Cynically Optimistic

Last Wednesday at the Rapture Cafe, a reading was held titled Reading for Filth. Miss Understood was reading a biography of Charles Pierce when a small child scooted right up to the edge of the stage. The filthiest part of the reading continued, as the crowd began chuckling and slowly ramped up to raucous laughter. Upon the realization that she wasn't "killing" as they say, and we were laughing at the child, she exclaimed, "Shoo! Get outta here!" Sympathetic, the crowd let out a sincere 'awww' as the child's head dropped and his caretaker came to fetch him. Gotta love New York parenting!