Hanging Out in Oakland + Los Angeles

Amos Mac and Ali Liebegott chill out on a lovely striped couch at Rock Paper Scissors in Oakland, before our show Friday night! You see the glares you get when you interrupt a Sister Spit performer’s pre-show texting-and-coffee-downtime? Amos brought in the van a book called The Queen’s Vernacular, which explains the origin, place and date of olde gaye slang! We were excited to learn the provenance of the all-purpose ‘Mary’. And then I realized that it will be really fun to call Amos Mac Old Mary Mac for the rest of our time together.

 

Kirk Read bought that shirt in Florida, where it was being sold un-ironically. Just as he is eating his chicken fingers. He means it.

 

Kirk Read told MariNaomi she’s five drinks away from a  mullet. But then it was recognized that Mari’s covetable, avant-garde hairdo is sort of a mullet in reverse. And look what else her hair’s got:

Feathers! Mari has feather extensions! That shit is just like woven or melded or whatever right into her head! So pretty.

Blake Nelson kicks back in the RPS zine library / magic elvin nook with a copy of Cometbus.

And then we went to Los Angeles, where we had the biggest amazingest Sister Spit show in two decades of Sister Spit tours! It was so big and hectic I took no photos, except:

 

Okay so one of our special LA guests was Amber Benson, who played Tara the Witch who made out with Willow the witch on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, thereby providing the tvland with its first Lesbian Witch Kiss! People were psyched. Elisa Shea (above), who made our awesome opening slide show, brought her DVD for Amber to sign. And when Amber asked MariNaomi to sign a copy of her new book Kiss & Tell, Mari accidentally signed ‘To Tara’. Oops! Such is the price of being an icon.

 

And with this, I’m out.