"Hell" and "Outrage"
On the harrowing night of the 2008 presidential election I saw Jeff Jones do a quick-hit stand up act at Hamburger Marys in which he said that if the right wing was so goddamn concerned with the sanctity of marriage then why didn’t they ban divorce? I’ve been a fan ever since. Far right hypocracy of the on the issue of gay civil rights is easily as perverse as anything I’ve ever seen…and I’ve seen "Coctomom". Lucky for us Jones expanded the soul of that joke, focused his keen eye on the politics of hate and came up with the Fringe comedy “Welcome to Hell,” now playing at Parliament House's Footlights Theater through July 11 (click for ticket info). . " Welcome to Hell" finds us where many of us expect to be eventually - face to face with Satan himself. As an audience member you have arrived in the underworld and await your orientation (which I previously thought of as“the Bush years”), and are stuck...