Friday, October 31, 2003  

Halloweenie

I actually got up early today to work on my new computer. I am one pair of panties on my head away from being AnthonyMichael Hall in Weird Science.

On the plus side, I'm posting this via GNOME-blog, a kickass little applet you can run from your panel in Linux.
I don't know why I call the geekiest thing I ever wrote "the plus side."

TONIGHT: I will be performing at the KOWLOON in Saugus. One show only at 9:00. Halloween in Saugus; I'd like to have the hairspray concession THERE!

Geek, Writer, Comic, Me

All my computer parts finally arrived (thank you, FedEx, bawk bawk!) and so I was up late, late, late last night putting it all together and getting the OS(es) installed. The temptation to brag about my tech is great, but I'm trying to remind myself that the whole point of this blog is to drive traffic TO my shows, not away. Suffice it to say that I geeked out late enough into the night that I'm compltely rumpled and unshaven today. I look like goddamn Emmett Kelley.

It's raining so bad in Boston today that it's pretty clear someone is being punished for something. I don't know which one of you is worshipping craven idols, but knock it off. I can't afford a flooded basement right now.

I'm torn about going to class tonight. I should go...it's the first week that someone's presenting their actual story, and I should see how it goes AND build up some karma, but I so want to just go home and play with the new machine. My story is progressing nicely...it's good and dark. I'm challenging myself to NOT write something funny in this class (I should submit this blog, then), and my piece is somewhere between melodramatic and morbid. Hopefully, I'll whip it into shape.

Health tip: if you are staying up late, a midnight snack of apple juice and baked beans is a poor, poor choice.

Weekend Roundup

I have neither smoked nor drank since Friday, and I feel much better for it. I'm chewing gum like an obsessive/compulsive today, but other than that, I am most re-dedicated to the path of righteous, nicotene-free living.

Great shows at Nicks Comedy Stop this weekend. Steve Kimbrough hosted, and in addition to doing a bangup job of wrangling the barely-controlled entropy that is a Nicks crowd, he also really changed my thinking about comedy festivals and contests. Essentially, he pointed out that participating in or winning such a thing is superfluous and that the real goal is to be in a room with a lot of people with whom to network and work with. He's a smart guy, that Mr. Kimbrough, and I'm hoping Tony Moschetto gets involved in his Comedy Film Festival.

Tonight I'm participating in the Halloween show at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge. Should be a blast. Apparently, I'm playing the mailroom boy from Fangoria Magazine. I don't claim to know much about horror, but Dan Sally says I just have to be mean to the comics. Done and done. The plan was to get drunk and be mean to the comics, but the thought of booze still makes my face ache.