I want to be a comedian. The rock stars get all the chicks, the comedians have all the fun. Backstage at a rock concert is a boring hierarchy of self-important pricks jockeying for access to tired musicians who are barely verbal to begin with. Backstage at a comedy club is an endless visit to the […]

My mother wants to sell the house in Vermont. I don’t know what to do with the past.  Oh, I own it, but is it still part of me.  Who I used to be, am I still the same person? I didn’t go to the house in Vermont for fifteen years.  I couldn’t.  The last […]

I thought I was never going to have sex again. Funny how out of town you’ll do shit that you wouldn’t THINK of doing at home.  Ribfest?  SURE! There’s some back story here, which I can’t remember.  Lewi was going on about this, how it’s a Clear Channel production, but I’m not into sideshow, I’m […]

In the cab on the way to the airport I realized how ugly L.A. is.  It’s like sixties mall culture gone haywire.  Endless mini-malls with signage insuring you just can’t miss the unnecessary product the proprietors are purveying. Then again, the landscape had nothing on the people at LAX.  Remember when your dad used to […]