Having spent the past year as an aspiring — fancytalk for unpaid — stand-up comedian, with only a part-time job during the day, the only medical plan I had was “take an aspirin, rub some dirt on it, and stop being such a pussy.” So I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Washington State has [...]
I’ve been wavering back and forth about whether this post from last week was a healthy clearing-the-air, on the one hand, or a retarded and unnecessary overreaction, on the other. I stayed indecisive about it all weekend, taking the post down and then putting it back up several times — which I now realize is [...]
One of the only promises I made to myself, when I started this blog, was that I’d be as open and honest as possible, not eliding the bumps and failures along the road of my comedy journey. It’s in that spirit that I shared the reason for my long absence, and joked about it. But [...]
There’s no way around this, I guess: you’re apparently curious to learn more about my experience in jail. Well I wouldn’t have gotten into comedy if I weren’t, at heart, an approval-seeking attention whore, so what can I do but oblige? Here are answers to the four most commonly raised questions: No, there was no [...]
There’s this weird psychological phenomenon that happens to me, when I haven’t blogged for a while, wherein writing the next blog post seems to become more and more difficult as time goes on. I feel increasingly compelled to offer up a really good reason for my absence from blogging, and it also feels like I [...]
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