Aristophanes and the Perks of Biking

Ancient Greek drama isn't exactly a biking kind of topic for a lot of reasons. Among other things, I have biked in a dress and can only imagine biking in a toga is more difficult than that.

That being said, last night I suffered from a bit of humanities-in-college nostalgia. So I went to see The Frogs, which currently is playing various nights in August outside the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

In order to understand the biking story there are two things you should understand:
    1) "The Frogs" is written by Aristophanes. For those of you who didn't have to take a general humanities survey in college, he is considered "The Father of Comedy" and wrote him some pretty funny plays. He was also Greek in the time of togas and agoras and shit.
   2) Riot Act, Inc., the group in charge of this whole theatrical event is Jackson Hole's "alternative theater company." So in a town with a lot of hippies, they're the biggest hippies in the theater scene, which is kind of like being the biggest douchebag at a Ferrari dealership, only you're a lot more fun to be around.

The reason these things are important is that I arrived at the show only to find they'd been selling Greek pita picnic dinners. To those who biked or walked to the show, they sold Greek pita picnic dinners at a discounted price. Granted, it was only a $2 discount, but still, if a penny saved is a penny earned, that's earning 200 pennies. Plus, it's always nice to get that little "I got rewarded for reducing my carbon footprint and getting more exercise" glow that comes when you get Bike Perks.

So you see, Greek play - Greek food, alternative theater - alternative transportation. 

I totally rode my bike to the play last night. The National Wildlife Art Museum is an easy biking destination because it's right along the bike path between town and Grand Teton National Park. There's even a handy underpass from the pathway to the museum driveway so you don't have to cross the highway (my what a lot of ways), which is good, because tourists drive like morons the whole way to and from the park.

Trouble was, I'd already eaten, so really I saved $13 by not buying a picnic dinner at all. But it's nice to know I could have gotten a discount. And the cupcakes they sold had frosting that looked kind of like hummus, which freaked me out, so I saved $3.50 by not buying one of those either.

Oh, and the play was pretty good too.