Destruct-o-thon 2K8

Last night I went to The Stranger’s 11th Annual Valentine’s Day Bash–a night where people bring treasured mementos from failed relationships and they’re destroyed onstage in a burst of healing cathartic activity.

This wasn’t my first Bash–I first attended in 2006, when I had something of my own to destroy, and it made the news.

(Sorry it’s hard to read–since LJ scrapbook is blocked, I have to use Facebook, which resizes photos. Crappily.)

Although I didn’t have anything to bring this year, it’s a show that’s always worth attending, even as just an audience member. This year, in addition to the tar-and-feathers, blowtorch, paper shredder, and sledgehammer, we had a blender, a circular saw, a machete and liquid nitrogen.

I made sure to arrive early and staked out a spot right at the stage–it’s worth the prospect of getting some feathers in your hair or sprinkled with ‘tar’ in order to see the action up close.

While I waited for the show to start, a nifty lesbian with pink hair taught me how to swing dance AND do the charleston, and I was hit on by a bald dude in a Utilikilt with braces from Edinburgh who is a…(wait for it)…pole dancing instructor. Yeeeeeeeeeah.

Anyway, the show was a blast, it’s always neat to see Dan Savage (whose column I’ve read religiously since I was 15 and he was going by ‘Hey Faggot!’ in the Shepherd Express), and since I know that my experience there REALLY helped me get past my anger and move on, I also know that I witnessed a lot of awesome people who got fucked over by assholes and heartless bitches get a fresh start in life.

How great is that?

16 Comments Destruct-o-thon 2K8

  1. storm_dancer February 15, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    Are you the Melissa in the article?

    1. admin February 15, 2008 at 8:30 pm

      I am indeed.

      1. loosechanj February 15, 2008 at 9:01 pm

        The one who brought the comic book? Cuz, uh: Although I didn’t have anything to bring this year

        1. admin February 15, 2008 at 9:25 pm

          That would be me.

          1. loosechanj February 15, 2008 at 9:47 pm

            Reconcile those two contradictory statements before my brain explodes, plz.

          2. admin February 15, 2008 at 9:51 pm

            This is the article from two years ago, when I had something to bring.

          3. loosechanj February 15, 2008 at 10:29 pm

            Don’t mind me, my reading comprehension is fucked by brain cancer apparently.

          4. agentdanak February 15, 2008 at 11:47 pm

            aren’t brain issues great?

            (i really just wanted to icon at you)

          5. loosechanj February 16, 2008 at 1:14 am

            WWNPHD? He’d probably steal my fucking car, that’s what.

          6. agentdanak February 16, 2008 at 1:19 am

            and bring it back with money (one hopes).

          7. loosechanj February 16, 2008 at 1:40 am

            Or he could just leave one of the hookers tied up in the back seat.

          8. admin February 15, 2008 at 11:51 pm

            Govenor Schwartezenegger (I don’t care if that’s not spelled right) has assured me it’s not a tumor.

            …you’re totally kidding, right?

          9. loosechanj February 16, 2008 at 1:11 am

            I hope so, but how do you tell when you can’t afford health care? XD

  2. pretzelcoatl February 15, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    (Sorry it’s hard to read–since LJ scrapbook is blocked, I have to use Facebook, which resizes photos. Crappily.)

    Is Photobucket blocked too? Either way, I could read just fine. A+!

  3. eloe February 15, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    That is unbelievably awesome.

  4. strand February 15, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    OMFG that’s awesome.

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