The Paper | Calendar | |Businesses | Attractions | Nightlife | Resources | Gay Links | Home Lesbian comedienne Mimi Gonzales is the self-described "butch bi switch bitch" who had a packed house at CSU Monterey Bay on May 9th laughing over the everything from the legalization of marijuana to lesbian sex clubs to picking the right dental dam. "It was funnier than Nashville pussy," said a visiting lesbian from Texas. Gonzalez's performance was part of The Santa Cruz Women in Concert Week sponsored by CSUMB's gay organization, All in the Family, and the Institute for Human Communications. Gonzales is based in Los Angeles, but has traveled the country doing her stand-up routine. She understood her crowd and gave a non-stop, 45-minute set based on the strengths and frailties of lesbians and gay men, and cleverly worked the audience's responses into her act. The performance was marred only by a sound system that sometimes rendered Gonzalez unintelligible and an hour delay caused by people not being able to find the Black Box Cabaret. Linda Jones, a graduate of CSUMB, did a performance piece which started with her pretending to break into the room. For fifteen minutes, Jones stomped around the room, chased by a security guard with a flashlight: her mantra: "You say you want things to change, but all you do is talk about it." The startled audience applauded the unusual performance, which Gonzales later dubbed the most unusual (and scariest) stand-up act she'd ever seen since her college roommate. Gonzalez is a founder of "Women with Balls," the weekly women's stand-up comedy showcase in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She has also been featured on Comedy Central's "Women Aloud."