When I heard there was going to be a Nirvana reunion performance for the 12-12 concert for Sandy victims I, naturally, thought, “Huh.  I can see a serious roadblock to that plan…”  But, okay.  For a good cause and all that. Then I heard that Paul McCartney would be filling in for the deceased Kurt […]

A while back I wrote about one of the first paid stand-up comedy gigs I ever had, in the lovely Winnemucca, Nevada.  (Here, if you want a little context for today’s story)  At the end of it, I mentioned a guy from the casino taking us out to show us Winnemucca’s “nightlife.”  I said it […]

So I was planning to publish a post today that I’ve wound up working on for a week, and it’s still not quite done. Between it and last week’s video, I’ve apparently decided to start focusing on posts that require more time to put together than my entire readership will collectively spend looking at them. […]

The baby is 8 weeks old now, which means it was time for KB’s first round of immunizations on Thursday.  “Some babies fuss and cry throughout the night,” the doctor said, “some cry for a little while and then just want to sleep it off.”  I don’t know what she said after that, because all […]

The following is taken from this year’s international broadcast of The Byronic Man Christmas Special… *** Okay, calm down people!  Stop yelling at the computer demanding to know how to enter this contest RIGHT NOW.  First thing’s first: you need to take a moment and head over to Go Jules Go and watch her video […]

There aren’t many things in life you can know for sure but here are two – It’s scientific fact: Everything is better with cheese on it. Also fact: Everything is better with actor Michael Keaton in it. But sometimes it can be confusing to know which is the better improvement for a given situation.  Sure, […]

Well, this week’s vote on the caption contest was a real nail-biter!  Okay, you probably weren’t obsessively checking.  And if you were, you may not have been, in fact, biting your nails in anticipation.  Which is good, because – really – that’s a terrible habit.  So’s knuckle-popping.  And I say that as a compulsive knuckle-popper. […]

Hey, quick post, and great opportunity to stop and take a moment to remember something great:  Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. With all the scandal and weirdness that became the Jackson carnival of schadenfreude, it can be easy to forget that Thriller is just a jaw-dropping, rock-solid brilliant […]