Lingering feels.
Have you ever listened to Cypress Hill and thought, “does B–Real have a sinus infection?” Well, DJ REAL did, AND he wrote a song about it with lines like “My white blood cells bust a move when I sleep” and “Oh no! I got bronchitis again!” Most parody songs are a pop culture shill, aiming to be seen …
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Daddy Issues Issues is an on-going feature in anticipation of Matt Gubser’s album taping in San Francisco tonight, 4/18/2015. Check back here every Saturday for updates. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. A random night in a random bar. Jokes, laughs, lulls, vigil outside, baseball on the television. Not sure if these are …
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Daddy Issues Issues is an on-going feature in anticipation of Matt Gubser’s album taping in San Francisco on 4/18/2015. Check back here every Saturday for updates. Part 1. Part 2. Part 4. Long hours, late nights and low-to-no pay. These are the terms one must come to terms with. It’s work and it sucks. …
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Daddy Issues Issues is an on-going feature in anticipation of Matt Gubser’s album taping in San Francisco on 4/18/2015. Check back here every Saturday for updates. Part 1. Part 3. Part 4. Most of pursing joketelling as a profession is managing your expectations. Bad set at an open mic when you haven’t bombed …
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Daddy Issues Issues is an on-going feature in anticipation of Matt Gubser’s album taping in San Francisco on 4/18/2015. Check back here every Saturday for updates. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Matt Gubser has a hard task in front of him; hard, not impossible. He has to generate enough interest to fill 90 seats …
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“Help us and we will continue be the media that you want to hear–and that the media needs to hear.” — Elon James White, one of my jedi masters*, in a TWiBnation bumper soliciting donations. Need is ever so interesting. It propels the most innate and pressing concerns to the extreme of death if …
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I quit comedy on July 7th 2014. It was glorious. Upwards to twenty people underlit by candles in a Mission-Protero eatery: the Rite Spot Cafe. Despite years of yearning, I had never played there, so, I reached out to my friend, hilarious rapscallion Trevor Hill, and he put me up to, ostensibly, put me out. …
Continue reading "“So… I Quit Comedy”: A Journal by OJ Patterson"It’s t-minus fifteen minutes. The audience remains translucent. 49-seats of emptiness connects two pools of light. In the lobby Wigglesworth, nicest cyberpirate, watches the door with French bulldog, Wellington, lazily laying nearby. Across the moody, barren strait, a smattering of chattery, the loudest voice belonging to Bucky Sinister. Bucky has probably heard some offensive …
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House shows are the best shows. Every time the elegant edifice of modern comedy is torn from it’s standard, swarmy platforms — bars, clubs, theaters — and moved to naturalistic, “acoustic” settings, the best of the medium infuses with the luxury of living [rooms]. They are a temporal hybrid of contemporary DIY, boundless work ethic …
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