lived in post-9/11 modern days.

Never mind the "God created one race to lead and another to follow" singing dialogues.
Never mind the parades of Warren Jeffs Mormon-like prairie dresses.
Never mind the Arias praising the "lovely appearance of death".
Never mind its complete lack of musicality.
Never mind the fact that this tedious premiere may also be its last showing!

I'm just amazed to find out that the Kansas City region was right in the middle of the anti-slavery tipping point in American history!! That John Brown led a series of murders and raids that eventually triggered the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

To see this story playing out on stage in KC itself was just a unique experience.

This shit hole is special~ :)