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November 21, 2004
Margaret's Blog
About two or three years ago, Michael and I took a rare journey down to South Beach to see the first stop on Margaret Cho’s Notorious C.H.O. tour. If you’ve seen Cho’s specials on Premium TV, you already know that the woman can get rather nasty and outrageous on stage, but going to see her live, you think that there’s stuff they won’t even let you hear on HBO.
The audience was primarily gay men and women; however, there was a hetero couple in our row that walked out when the show got a bit too racy for their tastes. Did they win tickets from a radio program? Did they know nothing about Margaret Cho?
A second-generation Korean American from San Francisco, Margaret Cho was born in 1968 and grew up in the hippy-centric Haight-Ashbury district, in contrast to the heavy religious influence of her Methodist Grandfather. She started performing stand-up at age 16, and has never stopped.
I was recently reading where “Blogs” was a recent category of Jeopardy, and Margaret Cho’s picture was the $2,000 clue. I was so delighted that my decadent comic diva has a blog of her very own! This morning I was clicked into Margaret’s Blog and was pleased to find out that she keeps it up to date, unlike so many other celebrity bloggers.
No surprise, Cho is a big proponent of fighting the current onslaught of anti-Gay Marriage legislation. I very nearly went off into a huge tangent here about this sort of legislation, but it should take no Einstein to figure out where I stand on the issue. My reasons are not what you might think, however, and perhaps I’ll dedicate another blog entry to this very subject, soon.
For broadband Internet users, there’s some wonderful little featurettes available on the website. And her Blog won the 2004 Bloggy for most humorous weblog.
Go visit it yourself at: Margaret’s Blog
Posted by Bastique at November 21, 2004 10:29 AM