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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Courage.

I just sent out an e-mail to everyone I know.
One e-mail for this weeks, "Lick Your Wounds" show. That's at the Cornservatory (4210 n. Lincoln) at 11pm on Fridays.
Apparently, the Reader has confirmed for this week. %100, they'll be there to review it.
Another e-mail for the upcoming Kansas City Fringe Festival. It's getting close and it is altogether possible that someone from Kansas City is reading this blog at this very moment. If you are out there and you just came from the www.kcfringe.org website, then welcome. It's nice to meet you. Be sure to introduce yourself to me when you come out to "The Farm" to see me. I'll be the guy in the shirt. You'll be the young lady dabbing your eyes with a handkerchief as my train pulls away from the station. And that's how we fell in love.

So when I perform, I'll say a lot of dumb stuff like that. That's what I do. I do very little sense.

I'm getting excited about the KC shows. First of all, home is home, no matter how long I live in Chicago. I'm still from Kansas City. I had a nice conversation with Ed Asner on the streets of Chicago a couple years ago wherein he confirmed this. He and my sisters went to the same high school in Kansas City. Of course, he went when the high schools were still segregated. Wyandotte was the all balding news editor high school while Sumner High School was for chirpy, peppy, news writers. Everyone else was home schooled. And then Kansas City was burned down in the Great Chicago Fire. Only Ed Asner survived because he was drunk in the water tower.
Yep. He was drunk in the Water Tower by an old lady in a moo-moo. And that moo-moo's name was Bessy. Bessy went on to marry Norman Lear who created such great shows as "When Norman Lear Attacks" and "The Norman Lear Experience" and finally toward the end before the vespa accident which left him riddled with syphillis, he put out the short-lived cult classic, "Norman Lear is thinking dot blogspot dot com." which nobody saw or indeed will ever see as it was a radio script performed in 3D.

This has been, "Today in Black History Today."

I'm Dan Rather.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I always like reading you blog. This time, I think I woke the wife and kid with my laughter.
But then I've always enjoyed a man who can juggle bread in a griocery store.

Wed Jul 06, 03:37:00 AM CDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ed Asner invented bungee jumping...In Kansas City.

Yep.

Wed Jul 06, 07:01:00 PM CDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw one of your sets in Kansas City and nothing's been right since. i think it's because your mom and my dad have the same birthday and even birth year, which at first seems pretty random until you realize that you never see the two of them together, meaning that there is some parallel juxtaposition happening here and that Chris Churchill and I were never meant to be in the same room at the same time, so when we were, at the Fringe festival, there was some matter/anti-matter thing that happened that has set in motion the beginning of the End Times with Capital Letters, and the Bush Administration is pissed because they wanted to do that first.

Mon Aug 01, 02:18:00 PM CDT  

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