 | Currently listening : Year of the Dog...Again By DMX Release date: By 01 August, 2006 |
Hello all:
Please come see me in The PeepHole at Second City Chicago! I guarantee you will be brought to smiles and laughs with this crazy production!
 | Currently listening : Barbra Streisand - Greatest Hits By Barbra Streisand Release date: By 25 October, 1990 |
I'm a big proponent of using the internet for communication provided you have a fundamental understanding of what communication means. According to Merriam-Webster's Online dictionary:
Main Entry: communication
Pronunciation: k&-"myü-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : an act or instance of transmitting
2 a : information communicated b : a verbal or written message
3 a : a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior
4 plural a : a system (as of telephones) for communicating b : a system of routes for moving troops, supplies, and vehicles c : personnel engaged in communicating
5 plural but singular or plural in construction a : a technique for expressing ideas effectively (as in speech) b : the technology of the transmission of information (as by print or telecommunication)
I'm gonna go with the third definition. I read this article about people going out physically on dates just to converse and hook up online. WTF?! Are people that socially inept that we can no longer talk to each other face-to-face?
As much as I am dismayed by the thought of our social interactions being reduced to mere 0's and 1's, I've been accused of the same behavior by the use and referencing of this blog 
To the lonely people out there, you've got your avenue to at least be talking to a real person. The problem is, it doesn't get you any further than where you are in actually having some real-world intimacy with them. *sigh* At least this provides us a sure fire way of combating STDs...unless you get a virus from that other person! DOH!
 | Currently listening : The Marshall Mathers LP By Eminem |
Mel Gibson. Got a DUI. Everyone in the media was shocked. He said some stuff about Jews controlling Hollywood and running the world while he was drunk. He asked the arresting officer if he was a Jew. Mel made a movie about a famous Jew that died for our sins and got in trouble then. Everyone was shocked. Mel has apologized for his actions and is now in rehab. The world made a realization. Mel Gibson is human and makes mistakes.
Why do we hold celebrities at a higher standard than the rest of us?
 | Currently reading : Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Vol. 2) By Timothy Zahn Release date: By 01 February, 1993 |
One of the reoccuring topics I touch on in my stand up is Michael Jackson. I make analogous references to him when talking about stuff going on in my life and need a little zinger to keep people interested in the story I'm telling. It's weird because I was with him all up through the Dangerous record then him and his career all went to hell. I've tried sticking up for him but he makes it difficult for me.
In his littany of lawsuits over the years (and especially in the last few months), this article once again reminds me of just how INSANE MJ has become! All these people are trying to represent his interests but Michael is too bad to let them. This isn't 1983 Michael! You haven't had a thriller in years! Yourcash flow has been weak for quite some time so I know that your last record going platinum a few years ago still can't afford to buy Bubbles a washrag. Billie Jean, a.k.a, Debbie Rowe, is your babymomma asking you for custody and child support, you beat it to Bahrain for a while and now to England to get away from the ranch and the controversy, the man in the mirror looks more like a ghostly jack-o-lantern skull head than Tito's little brother, grown-ass people from 25 years ago keep saying you freed Willy and they've never been the same since, like a smooth criminal you either showed up late or never showed up to your own court cases...Ma ma say ma ma sa de ma coo sah! C'mon Michael ! The way you make me feel sometimes, I wanna be startin' somethin'...like beating you down and jam some damn sense into you! You're completely off the wall! Black or White, if you don't stop till you get enough, you'll end up broke, in jail talking to a rat named Ben in Emerald City! You'll be someone's bitch...they'll call you The Whiz...they're gonna rock with you...all night.
I like the music. Question the man. Ah hee hee!
 | Currently listening : Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album By Reel Big Fish Release date: By 15 August, 2006 |
