leave the world behind

Just caught Quidam on a rainy saturday afternoon. I love Cirque, it just screams pure and simple... come in here and leave the outside world behind. Pity the prices are out of this world too though... 250 bucks for a paper mache mask for instance. Cirque is also not a place to go to feel good about being fat and unfit. Everyone there is in such great shape its... well... surreal... for lack of a better word. Perhaps that is exactly why we call it escapism.

So there i was fat and unfit in a crowd of similarly unfit people munching on an overpriced hotdog in a seat that my pri school cousin couldn't fit into, gazing in awe at the antics of a group of majorly talented fit people. Anything wrong with the picture? Maybe that is where the fat skinny divide will end up. Slim people will belong in the circuses and fat people will belong on the stands which are nearer to the hotdog stalls. I knew there was something freaky about being slim.