One year later...
A roll of toilet paper and a bucket of tears isn't exactly what you'd expect as a pre-sketch comedy show routine. But that's what happened when, a year ago today, I learned the devastating news that a family member had been killed in a snowmobile accident. Theatre Sainte-Catherine is the last place I'd ever picture myself feeling so intensely sad. It is usually the place where I, and the many other comedy bums hung out, riffed, and laughed louder than anyone, ever. That's not to say I haven't ever felt sad there, I have. It's just that the profundity to which I felt pain that night outweighed the intensity to which I'd ever felt joy there. And for a place that breeds creativity and comedy and had been a witness to my funniest moments, I felt a strange mess of alienation come over me. I wanted to run, I wanted to be in a dark corner in the freezing cold so that I could sob in solitude like I normally do. I wanted to rip my insides out because it