it’s thursday night. january 4, 2008. of course, technically january 5. Obama and Huckabee just won in Iowa*. and i realized how far behind i am in the life of bloggery.

perhaps i’m just not cut out to be a blogging type person. that’s okay, there are other paths, and more than enough bloggers out there who LIKE calling themselves bloggers. i can use blogger technology, like wordpress, but still not be a blogger. i’m perfectly fine with not being a blogger. i like not being a blogger. that’s why, long ago when i first set this thing up, i was fairly adamant about this section being “the rambles,” and NOT being a blog. but Random Blog Intruder enjoyed showing up and contradicting me.

anyway, not calling myself a blogger takes off a ton of pressure. it’s that crushing weight of high expectations that gives me problems.
anyway.

i have been working on a new solo piece, “lydia’s funeral video.” it opens january 31st at a place called the dark room theater, in san francisco’s mission district. it’s a very small space, only 40 seats or so, so if i don’t fill it up i will have totally won the Game Of Failing. and i don’t need to win that game–i’ve already won a few times, someone else should win**. so i encourage you to come see it–there are nine shows total, thursday – saturday, january 31 – february 16, 2008.

so here’s how the postcard sums up the show (i wrote the postcard text, so i don’t exactly feel like i’m cheating here by repeating copy i already developed [yet somehow a part of me still feels guilty]):

“The not-so-distant future. A dream-invading embryo. An obsession with the apocalypse. And four weeks to shoot a video, do some standup comedy, and terminate a pregnancy. Holy shit.”

yeah, that about sums it up. although perhaps i should have changed the order around, to read thus:

“The not-so-distant future. An obsession with the apocalypse. A dream-invading embryo. And four weeks to shoot a video, do some standup comedy, and terminate a pregnancy. Holy shit.”

i think the guilt comes from summing up the show without using a single complete sentence.

so it’s a new year***. and a new show. and i find both of these things to be not insignificant.

information for LFV is here:

http://www.whiskeyandacigarette.org/calendar/index.php?op=view&id=203

*From this simple statement about the Iowa caucus, the Gentle Reader might infer that whiskeyandacigarette posts are topical & political, and potentially insightful, incisive, and illuminating; also, alliterative. The Gentle Reader would be right. Whiskeyandacigarette is, truly, magnificent.
**IMPORTANT NOTE: some might infer from this double-asterisked sentence that i’m feeling down, and am making defeatist remarks about my habit of failing in life. not so; i simply liked the general notion of winning at the game of failing, and followed my fancy to its inevitable conclusion.

***ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: happy new year, fuckers. thought i wasn’t gonna say it? i just did. haHA.

****I really need to use numbered foot notes instead of this multiple-asterisking bullshit. what the fuck? i can’t work under these conditions.