newspaper coverage, a good speech by mc cain, jessie jackson and other morons

tomorrow, strangely enough, i will be featured in two newspapers, worlds apart; the las vegas sun and the hilton head island packett. i haven't had all that much press since i came back to work in 2000 so it is nice to see my happy smiling face in newspapers. we had a running story in the bloomington, indiana newspaper when rhonda and i got married. she was living there and working for the university and up and quit to go marry a basically unknown comic and then our wedding made the news because of its unusual character. i was married in my back yard by the POPE OF THE CHURCH OF LOGICAL THOUGHT, a church that i founded here in las vegas strictly for the purpose of appointing a pope who could then marry me. my friend, steve epstein, of TEXAS OUTLAW COMICS fame, was and is the pope. steve does frank sinatra impersonations so he was dressed as frank for the service and sang I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU as part of the service. it was great fun and the bloomington newspaper thought so too and wrote a couple of articles on rhonda and me.

prior to listening to siren song of tv and moving from here to los angeles in 93 i was incredibly popular with the press here, the two newspapers wrote about me regularly, i was a frequent guest on the local tv shows and could almost always be found on your radio dial on the rock stations. if i had stayed here instead of going to lala land no telling what would have happened; probably my own show in one of the casinos ala rita rudner or george wallace. i let too many people influence me to move instead of following my own council. oh well, maybe i can start it all up again. vegas does not have ageism, if you are a good performer and can draw people into your room you can get a deal. whether i am up to a weekly grind though is questionable. i like working 20-25 weeks a year and playing poker or swimming the rest of the time with a trip over to l.a. to see the dodgers every now and then. thanks to xm and sirius radio, we do a nice little business over the net in c.d.'s and dvd's and with rhonda being a cpa and thus always employable i don't have to worry about making a lot of money. the only reason i would like to be a "star" is so that i could play to larger audiences. it is the making people laugh that is my high. oh, 20k per week would be cool, don't get me wrong, but it is not the motivating factor in my life and hasn't been since i have been in comedy. matter of fact, comedy is the very first thing i had ever done where money was not the motivating factor.

on to something else: is jessie jackson stupid or jealous or both? wants to cut off obama's nuts and, to add insult to injury, used the "n" word as well. he said that obama was talking down to black people when he called on black men to take responsibility for children they have fathered. of course, bill cosby had done the same thing, does the reverend jackson want to cut off his balls too? AND what kind of MINISTER (CHRISTIAN AT THAT!) would say something like that? is that what jesus would do? give me a fucking break. jackson has become a caricature of his former self. what someone needs to do is cut off jackson's microphone.

senator mc cain gave a great speech at the naacp and kudos to him for doing it. unlike some other republicans, mc cain does not seem to me a racist and would not be that bad of a president for minorities other than for his adherance to untolerable republican financial positions which hurt the poor more than any other group and the poor are mostly people of color. unlike many in his party, senator mc cain is not against some kind of immigration policy that is not just "throw them out!" which seems to be the position of many of the rank and file on the republican side.

all these banks and other financial institutions (think bear-stearns) who are in deep shit have or had excutives who were or are paid millions of dollars for their "knowledge and experience." they are so fucking smart they thought people who have bad credit are going to somehow change their ways and start paying mortgages with esculating rates. they were so smart they thought the housing market would go up 15-20% per year indefinately. these same excutives have bloody hands when it comes to the huge financial problems that our country now faces. if i was a stockholder of any of these companies which are now in a tailspin i would be asking for a refund of the monies paid to these MORONS.

it is 103 here at 12:30 in the afternoon, think i will take a dip in the pool.