"GAY MAN STOPS TROOP SURGE"

Update:

I have an improv group named Honor Student Breakfast and we have a set this Sunday at the Playground theatre at 9:30. It's the last day of our 3 week run there. We have an Xmas show on Dec 19th.

I have a band called Manipulation. We'll be recording an ep on Jan 17th. E-mail if you want to hear it.

The other night on the way to an improv class I ran into an anti-war rally. I agree with that, so I stood at the perimeter for a minute. A guy asked me if I could help hold a banner, and I obliged. "But only for a minute," I said. Then the guy with the megaphone said, "Let's march!" and everyone turned around, facing me and putting me at the front of the march. I mean the very front, so that I was leading it and the only people in front of me were cops. The banner was unfurled. It was a big and pink and read, "STOP THE OCCUPATION - Gay Liberation Front". I carried it at the front of the march for about 5 blocks as the pressed snapped pictures of me. Then I had to get to improv class so I turned around. It was really fun for a while though.

I recently got the first Swans LP, Filth, which is brutal.

Big Hot Dog

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"George" is my friend, and the purveyors of the product are friendly aquaintances. The thing that I like about this is that it's not a sketch. This is a real product that is actually being marketed in this fashion.

Better Truth Than the Real One

Biotech Lobbyists Write Statements for Dozens of Lawmakers
In healthcare news, the New York Times has revealed that biotech lobbyists recently ghostwrote statements by dozens of lawmakers that were submitted into the Congressional Record. The lobbyists were employed by Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss drug giant Roche. Genentech estimates that forty-two House members picked up some of its talking points—twenty-two Republicans and twenty Democrats.

Step 1 Complete

My show was a huge success. Not only did people come, they laughed, and a two week run of a half-hour show earned me hundreds of dollars. Also, I had my first show with my improv group called Honors Student Breakfast on Sunday at that went pretty darn well. Plus, making all my accomplishments totally unimportant, I saw DEVO on 11/12/09. They played all of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo in order, plus Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA and Gates of Steel as encores. I was as happy as an orphan getting parents. It should be noted that I got to see MK-Ultra a while ago too, and that was awesome. Also Godfodder. It should be noted that I really love seeing punk bands. Mine's recording a record in January.

A year later and I'm finally off to a good start.

Unrepentant Bragging

From the Sorry State Records website:

Manipulation: Demo Tape
$3.00
IF THIS ISN'T THE BEST DEMO OF THE PAST FIVE YEARS I WILL GLADLY EAT MY HAT. Seriously, Chicago's Manipulation is a new hardcore supergroup featuring members of Chronic Seizure, Pedestrians, and Civic Progress, and they have blown me the fuck away with this demo... so raw, urgent, and in your face. This is like the perfect mix of atmopsheric, Discharge-inspired hardcore like Invasion and Destino Final mixed with the raw, battering aggression of bands like Deathreat. Fuck... I just can't say enough good things about this. 7 songs on a pro-printed tape... get this now because you WILL hear about this band and mark my words they will be the hot shit within the next year or so.

Also my show's going well.

I'm feeling pretty full of myself right now.

All Aboard the Poop Pants Express! Toot Toot!

My head is exploding like a soda bottle, except instead of soda it's snot. So I spent the day reading a text book about the Early Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages, and falling in and out of crazy medieval nightmares. In one of them I got somebody pregnant and had to deal with the consequences. That one wasn't medieval, just a nightmare.

I've learned a lot. Remember Charlemange, that character you immediately discarded after completing 10th grade world history? The reason he is important is because he completed the official joining of Church and State, thereby creating the beginning of Western European culture. Now everyone in Western Europe was subject to the same rule of law, and personal edict of shame. It's important to remember that as late as the 800 A.D.s, Western Europeans were brutal, stupid, ugly and illiterate. After Charlemagne, they were still all those things, but Christian as well. Charlemagne made Latin the international language of the Church and scholarship, assuring everyone would have a personal relationship with God in a language they did not understand.

What we think of as The Dark Ages are really the beginning of culture in Europe. Think of how much darker it must have been before that - you'd have people eating people, shoes made of sharp rocks that you have to step on, and daily testicle slammings, probably. I'd give recorded examples of their depravity, but they were all destroyed by the Holy Catholic Church in order to rid the world of Paganism.

In one of my medieval nightmares, I was in a dark monastery, caught between an Arianist, someone who believed that Jesus was entirely mortal, and a Monophysist, someone who believed that Jesus was entirely God. Tempers flared, and you could cut the tension with a knife. I woke up in cold sweat, yelling, "The Nicene Creed!". Jesus was of both substance. If only they'd drafted that creed sooner, so many pointless lives could have been saved.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a healthy day where I learn nothing.

I Have Some Shows

My sketch show, "Endangered No More!" goes up at the Gorilla Tango Theatre on Novermber 6th and 13th. It's a comedy written by me, performed and directed by friends of mine. My musical group, Manipulation, will be playing with Condominium on September 26th at the Albion House, and then in Elgin a few days later.

If you want to know more, ask me.

I have to say it's been a good summer. I seem to generally well liked by people I like, and I found a youtube video where a guy pukes on the news that makes me endlessly happy.