Still Breathing

Friday night was my New York debut at Stand - Up NY. It's a small club on the upper West Side of Manhattan. I really didn't expect a full house. I thought that maybe there would be about 25 people there - friends of the acts. I didn't have any trouble with speaking in front of a room full of strangers presenting my creative ideas. I worked in Advertising for 12 years and routinely had my creative work shit on by hostile clients. You develop an extremely thick skin "Oh, don't like that? Next..." It went well, better than I could have hoped. My good pal Vanx Verb-Ops did me the honor of a review - check it out. Still alive, grinning and weeping. I hope the world remains full of things that annoy and revolt me. - Cheers!
The Chimp

Countdown to ecstasy...

Tomorrow night I'll be appearing at Stand-Up New York.
Stand Up NY is located at 78 street and Broadway in New York's Upper West Side. Home to Seinfeld. It's a group show that begins at 7PM. Stop by if you're in the mood for flop sweat and B/O.
Wocka,wocka,wocka - Chimp.

Funny Ha-Ha or Funny tragic?

Whenever you try to take an avocation to the professional level there is a mountain of worry. I can make people laugh. I've been told - you missed your calling, you should have been a comedian. I now know that they were only trying to get rid of me. Encouraging me to try something else - somewhere else. It must happen all the time. The garbageman who's told by his buddies "you like to argue, you should have been a lawyer" Quits his job and tries to make it with his 3rd grade education.

Cry, Baby

Looking over recent post all I can say is
Waaaaahh! Get on with it. I guess a weeping
chimp can weep too much, eh?

Gotta do something 'cause I cain't do this no more!

It sometimes takes longer for some to realize that they should move on.
I get complacent and end up over-staying my welcome. Corporate America
will always roll out the welcome mat for you only to unceremoniously
yank it out from under you. It happens all the time. My father worked
at the same job for 35 years. Poor bastard. I worked at the same place
for a time and was there when he was shunted aside and finally told to
retire at age 71. He only had a 3rd grade education but somehow had
managed to secure a position in the Personnel Department. I guess as time
went on he was seen as a poor human resource and was given the option
to quit or accept re-assignment as an Admin. One of his buddies at the
company found a place for him in his group so Dad, who had hired most
of the people at the company was rewarded for his loyalty with a token.
Theman only had a GED which he gained at age 60 and having a young family
(I was 10 when he was 60) he had to suck it up and take it for the sake
of the wife and kids. I'm fortunate to be able to be corporate-fukt and
try to find a different way. So long to Kernie, Darrin, Bald P-Balls,
Baby Beluga, The Inscrutable Isei, Sonny from I-Robot, Fetal Tom,
The Spill-Meister, Stinkat, Christmas Cake and Fingers.