I am pretty excited.  I just got done with a run in Michigan where I worked out quite a bit of new material and this week I am at the fantastic Comedy Cafe in Milwaukee.  Next week I am at the wonderful Skyline Comedy Cafe in Appleton, WI.  I love both of those clubs and am super excited to deliver some killer new jokes.  I had fun in Michigan with Brian Green.  We drove together.  That is one thing about life on the road, a lot of the time us, comics, will ride together.  Sometimes you don’t know what to expect and it can be uncomfortable.  Fortunately, I knew Brian and have known him for a while and we had a blast together.  But sometimes, you wonder if saving on gas was worth your car smelling like a huge fart for the week.

After these next two weeks, I will not be home very much over the following three months.  That is good and bad.  Its great because I will be working (doing what I love) nonstop for three months.  That is good for my mental health, the development of me and my act, and financially good.  It sucks because I will not be home.  I will miss my friends and my girlfriend.  I am sure that by the end of the next 2 weeks, my girlfriend will be sick of me enough to where it will be a good thing.  Ha.  Not really, but this lifestyle definitely does force us to appreciate what we both have.

I have been drifting around the internet here and there lately, and realized a lot of comics really get gung-ho about posting stuff and blogging and networking and all sorts of stuff like that.  I do enjoy making videos and posting them and blogging here and there.  I do it for myself.  I do the blogging mainly as a writing exercise just to keep my mind going.  The videos, I do because they’re fun and I like hearing feedback on them.  I sometimes wonder, though, should I be doing more?  Do some people do too much?  I think one reason I don’t do more is because of the lack of feedback.  I do stand up comedy and get an instantaneous response to everything I say, whether its laughter, silence, or booing.  With posting stuff, it isn’t like that.  Myspace allows people to comment and that works IF people comment.  And this website, shit, my most recent guestbook signature is like 2 months old.  So I definitely don’t write thinking 100’s  (or even 10’s) of people are reading it the next day.  Maybe someday… but that would just be more pressure, honestly.  My other hesitation to do more is who really cares?  Who cares what some of these bloggers write about.  Why do I give a shit how angry reality tv makes Joe Schmoe??  I have written about reality tv myself, that’s why I use it as an example.  I guess if its entertaining, sure.  Wow, I just realized how utterly and completely hypocritical this entire blog entry is.  Eh, whatever.  I’m writing this for me.  I have been bombarded by some people and there accounts (myspace, youtube, facebook…) trying to get their #’s up with how many times people have watched their videos.  I guess if your video doesn’t suck balls, go for it.  Some do, though.  Shit, some of mine do…. very few, though.

Alright, enough ranting.  Please drop me a line or something if you see that I will be in a city or state near you.  In this super hard time in the economy, comedy is taking a dive and it is hurting comics pretty bad.  Gas prices up, attendance down, and comics pay the same as 10 years ago.  Next time a comic comes to town, please go see the show.  And if he is selling something after the show, please buy it, not just to have it, but to support them and help them… even if its as dumb as a t-shirt that just says, “I love my hairy balls.” 

Well, I am in Milwaukee and have some time off.  I love performing, but I think this is a well-timed break as I have recently started feeling a little exhausted and have been feeling a little ill in the throat lately.  I think I need this time to rest a bit.  I just got back from a run in North Dakota with the funny Mark Knope.  It was fun, not all that worth my while, but I took it because I was supposed to have a big weekend in Minneapolis, and that fell out at the last minute, and I didn’t want to screw over my friends at the agency that booked in in North Dakota so I did it and had a blast.  Unfortunately, when I got home I realized that my camcorder bag was missing.  It had my camcorder, a ton of tapes, and bunch of cords and stuff I need in it.  I am almost positive someone from the hotel staff took it.  During my whole trip, the camera was only in my trunk and in hotel rooms.  I may have left it in one of the rooms accidentally, but when I called all of them (about 4 to 5 times) everyone told me nothing was found in the rooms.  I normally like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, someone’s lying.  Honestly, the tapes I lost are more important than the camera.  I have already replaced the camera (a HUUUGE thanks to my Gentlemens Hour counterparts for their concern and help with me on that! Those guys are the best.), but the tapes I had in that bag had home video footage of my last bunch of visits with my nieces and nephews in Omaha and a lot of project footage for The Gentlemens Hour stuff and all my recorded stand up for the last 6 months.  I am working on putting a demo tape together for the Boston Comedy Festival and all I have to work with is footage from 2007 where my hair is down past my shoulders… damn, it was beautiful!  I know I probably shouldn’t complain as it could definitely be worse.  That phrase is rarely comforting, as I think I have ranted on in the past.  Well, I am excited to say that I will be performing in Milwaukee at the fabulous Comedy Cafe on Brady at the end of the month and then at the Skyline Comedy Cafe in Appleton the next weekend.

    I am trying to think of if I forgot anything I wanted to mention.  Oh, please do yourself a favor and go see Iron Man if you haven’t already.  I have seen it twice and I just love it.  It is great.  I think that’s everything.  Please keep checking in as I will continue to post super duper hilarious updates just like this one.   …yikes, sorry about that.  ”Don’t ya hate it when you drive 13 hours to North Dakota and ya lose your camera and all your tapes….”

Thank you to everyone that came to the Gentlemen’s Hour show this past Friday.  It was a huge success.  We all had a blast and it was just a great night.  I actually just sat down to write for The Gentlemens Hour and thought I would post an entry as I am going out of town tomorrow night and might not get to say hello for a few days.  I was at Pick N Save today and in the check out aisle, I saw a little coffee table book called, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Nascar.”  My first thought was, “Isn’t that a little redundant?”  That’s like having a book called, “The idiot’s guide to being an idiot.”  My second thought was, “Hey, that’s kind of an entertaining observation; I should use that in stand-up.”  My third thought was, “Heeey, maybe I should write about this on my website.”  My fourth thought was, “Oh no, looks like I picked the wrong line to get in.  That line over there is moving a lot faster.”  My fifth thought was, “Maybe I should hop in that line real quick.  Hmmm.”  My sixth thought was, “Oh man, but if I hop over into that line and then this line starts moving, I am gonna be pissed.”  I had a lot more thoughts after that, but they weren’t as exciting.  I recently had the following thought, “Geez, this is a pretty dumb entry.  Maybe I should just erase it, and go to bed.”  My current thought is, “Eh, screw it.  It’s fine.”