Late update. Been one of those days. I smoked alot last night while trying to write an article. I was happy with the progress, but eventually I looked up and it was nearly 2a, so I’m a little out of it today. Have been faking my way through the day at work, despite a couple important meetings at which I showcased some recent progress on a couple of things. I feel bad because at 11p last night my aunt wrote asking if I could meet for breakfast today. She was suddenly in town for a college reunion thing and was actually staying just a couple blocks from where I work. But, the notice was too late, and the timing very bad. I feel bad, but also she really should have let me know she was in town this weekend if she really, truly wanted to meet.<\/p>\n
Saturday night I went to a friend’s place for appetizers and fancies (I didn’t drink), and then the ten of us went to Gotham Comedy Club to watch some stand-up. It was my first time seeing a big name standup guy, and I must say it was very fun. The headliner was a huge black dude from MAD-TV named Aries Spears, and he was great. He stuck to race for at least half of the set, which was a little tired, but his jokes were so offensive and brutal that it was still funny.<\/p>\n
I went through a period of life where I was obsessed with the “classic” standup artists. This would be Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Stephen Wright, Bill Cosby– people like that. I started downloading their complete discographies and putting them on my ipod and falling asleep to them at night, hoping to enter dreams smiling. My other strong association with those stand up recordings is the long bus ride I used to have to take from NYC to Toronto every other week. That’s a 13 hour trip, perfect for the 60g iPod from 2007, and I used to listen to standup most of the way, and back. Thing had like, 20 hours of battery life.<\/p>\n
Stephen Wright and George Carlin are my two favorites of all time. My favorite line of Wright’s (whose whole routine is one liners and dark wordplays) is: “I wish my first word was “quote” so right before I die I could say “end quote.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Out of it today.<\/p>\n I’ve done work, and am still working. I have a Hollow Way jam with the sax player, but I’m just not in the mood. Might bail. 3 hours until that. I have two more things to write before 6. A 1.5 page update report on the agent model project, and a first draft of a longer article I was working on very late last night.<\/p>\n I trained hard yesterday and didn’t get the rest I needed so today my eyes are red and I look angry and dangerous. But I dressed nicely. I wonder if that counteracts or reinforces. It turns out people think I look good in white collar shirts. That would simply things, I could just where them all the time. I know the word is wear. But I’m too tired to change it. It’s easier to just keep typing.<\/p>\n Time for more coffee. Which also means time to be very careful of my white collar shirt.<\/p>\n Have a great start of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Late update. Been one of those days. I smoked alot last night while trying to write an article. I was happy with the progress, but eventually I looked up and it was nearly 2a, so I’m a little out of … Continue reading