As we were coming home from seeing Tool, we passed a sign advertising that Steven Wright would be performing at The Orleans Casino last weekend. C-Jane was driving and I said, “Look, Steven Wright will be in-town next week,” but since she knows Karate, she doesn’t have to listen to me anymore.
Later in the week, her parents called, and after she hung up she said, “Hey Big-J, Steven Wright is in town and he’s playing at the Orleans this weekend.”
Nodding I say, “Too bad Ticketbastards took $141 in service charges for $150 dollars’ worth of Tool tickets, otherwise we could afford to see Mr. Wright.”
C-Jane replies, “My parents saw Steven Wright last year, they’re giving us tickets for free!”
Yay! So we saw Steven Wright for free. Here is a 6-minute sample of what we got for 90-minutes. Click here to see. After watching the clip, it is easy to see why it is so hard to write about this comedian, he is too intense. Needless to say, C-Jane’s favorite joke was ‘I’m writing a book about how the end of the Cold War brought the beginning of Global Warming.”
My favorite joke he told was about seeing a baby at the beach, laying in the sun with a happy smile, and Steven saying to the baby “What are you doing here? You don’t deserve a vacation; you haven’t worked a day in your life.” He motions with his foot as if kicking sand at the baby.
That’s just awful– I’m such a mean spirited person to laugh at such jokes. And that ends my story for the week.
I know, I know, this was a short post. I’m guilty and I haven’t done too much on the Shortbus this month. I’m trying to avoid writing about politics because it makes me so incredibly unhappy. (That is the understatement of the decade.)
Okay, okay, I can’t keep my big mouth shut. Does anyone else notice all the media brain-washing going on, or is it just me? In one word – “Newt.”
Really? Didn’t the Rethuglican Party put him in a cage and bury him for 12-years because we Americans hated his double-standard lies? Now the gluttonous adulterer wants to wear the ‘president hat?’ Really?
Let’s get far away from that subject and find a safer one. One that won’t get me ‘detained indefinitely’ in a Cuban prison for being ‘belligerent’. Everybody does know about that, right? You should learn about it if you don’t know already. Then you’ll see why I cannot talk about politics anymore. “Freedom of Speech”… my ass.
Focusing on the bright side, ever-resourceful C-Jane has acquired two free-quent ‘Flier-Mile’ tickets to Seattle where we can stay with her sister for the high price of free. It is going to rain all week and we are not prepared for such weather – we live in a desert, but when has freezing rain ever hurt anybody? There is hope that we will get out of her sister’s house at least once, brave the blizzards and tear up the town. There might be interesting things to write about when we get back.
If I can post on the road, I will, otherwise I’ll be a little late next week.
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