Eddie Izzard <3 Mr. and Mrs. Wikipedia
I caught Eddie Izzard at the Kodak theater last night. I confess I’ve seen every Izzard video and every episode of The Riches, so I’m pre-wired to like this guy (why does the British accent make everything funnier?!). He didn’t disappoint and was as delightfully irreverent as ever and a couple of his “scenes”, as he calls them, hit close to home. Notably, a bit about sopranos (see my girlfriend’s site at http://kateconklin.com) getting hit by shoes and a great description of opera that went something like, “rich people watching big people shaken by little people!”
Izzard was unabashedly advocating for Mac products (I would send this transvestite a MacBook Air if I were in PR at Apple!) and trashing PCs and Blackberrys (picture Izzard turning a crank to start the things up). At one point Izzard whipped out his iPhone to show the audience the pinball app. I have to admit I thought he was going to turn it into a joke about how the iPhone renders many a user socially inept by investing every spare moment of attention playing with our beloved toy and thus foregoing any meaningful HUMAN interaction, but, alas, he was just indulging his “inner child” and illustrating how far we’ve come in technology.
Throughout all his anti-creationist, pro-Obama, God parody ranting (all of which I enjoyed thoroughly!), his overall message about human potential was positive and motivating. And on the tech front, he got me thinking about how in the future we probably will look back on typing on a keyboard as crude and primitive. “You mean you actually had to physically type in every single letter one by one?!” our children (or children’s children) will say.
Eddie was sans-cross-dress last evening…what does it mean if I missed the heels and shiny dress?
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