Last night, Meg and I went to see a presentation given by Post Secret creator Frank Warren. For those of you who don't know about Post Secret, it is a project where people send their secrets to Frank on postcards. The secret has to be something that you've never told anybody. Most people decorate their cards with detailed artwork. The postcards are displayed on the Post Secret blog, in books and in art exhibits.
Anyways, the presentation was very good. Frank was an amazing speaker. He had the voice of a man of the theater! He was witty and eloquent! He told about the history of Post Secret, shared "secret secrets," and then opened up the audience to share secrets of their own. I was pretty surprised at how many people actually volunteered to share such personal stories with an auditorium full of strangers. I will not tell any of their secrets, because they are secrets...duh.
Soooooooo. It was a pretty good event. I'm really glad I went, because whenever I read Frank's blog and see the list of tour dates at the bottom, I always wonder what attending one would be like. I recommend going if one ever comes to you.
Now that that is out of the way, I have a word of advise to anybody who might be attending a performance at Duke University's Page Auditorium: do not sit on the balcony. There is less leg room than an airplane. There is less leg room than at a football game. There is less leg room than you would have if you were sitting in a cardboard box. My feet were falling asleep the entire time. Those crazy Dukies! They must have designed the auditorium in the olden days, back when people were not eating growth hormones in their McDonald's, making the average human much smaller.
So yes! The night was a success! It made me want to send in a secret, but have such a big mouth that I don't have any. Great!
