Alien acrobats in human skins

Not much to report from Planet Seattle. My wife and I are seeing Cirque du Soleil tonight, thanks to free tickets I got from my work. Granted, I do have a soul-deadening job, but sometimes the perks make it all worth it. If I didn't have free tickets, my wife and I would have passed on the $200 entry fee for us to go in and see a group of highly talented superhumans bend in ways not even CGI can render. It's not that we don't like CdS. We've already caught one of their shows as well as attempted to get in to one of their many spectacles in Las Vegas (either the water one or the sex one, we can't recall).

It's just that about a year ago, "Cavalia" came through town. For those of you who don't know, "Cavalia" was a CdS offshoot that featured horses and humans performing the CdS-brand of "I'll never be able to bend like that in a thousand years of diet and yoga training" dexteries. After you see a couple of people get all double-helixy with each other on a moving stallion (good lord, the sexual imagery alone), the normal CdS seems kinda tepid. After all, the people can train for years in to be in that CdS limber franca. You add a horse, a thousand-pound animal that could go nuts and stampede at any moment, and the danger-voyeur level in the crowd is elevated. Of course, tonight, my wife and I will clap and be awestruck, but CdS does need to bump it up a notch. We're thinking something with monkeys and chain saws, or the Dr. Evilesque sharks with laser beams.

Now, that's entertainment.