Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Here on Fibber Island, We Use Turbans Instead of Poker Chips
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2003 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
I lost the Apollo Amateur Night regional competition. However, I enjoyed meeting the other performers and the Apollo crew, and I know that my performance did not cause my outcome. By the time I went up, the audience would have booed a ham sandwich, so hungry for "execution" were they. Extremely talented acts found themselves cut off after a minute, victims of this quite saddening phenomenon.
My friends and I had a cool afterparty, during which I gave them the routine I would have performed for a civilized audience. And did. As it happened (not the CBC show), I dissed the audience back: "You would boo yourselves! ... You're like Raiders fans, booing whether it's good or bad!" But no one could hear me, due to the aforementioned booing.
I did enjoy the work of the winner, Cherelle Fourtier (sp?), a courteous singer. I wish her well, and hope that I'll get my claim to fame some other time.
