penneylaneonline for Monday, October 29, 2007

I miss the open spaces of my childhood but I'm caught in a bind. The city is where I've lived most of my life but it's the smell of the country that makes me feel alive again, the smell of open space and it's reminder of a different kind of days work that makes sleeping at night a cinch. Country people have that all over city people for sure. Don't get me wrong, country people have their fair share of worries too and they're not immune to the kind of pressures (Banks foreclosing on loans) that... Sign in to see full entry.

Many comedians these days rely alot on finding shock tactics to deliver the all too familiar four-letter 'f' word to every respectable sentence that ever graced a stage. I wonder sometimes if that's just a lack of vocabulary on their part! A good comedian (I think) has a repetoire of clever-witted (as opposed to dim-witted) speak that is not only intellectually engaging but also theatrically competent. I miss that about so much of what gets passed off for stand-up. I've often thought that if the... Sign in to see full entry.