The main item going on was the Catfight For The Crown, a drag show beauty contest and fundraiser for the Ruth Ellis Center of Detroit at the Fillmore. A friends brother won last year and we had 6 women and 4 guys in the balcony booth this year. It was quite hilarious with categories of evening wear, swimsuit, talent, and interview segments. It raised 100,00 before even starting and another 27,000 during the show.
First problem was the bowtie I was going to wear. It requires two fully functional hands and fingers and the ability to raise the left hand to my neck. All were failures. Had to ask one of my women friends to put it on.
Since I was bringing sake for the preshow drinks I needed to bring separate glasses to not mix with the wines we were having. Bought two six packs of flimsy plastic wine glasses with the snap on bases. One handed removal of the wrapping plastic and separating the pieces resulted in breaking one base and one cup. This totally required a gentle touch with two hands, one hand is way too rough.
In the booth we had high bar chairs with arm rests to sit on. This allowed me to perch my beer glass on the arm rest instead of simply transferring it to my left hand like normal people do. My neighbor during one of the clapping sessions knocked a half full glass of beer into my lap.
I expect that every one of these failures is fixable and has been addressed by at least one of the 10 million yearly stroke survivors. That we don't have a publicly available database of solutions is the most damning failure of our fucking failures of stroke associations.
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| Last years winner being a judge this year |
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| The stage after the winner was announced |
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