Ok, fresh from rocking the house at the Comedy Zone in Warwick, RI with Headliner Tony Tone last night…I’m back from the hotel breakfast buffet and ready to pontificate… Maybe I should just regurgitate after all the food I just ate???
I’ll definitely be heading to the hotel fitness room for some time on the treadmill when I finish checking with all of you… If I go now I’m liable to get a cramp, as they say…
Two more shows tonight 8pm and 10pm… I’ll need a nap this afternoon, too… Because tonight I intend on pushing against the edges of the envelope… I don’t think I’ll tear it… But it might not return to its normal shape after the stretching I am prepared to give it…
On Sunday’s drive home I’m planning a stop at the Submarine museum in Groton, CT… while I would love to spend some time there with Eileen… I think it will be an interesting walk back in time for me to make alone, too…
I’ve written a few pieces about my service time… Looking back now it’s interesting to see it from the perspective of time… A lifetime ago… We were young, cocksure and immortal then… I look back now forgetting the hardships and remembering it as some of the best times of my life…
Though the comedy calendar for the rest of the year is a bit sparse… The constant battle to keep it as full and profitable as possible being probably the major outside source of the stress I spoke about yesterday…Admittedly the rest comes from the stress I add myself… Internalized stress can eat up… Luckily for me I’ve never been one to hold much of it in… I don’t think Eileen always feels lucky about that though… Maybe that’s why she bought me a big suitcase for Christmas last year… J
Venting it unconstructively though hasn’t much helped reduce it… So tonight I plan on channeling it to the outer edges of the proverbial envelope I spoke about earlier…
I do have a gig booked at The Polish Club in Herkimer, NY Booked by Headliner Don Adams, a one time Herkimer resident now living in Florida… We’ll be working with Jon Hausman as the MC… It should be a fun show.
October 13 – November 3 will find me at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant for three weeks of contract work… While I’m looking forward to the nice pay checks that accompany it… I had to opt out of two gigs previously booked… L
November 13 – 14 is the Grand Opening Weekend of the new Bonkerz Comedy Club at the Hampton Inn in Colchester, VT… I’ll be opening three shows for Headliner Artie Fletcher and I’m pretty excited about that…
November 21 finds me closer to home at the Livonia, NY Volunteer Fire Department Annual Awards Dinner with Dan Maslyn… I love those kinds of shows and December 18 I’ll be doing another for the Mahopac, NY Volunteer Fire Department Christmas Party with Mike “Mack” McKenna and MC Eileen Loveman!!!
Yes, she’s sleeping with me for stage time… Ok, it’s out there now for the world to see… No sense hiding it… I just wish she didn’t snore…
So while there are a lot of open dates on the calendar… The ones that are filled, promise to be fun filled and I’ll continue to try and fill some more open dates… Bookers are you reading this??? Maybe we’ll take a trip to NYC after the show in Carmel, NY???
Though the weekend before Christmas in NYC might not be as low stress as I might be hoping for…
Thanks for stopping by…
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Life Lessons from the Road
Boldly promising a blog by the end of the weekend today… Forces me to sit myself before my laptop now in an effort to begin the search for coherent thoughts that can be linked together… Lately the pace I’ve been trying to maintain has blocked much of that effort…
Constantly working the email lines to try to keep my calendar filled, obviously keeps me on the road when I’m successful… When I am home I’m trying to keep up with yard work and other chores that have been “piling up”…
There have been lots of fleeting thoughts zinging through the empty space between my ears… They usually appear while I’m doing 70mph… I’ve even managed to add a few new jokes to some of bits…
But am I having enough coherent thoughts to link together into a blog??? Granted sometimes I’m tired and maybe a little road weary… It’s easy then to say… “Well, I’ll write it later”… But when you’re packing up the car every morning during a string of one-nighter’s… Sometimes later doesn’t come…
This weekend I’m in Warwick, Rhode Island for Comedy Zone… Friday and Saturday three shows… I won’t have to pack the car again until Sunday… It’s my first time performing in Rhode Island and my first time working for Comedy Zone… So though I’ll need a nap shortly before getting ready I thought I’d at least start a blog… Maybe it’ll be a “to be continued” weekend project???
