Degrees of separation, eh?

Surreal news from yesterday.

I help run the very new Gay-Straight Alliance in my school (which now actually boasts gay members, something sorely lacking the prior year of existence), and we had our first meeting yesterday.

I discovered that one of the students who showed up, a junior girl, apparently spent her Sundays in Washington Square Park playing pickup wiffleball with a bunch of guys who were entertainingly crappy at the game.

Among these fellows was a certain someone whom we all know of and love.

You'll never guess.

Give up?

John Cameron Mitchell.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. This girl knows -- and is friends with -- none other than the man who played Hedwig herself on stage and screen, in our favorite cult rock musical.

It only gets better -- the GSA is planning to screen Hedwig and the Angry Inch (which interlibrary loan can find on DVD), and the man himself may come to talk with us, answer questions, and otherwise be dangerously cool.

Nearby TASPers should feel free to drop by; I'll update y'all on the situation as it comes to pass.

But you have to admit that it's really, really freakin' cool.