Note: in university, I ended up playing a role as a doctor that turns young girls into metallic pop starlets in a show called “Mz. Kitty, Teenage Dominatrix” in Vancouver. The show also helped launch Stink Mitt and featured rapper Kia Kadiri.
- Nudity is only weird if the context is weird. Changing backstage with a bunch of naked women can be so common with performance that you don’t really think twice about it.
- If you say yes to opportunities, it can lead to a lot of surprising friendships. It can also lead to you getting spanked with a belt on stage in front of a large number of people.
- I’m not a good actor. I’m really not. I’m trying to get better at it. I really am. I am a pretty decent improviser, though.
- What happens underground often precedes the mainstream by many years. If you’d seen this show, you would not be at all surprised or amazed by Lady Gaga.
- Feminism is not just one consistent philosophy, and feminists are not at all homogeneous. So when people say that someone is a “bad feminist”, or some model of feminism is “outdated” or “oppressive”, they might just be full of shit (and note: I have been one of those people).
- I love comedy.
- It is admirable to produce a show, but how do you create longevity out of that show? You can make a video, but it takes work to create a series of videos. Same thing with a blog, a product launch, a political philosophy, a protest. It takes enormous work and energy to commit to a concept long-term.
- I will never forget the character whose hobbies included smoking cigarettes and break-dancing in the 7-11 parking lot.
- I used to be pretty cool, for a while there. Or…at least I did cooler things than perhaps I had any right to do.
- “Don’t Stare. Grow Your Own.”