Stopping in Schenectady, NY Wednesday night for a Comic Syndrome open mic at The Union Inn on my way to Rhode Island it was good to see some familiar faces…
The place was full and though most of the patrons weren’t there initially to see comedy… They paid surprisingly good attention to most of the show… It turned out to be a fun evening… One I certainly needed…
I titled this “Life Lessons from the Road” because spending a lot of time alone in my car lately has given me time to reflect on a lot of things… Sometimes the hardest lessons are the ones we learn about ourselves…
Especially during times of stress… Sometimes the stress may be only coming from inside us… Sometimes it’s outside forces and other pressures… Sometimes it’s a combination… How we respond to it will determine what we learn from it…
Long hours alone in the car eventually leave no where to hide from our thoughts… Honest reflection makes things painfully honest where a tune up is needed… It usually ain’t “the other guy” who needs it…
The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” I’m paraphrasing, but sometimes we need to remember to think about what is really important… Forgetting that sometimes opens the door to a lot of extra stress we don’t need… There’s enough out there already… And this is enough blog already…
Actually the path I was going to take this thought just detoured out of my head… So it must mean it is time for a pre-game nap, some exercise, a shave & shower… And its SHOWTIME!!!
I’ll be back later… Ya’ll come back later, too…
Constantly working the email lines to try to keep my calendar filled, obviously keeps me on the road when I’m successful… When I am home I’m trying to keep up with yard work and other chores that have been “piling up”…
There have been lots of fleeting thoughts zinging through the empty space between my ears… They usually appear while I’m doing 70mph… I’ve even managed to add a few new jokes to some of bits…
But am I having enough coherent thoughts to link together into a blog??? Granted sometimes I’m tired and maybe a little road weary… It’s easy then to say… “Well, I’ll write it later”… But when you’re packing up the car every morning during a string of one-nighter’s… Sometimes later doesn’t come…
This weekend I’m in Warwick, Rhode Island for Comedy Zone… Friday and Saturday three shows… I won’t have to pack the car again until Sunday… It’s my first time performing in Rhode Island and my first time working for Comedy Zone… So though I’ll need a nap shortly before getting ready I thought I’d at least start a blog… Maybe it’ll be a “to be continued” weekend project???
Stopping in Schenectady, NY Wednesday night for a Comic Syndrome open mic at The Union Inn on my way to Rhode Island it was good to see some familiar faces…
The place was full and though most of the patrons weren’t there initially to see comedy… They paid surprisingly good attention to most of the show… It turned out to be a fun evening… One I certainly needed…
I titled this “Life Lessons from the Road” because spending a lot of time alone in my car lately has given me time to reflect on a lot of things… Sometimes the hardest lessons are the ones we learn about ourselves…
Especially during times of stress… Sometimes the stress may be only coming from inside us… Sometimes it’s outside forces and other pressures… Sometimes it’s a combination… How we respond to it will determine what we learn from it…
Long hours alone in the car eventually leave no where to hide from our thoughts… Honest reflection makes things painfully honest where a tune up is needed… It usually ain’t “the other guy” who needs it…
The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” I’m paraphrasing, but sometimes we need to remember to think about what is really important… Forgetting that sometimes opens the door to a lot of extra stress we don’t need… There’s enough out there already… And this is enough blog already…
Actually the path I was going to take this thought just detoured out of my head… So it must mean it is time for a pre-game nap, some exercise, a shave & shower… And its SHOWTIME!!!
I’ll be back later… Ya’ll come back later, too…
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The Wayne County Scream Your Head Off News!!!
Pultneyville – We interrupt your regularly scheduled day with this breaking news!!!
