Welcome to the twentieth century, everyone!!  We made it.  Alright, well, I am sitting here in my bathrobe next to my girlfriend’s cats’ litterbox.  I know I am clean, but this whole room smells like I did before I got in the shower.  Well, I shouldn’t say that;  I didn’t exactly smell like cat-shit.  Regardless, life is good.  I am still plugging away trying to make this whole stand up comedy career happen.  I am having a blast.  If there is one thing that has been on my mind in recent months, its this:  I love doing comedy and I feel very blessed that my life path has led me to the point where I am making a living doing it.  However, if there is one thing that rains on my parade, and luckily it is VERY rare in my experience, it is being complained to by the other comic.  I don’t mean to complain about complainers, but if I am headlining a gig and it doesn’t pay well (first of all, if you got into comedy for the money, you are retarded) I sure as HELL am not going to bitch about it to the feature who is making, at most, half of what I am making.  I’m just sick of it.   Okay, that was not a good note so start off on.  I apologize.

    I forgot to make a new years resolution so I will do what I do every year when I remember a week late to make a resolution and I will try to think of something that I haven’t already done in the last week…  Wow, not a lot left…. I guess 2008 will be the year I give up farming.

    I am happy to report that the Gentlemen’s Hour is still kicking ass.  This has been an exciting start of the year for us.  Just yesterday, we performed at the nation’s largest sketch festival, the Chicago Sketchfest!  It went great.  We had a blast.  It was very exciting and everyone involved was awesome.  My Second City instructor, Brian Posen, is the director of the whole thing so it was good to see him again after probably almost 6 years.  ticket n pass

    So we all drove out to Chicago together with our main sound and lights man, Matt Tremle.  That was fun.  Then we raced back to Milwaukee for our first of many, many shows to come at the new Alchemist Theatre in Milwaukee.  I guess it’s technically in the Bayview area or something.  That was very fun.  We did an hour of all improv and it went over pretty well.  We will be having those shows every other Sunday.  Usually, it won’t be all improv, but we were very excited to do some live improv as we haven’t done that in a long time in front of a crowd.  Those shows are going to mainly be used to workshop sketch ideas, do stand-up, show new videos, show old video favorites, and of course perform improv.

    Tomorrow I am off on a string of one-nighters for stand up.  I am excited about it.  I do miss my lady when I am out on the road, but aside from that, I really like being on the road.  Yeah, I get bored during the day, but that is sort of good, because it forces me to be productive.  For example, just last week, I was in Davenport, IA.  I was really bored, I hadn’t done anything all day, so at 3:30pm I put on some clothes and went to KFC.  I’m on my way to becoming a great comedian!

    I don’t have a lot more to say.  I just wanted to update the old girl as I can’t really do that much on the road.  I need to use my girlfriend’s computer to update my web-site.  I can update my myspace on the road, but not this site.  Well, I hope everyone is have a great year so far and sticking to your dumb resolutions.  I’m gonna put some pants on and go farm.

    ps.  I miss my hair.

 


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