It was a bounteous year for comic relief: Here’s your Top 10! Be still, your beating hearts. As we exultantly find ourselves in this festive place once again. The most wonderful time of the year. When squealing children race home from school to check and [more...]
Journal entry: November 5, 1984 (age 15) – Election ’84 Before tonight, I had never seen a half-hour TV commercial for a presidential candidate. As I watched the man I support give a kind of closing argument for his candidacy, I started to despair. I [more...]
Journal entry: October 28, 2008 (age 39) Ah, the sounds of the season. Nothing brings home the holiday cheer more than the traditional music inspired by this magical time of year. We can all relate to the familiar comforts of an old-style family holiday, set [more...]
Journal entry: February 23, 1988 (age 18) — Cleanliness Earlier tonight, I was sitting in my SUNY Oswego dorm room, reading my Introduction to Meteorology textbook. But I wasn’t merely sitting. Through extensive trial and error, I have come up with the perfect studying position. [more...]
Fukushima Sushi Which is harder to believe? The ludicrous shenanigans going down in Washington or the fact that nobody seems particularly interested in doing anything about them? Good neighbors — it looks like we got ourselves one heck of a bumper crop of official dysfunction [more...]
Journal entry: October 15, 2007 (age 38) — Playing Doctor “Did you ever see that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer and Mickey get hired to pretend they have various ailments so that medical students can practice their skills?” That’s how I usually describe a part-time [more...]
Journal entry: October 18, 2001 (age 32) — Septum “I’ve seen thousands of deviated septums, and yours is one of the worst I’ve ever seen.” I blushed a bit and said, “You otolaryngologists say the sweetest things.” That was several months ago, at my first [more...]
Journal entry: September 23, 2008 (age 39) Once in a great while, a marketing campaign can actually make you stop using a product that you’ve used for years. Recently, I’ve started seeing ads for “clinical strength antiperspirant.” So far, so good. I think I fit [more...]
Will Durst performs his new one-man show, “BoomeRaging: From LSD to OMG” to a big, appreciative crowd in Sacramento Five-time Emmy nominee Will Durst performed his new one-man show, “BoomeRaging: From LSD to OMG” at the 24th Street Theatre in Sacramento last night, presented by [more...]
“3 Still Standing” — new film documents the staying power of three determined comedians The husband-and-wife team of Robert Campos and Donna LoCicero have nearly completed “3 Still Standing,” a documentary that highlights the careers of three comedians who started their careers in San Francisco [more...]