Live From Clayton...

Hey there 'Redheads... Greetings from Tobacco Road, by the banks of the Sweet Tea River. I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Clayton, NC, mass murdering the minutes before my shows tonight at LOL Comedy Club. Before I get started, I'd like to apologize for the last post. It stunk out loud and I feel bad for even pushing the publish button. After making you wait so long (play along) you deserved something that even slightly made sense. Well, now I'm fueled by pulled pork and sweet tea and ready to mildly amuse you.

A couple deaths to start things off... After being missing since Valentine's Day, actor Andrew Koenig was found dead of an apparent suicide. You know him better as Boner from Growing Pains. Don't expect any Boner jokes here. I didn't make the connection until today, but he also played the Joker in a pretty awesome Batman fan film, Batman: Dead End. Please to enjoy it...

Boner, we hardly knew ye... On the lighter side of death, my buddy Seth tipped me off to this recent passing...

Ronald Howes Sr., the inventor of the Easy Bake Oven that millions of young girls used to bake their first cookies, cupcakes and brownies, has died at the age of 83. Howes, who also created defense weapons and printers, developed the Easy Bake Oven while working at Kenner toys in the early 1960s.

According to his wishes, he'll be cremated. That'll be awhile. Then, there's the big story about the killer whale that lived up to its name at Sea World. I've been watching that harridan from HLN, Jane Velez-Mitchell, out shout a trained animal expert about the incident. He's had 40 years experience with animal training and she's a bottom feeder. I'm sure these trainers know the risks of getting into a tank with a killer whale, but they're not allowed to have pedophile whales at Sea World. Think of the children!

Like the rest of you, I've been intermittently transfixed by the pageantry of the Winter Olympics. Anyone else disappointed that the Ethiopians didn't send a delegation to compete in skeleton? There, that slice of evil should make up for the earlier lack of a Boner joke. Some people are also confused by curling. I got a chance to try curling recently, and I have a new found respect for curlers. I was set straight on curling. The sport requires a flexibility normally reserved for Spider-man's stunt double. Sure, it looks like bowling spliced with the ice capades, but it there's skill involved. I'm glad that technology hasn't taken over curling. They could eliminate the sweeping and just toss a Roomba down the ice, but thankfully, tradition has prevailed.


That's all for now... Back to my room to watch more crap.

To be continued...

Meh...

Hey there, 'Redheads... Miss me? It's been damn near two weeks since I was here last. As per usual, I have no good excuse for the blatant neglect, but I offer a half-hearted apology and a half-hearted blog entry, which adds up to some wholehearted mediocrity for ye. Try to contain yourselves. You'll be happy to know that I'm making progress on being able to be in two places at once...if the two places are really close together. I've missed a bunch of holidays in my absence, so let me quickly (lazily) touch on a couple, through video...

PRESIDENT'S DAY


ASH WEDNESDAY

As you can see, I've put a ton of thought into this post. In no way is it just a lazy place marker. I could just go stream of consciousness and see how that works out. I saw what could be my favorite movie of the year yesterday. Do yourself a favor and shove this gem to the front of your Netflix queueueue. Black Dynamite. Two easy steps: 1) Watch Black Dynamite. 2) Thank me. In the words of the color commentator calling the USA/Canada hockey game, it's "tremendously tremendous." Please support that flick before you flush any of your hard earned cash away to see that atrocious hack piece of dreck Tracy Morgan movie, Cop Out. I realize I don't have much of a leg to stand on making an argument like this, when this blog is currently craptacular.

Speaking of supporting quality entertainment, I'd like to let you know that I'll be featuring at the DC Improv on April 1-3 for Ben Bailey, host of Cash Cab. Click the link for tix and info.

I promise to have a more focused entry for you as I emanate from Tobacco Road. I'll be in Clayton, NC this Thurs-Sat at LOL Comedy Club. But you'll be here. I'll try to be in both places...

Snow Means Snow...

