in the afternoon i went to see a play about actress Mae West in northeast Minneapolis. it was in a former Westinghouse building where i had seen some shows before. the play was kind of long, more than two hours, but had an intermission as well. i had read a little about the trial that this play depicts, about obscenity in her play called 'sex' in the 1920s from Garrison Keillor's 'writers almanac'. i liked learning something from the play, how this standard for plays stayed on the books for nearly forty years. also liked how some of the famous people of the time- newspaperman Bill Hearst and New York's governor Al Smith- were part of the story. an announcement was made after the play had ended, saying there was an opening weekend reception and there was cheese and crackers so i had some of those. i went home, but only briefly, after that. i had a snack and then it was on to perform at an open mic. the show runner spoke of having just driven back from Chicago so he did a set in the early in the show and then left shortly after that due to being tired. i had seen the fill-in emcee before. i did some bank stories as well as riding the light rail stories. i didn't do much after getting home from performing. around midday i watched part of a united football league game, Arlington at San Antonio, this is the closing weekend of the regular season. i left for the play at the end of the third quarter. during my walks i found 1 dollar 11 cents.
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