Emergency workers responding in Pultneyville today found themselves part of a grizzly scene… According to the lone survivor of the event… Five adults, three dogs and a cat were eaten alive by a two inch, crazed field mouse… The mouse is still on the loose and considered to be dangerous… Please exercise caution and be sure to scream loudly, if you happen to sight the renegade mouse…
The lone survivor of this horrific event… A Long Island woman named Alice, who saved herself by jumping onto a kitchen counter… Unable to reach the phone to call 911… She summoned emergency workers to her home by emitting the most blood-curdling scream heard in the history of Wayne County emergency services…
Taking a page from the fishermen at the nearby marina describing the fish that got away… The Long Island woman described the mouse as ten feet long, with glistening white teeth… “The better to eat you with, my dear”, she claimed the mouse had told her…
While not directly involved in the attack Alice’s husband suffered a mild heart attack upon hearing her screams… But is now resting comfortably behind a sound proof door…
Now back to the war in Afghanistan…
Emergency workers responding in Pultneyville today found themselves part of a grizzly scene… According to the lone survivor of the event… Five adults, three dogs and a cat were eaten alive by a two inch, crazed field mouse… The mouse is still on the loose and considered to be dangerous… Please exercise caution and be sure to scream loudly, if you happen to sight the renegade mouse…
The lone survivor of this horrific event… A Long Island woman named Alice, who saved herself by jumping onto a kitchen counter… Unable to reach the phone to call 911… She summoned emergency workers to her home by emitting the most blood-curdling scream heard in the history of Wayne County emergency services…
Taking a page from the fishermen at the nearby marina describing the fish that got away… The Long Island woman described the mouse as ten feet long, with glistening white teeth… “The better to eat you with, my dear”, she claimed the mouse had told her…
While not directly involved in the attack Alice’s husband suffered a mild heart attack upon hearing her screams… But is now resting comfortably behind a sound proof door…
Now back to the war in Afghanistan…
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Laughing with the Fishes
Slightly disappointed at the postponement to record my first full length DVD "Expecting Criticality @ Anytime"... The holiday weekend and the Ginna Station refueling outage making a significant dent in the prospective attendance... I spent last weekend celebrating the birth of another grandchild and enjoying some more of our late arriving summer weather... And look forward to rescheduling that show as soon as possible.
Reviewing and rehearsing material for the Sunday September 6th “Night of Stars” show out on my deck today, speaking against the gentle waves of Lake Ontario, I was reminded of Demosthenes (384-322B.C.), the famous Greek orator.
He had placed pebbles in his mouth and while standing on the cliffs of the Grecian seashore, practiced his oratory skills against the pounding waves of the Mediterranean Sea.
While I didn’t have any pebbles this morning, the bowl of Quaker Oatmeal Squares I’m sure proved to be a healthier cereal choice.
Rather than dying in prison or at the hands of his political enemies, Demosthene ended his life with suicide by poison in 322 B.C. asking his pursuers to let his body swim with the fishes rather than burying him.
Sunday’s show is almost sold out and I’m excited about the opportunity to be a part of this star-studded performance…
Obama’s Brown Shirts aren’t here to carry me away yet, so I’m not planning suicide…
But rehearing against the waves of Lake Ontario this morning was like fishing with dynamite… I was killing ‘em!!!
Reviewing and rehearsing material for the Sunday September 6th “Night of Stars” show out on my deck today, speaking against the gentle waves of Lake Ontario, I was reminded of Demosthenes (384-322B.C.), the famous Greek orator.
He had placed pebbles in his mouth and while standing on the cliffs of the Grecian seashore, practiced his oratory skills against the pounding waves of the Mediterranean Sea.
While I didn’t have any pebbles this morning, the bowl of Quaker Oatmeal Squares I’m sure proved to be a healthier cereal choice.
Rather than dying in prison or at the hands of his political enemies, Demosthene ended his life with suicide by poison in 322 B.C. asking his pursuers to let his body swim with the fishes rather than burying him.
Sunday’s show is almost sold out and I’m excited about the opportunity to be a part of this star-studded performance…
Obama’s Brown Shirts aren’t here to carry me away yet, so I’m not planning suicide…
But rehearing against the waves of Lake Ontario this morning was like fishing with dynamite… I was killing ‘em!!!
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