My Punchline Debut

Here's the video of my first time doing stand up comedy. It was a dream of mine and I finally achieved it. Now that my wedding is finished and I've had some time to work on some new material, I'll be doing it again. And of course I will record it (hopefully in video form, but at least in audio form) and share it here.

Irony on the train

I saw irony in action this morning on the bus. A skrawny, skinny little white chick gets on the train wearing an Apple Bottom jacket.



That could be either irony or false advertsing. If you look at a woman's back and it says Apple Bottom, then that is what you'd expect to see. When you instead see... nothing... you can't help but laugh.

Why are rappers trying to be rock musicians?

I'm sure by now you've heard te abysmal "Party Like A Rock Star" by the Shop Boys. It's sets my eye twitching just thinking about the cries of 'Totalllllllly dude!"

Yesterday on the radio I heard a crappy song sampling "Rock N' Roll All Nite" by Kiss and bragging about a rock star life.


Seriously people, this is going too far. Sampling a rock song for a rap song is fine. A little unoriginal, but it can be done well (see the Trick Daddy song that sampled Crazy Train, and Nas - Theif's Theme where he samples Ina-Godda-Da-Vida).

I know rock stars live luxurious lifestyles you see on MTV, and live on a seemingly different level than rockers, though in years past rockers started wearing bling and crap like that. but that doesn't mean yuo need to start wearing a "skul belt and wallet chain" (accessories I heard rapper about in both above mentioned crappy songs). Honestly, how many people still wear wallet chains? A few skaters maybe, but those went the way of the Jnco ultra huge baggy jeans back years ago in high school.

While this is annoying, it can lead to unintentionally humor. Homegrown pretenders and wanna be rappers on MySpace are always funny, but ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to present:
The Ruby Redd Band

http://www.myspace.com/therubyreddband


Take a listen and tell me that isn't hilariously awesomely lame!

Encouragement in the most unlikely places.

I'm a white male and I date a black woman, a relationship that unfortunately still causes some raised eyebrows from time to time. No one has ever said anything negative to my face, but on occasion you'll see those disproving stares or the sidelong glances.

The other weekend though we were at a RaceTrac gas station getting their Icee knock-off, and as we walked in another guy was walking up to the door as well. A freakin' tall dude looks at us and says: "The world needs more of that, that's how I got here."

How awesome is that?

Doesn't Mirapex sound AWESOME?!

It's a pill for Restless Leg Syndrome.

Potential side effects? It can increase your desire to gamble and have sex.

GREAT! BUt the restlessness of my legs has moved to my loins.

I wonder who the first guy was...

Who said "Why don't you get a better job!" When some kid asked him "Hey mister, how about a tip?"

I'm gonna start a band!

It's gonna be easy. I'll find a bunch of Mexicans and have them play pop-punk covers. We'll call the band GreenCard.