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...controversial again. This tour is being touted as the comic's return to her just-me-and-the-microphone roots, albeit a return that's augmented by a retinue that includes her partner Anne Heche (who's making a documentary) and, on a night this writer saw it, a goat. "My comedy got lost, and my sexuality overshadowed it," said DeGeneres. (Alan Greenspan faces this problem every day.) She was afraid to do stand-up again until Chris Rock told her to "get [her] ass back out there...
...these aren't the Victorian Olympics. For the first time, women will compete in weight lifting and the pole vault, once thought of as two of the highest-testosterone events of the Summer Games. Poised to make Olympic history are two American women who came to their sports via goat roping and tree-house building. Since those events aren't yet sanctioned, lifter Cheryl Haworth and vaulter Stacy Dragila will have to settle for medals in what used to be exclusively male pursuits...
...narrator of Pastoralia, the title story, has things even worse. He lives in a cave, albeit a fake one, that is an exhibit in a mysterious, at least to him, theme park. He and Janet, his cavewoman partner, are supposed to perform daily Stone Age tasks--cooking a goat, working on pictographs, grabbing and pretending to eat insects--for the benefit of spectators, but hardly anyone comes by to observe them anymore. The fax machine in the caveman's private quarters spits out ominous messages from the park management: "Those of you who have no need to be worried should...
...artifacts in the ruins, including a wooden loom, children's toys and combs. Along with hair, body lice and animal parasites, these items will be invaluable in determining what each room was used for. Researchers also found bones and other remnants from meals, and even a mummified goat. That means, says Berglund, "we'll even be able to tell whether there was enough food and whether the people and animals were healthy...
...call the band "The Goat Hearders." Get it? "Heard" instead of "herd." Kinda like "Beatles" instead of "beetles." Heardlemania. It could work. Alright, so "The Goat Hearders" name would probably end up in the trash, but the kids would like it. I'll come up with something better...