4th Attempt at Stand Up

I tried stand up comedy again this weekend. It was the fourth time I've been on stage. It was a rough crowd though and I really couldn't do much of my material. I had about 14 minutes of stuff, but gave up after 10 minutes. But I learned a lot and I think I have a much greater appreciation for anyone who does public performances. It's not easy and all of the time and effort put into it can be ruined by one or two bad audience members. 

Thanksgiving

I'm very thankful I'm living in Japan, a country that doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving. Squanto should have let them starve. And that also means no Black Friday. Such a dumb idea. Let's go out and by a bunch of crap we don't really need at 50% off just to celebrate some dude's birthday on the wrong day. If you wait until March most of the stuff will probably be 80% and you'll actually be celebrating at least in the right month.

France, Stand Up Comedy, and a bunch other random stuff.

I'm supposed to do another stand up routine next week, but with the attacks in France and all of the ensuing social media arguments and debates I've foolishly got myself into over the past few days I'm finding it real hard to feel and be funny. I guess anyone who tries stand up or any other type of public performance has to expect a few bad gigs now and then, but it just feels strange to go from such a high less than a week ago to such a low this week.

I've always been pretty hyper-aware of all the terrible shit in the world, how could you not be in cyberspace, and I've never been shy about expressing my opinion (far Left btw, if you haven't guessed from any of my previous posts), but this week it just all seemed so pointless. I realized once again that debating on social media even with links to endless believed facts is nothing more than a way to semi-safely vent your anger in real time.

And more often than not I'm flinging my anger at people that are supposed to be my friends. I'm seriously thinking about only posting shit about cats and food on all social media sites from now on. I'm tired of all the drama created by me and others. Nothing good every comes of it other than a bunch of angry endless pissed off posts.

I think I should take the good advice that is ironically posted on the various social media sites to take a break and shut the computer off for a while.

Alan Moore's advice on Pubishing

A little short on the details of "how to" and the pitfalls, but inspiring nonetheless.

http://io9.com/alan-moore-advises-new-writers-to-self-publish-because-1743575906?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

My Starbucks cup

Great Advice on Self-Publishing

http://publishedtodeath.blogspot.jp/2012/11/how-to-build-your-own-author-platform.html

Happy Veteran's Day

3rd Time Doing Stand up

I did a 10 minute stand up routine the other night. Third time I've been on stage. I got some laughs, so I think it went pretty well. I'm hoping to do some more in 2016. It was a little scary, but pretty fun as well.

X-mas music blues

X-mas music already playing in Starbucks???? The corpse of Halloween isn't even cold yet and they have to pull this out.