Hey there 'Redheads... Remember, in the last installment, when I told everyone to just get a hold of yourselves, and not give the impending snow an imposing name because it would only serve in blowing everything out of proportion? Well, upon further review... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! Ok, nature, we get it. Enough with the cold fluffy death from above. I wasn't in town for the brunt of it, but I was watching the Georgetown game on ESPN and they kept showing exterior shots of the Verizon Center. 30+ inches in some places. You know it's a lot of snow when it's not safe to let midgets roam free. And now, we need to brace ourselves for potentially 20 inches or more. If this next storm maxes out, snowplows aren't going to cut it. We're going to need AT-ATs. When nature flexes it's muscle, why fight it? I think it's a great chance to appreciate the beauty behind the brute force. This morning I saw where the weight of the snow had brought down a tree on top of a speed camera. Now that's fuckin' beautiful. Clock that, you asshole.

Like I mentioned, I was able to skip town before the area got completely frost bitten. I made it down I-95 to one of my favorite comedy clubs, Cozzy's in Newport News, VA. I wasn't able to escape the weather entirely. We got torrential rain, which turned to snow, which turned to ice. No major accumulations, but just enough to make residents lose their minds. In order to keep from going completely stir crazy in my room that didn't have a functional remote control, I ventured out to the local multiplex. The only thing that was starting when I showed up was Avatar. I wasn't keen on seeing it, but any port in a storm. I had heard all the reviews... 3-D visuals with a 2-D story. I'll admit it. The 3-D was pretty cool. A pinata from which an endless stream of eye candy spilled. I'm pretty sure I got eyeabetes. My left eye was a bleary bloodshot mess after mainlining nearly 3 hours of smurftastic special effects. It was not ungood...

Not Cameron's best, by a long shot, but it will change the way you watch movies...they'll be more expensive now.

Once the weekend fun was done, I had to make the trek back home. I was moving at a pretty brisk clip, until I reached the rain/snow line near Fredricksburg. I-95 was a caked on mess. It was so pock marked with potholes, you'd think it had been renamed Edward James Olmos highway. The last 40 miles of my trip took roughly 2 hours, but I made it home to find a parking space carved out and my power and heat running. Not only that, but I got home in time to warm my cockles by watching my Terps beat the tar out of North Carolina. Coupled with a great win for the Caps, that would normally be a great sports weekend, but there was still the Super Bowl left to play. I enjoyed the game. It was close, there were some great signature plays, and the Colts lost, so I was happy... The one thing that irked me was the combined point total, and that it wasn't higher than the age of the band playing halftime. Seriously, The Who have been around longer than the Super Bowl. The ads were ok. Nothing really stood out among the talking babies and the screaming chickens.

After you dig out of the snowverkill, come dig me in Charm City this weekend...Print out this coupon and drinks are on the house...Bask in the warm glow of mild amusement.

To be continued...

SNOW-LY CRAP!!

Let's try and get a hold of ourselves, 'Redheads... Everyone is losing their minds over the impending storm that's going to make The Shining look like an instructional video. Computer models have shown that the DC Metro area will turn purple on Friday morning. We're going to get grimaced. People are already predicting that schools will be closed for at least two days after the storm. It's the Snow-pocalypse!... SNO-MG!... Snow what?, that's what I say. After the dumping we got a month or snow ago, you'd think we could handle ourselves. That last snow wasn't measured in inches, it was measured in shit-tons. Everyone made it out just fine. I'd like you guys to help me out with a snowcialogical experiment. After the storm shutters you in for the weekend, I'd like you to keep a record of how much bread you consume, how much milk you guzzle, and your instances of ass-wipage. I'm pretty positive it's not going to be much more than your average two day consumption. Snow calm the fuck down.

Once again, the snow is picking a fine time to drop in. Just in time to fuck up everyone's weekend plans. I speak specifically of anyone who has comical obligations on the eastern seaboard. Shows will probably be cancelled and I'm hoping that mine aren't among them. I'm performing in Newport News, VA this weekend at one of my favorite little clubs, Cozzy's. The snow is supposed to start falling around 10am on Friday, which is when I'll be hopping in the car to head south, where birds go to get away from this crap. I blame the groundhog for this. Six more weeks of winter all because some yutz in a top hat held a rodent up with the sun at its back. Maybe Apple can help... I'll make a sled out of iPads and call it the iDitarod. I wish I could enjoy the snow as much as an eight year old...or Darth Vader, but I got someplace to be and this is a white fluffy pain in my ass. Hey, speaking of Darth Vader...

David Prowse, the British actor who physically played Darth Vader in the original three 'Star Wars' films, has announced he's made a full recovery from prostate cancer.

Technically, James Earl Jones made the announcement.

See you guys when I get back, just in time for the SuperSnowl...