houston shows and a plug for RMT.
greetings from houston, just finished at the COMEDY SHOWCASE and it was just great! danny martinez has owned this club since 84 and this is his new building and the club is extraordinary! a world class comedy showroom, top of the line in everything. holds 250 and we sold out (sro) all four shows and the room was duly rocked.
on thursday, i went to see opening night at RADIO MUSIC THEATER, for their new show, GRANDPA HASN'T MOVED IN DAYS. i have told you guys about this group before but i reinterate DO NOT MISS SEEING RMT IF YOU ARE EVER IN HOUSTON. this is the very best cabaret show in america, bar none. sheer genius every show. they have been here for 20 years and have never advertized, it is strickly word of mouth. this is a smart and clever show for smart people who like to laugh. a good time will be had by all.
am hanging out with friends until next weekend when i work the COMEDY SPOT up in the northern suburbs.
haven't heard from my doctor which i take as a good sign but i am going to call her tomorrow. will let you know what the verdict is....
anyway, glad to be here.
on thursday, i went to see opening night at RADIO MUSIC THEATER, for their new show, GRANDPA HASN'T MOVED IN DAYS. i have told you guys about this group before but i reinterate DO NOT MISS SEEING RMT IF YOU ARE EVER IN HOUSTON. this is the very best cabaret show in america, bar none. sheer genius every show. they have been here for 20 years and have never advertized, it is strickly word of mouth. this is a smart and clever show for smart people who like to laugh. a good time will be had by all.
am hanging out with friends until next weekend when i work the COMEDY SPOT up in the northern suburbs.
haven't heard from my doctor which i take as a good sign but i am going to call her tomorrow. will let you know what the verdict is....
anyway, glad to be here.
posted by Ron Shock | 10:31 AM
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Today's inauguration is expected to become the most expensive in US history. One estimate is that the total cost for the festivities of January 20, and in the days running up to it and after, will rise above $150 million. (By contrast, the 2005 swearing-in of George W. Bush, as profligate an executive as ever imagined, cost $42 million.) Of the $150 million budgeted to handle the millions of people who will descend on Washington, and to finance the lavish parties, the assignations in backrooms, the dying lobsters and the champagne uncorked, just $45 million -- an obscene sum alone -- has been offered up by private donors. The rest, which includes an emergency $75 million requested from the federal government by the city of DC for transportation costs and for the ever-effective bugaboo of “security," will be drawn from the pockets of taxpayers. We the people will also fund a mass prayer service as the cherry on top.
Oh happy day! Thus doth Change descend among us in the same old purple raiment and with the smiling largesse that the peons pay for. January 20 is a historic wasted opportunity. Obama might have signaled real change from the outset by canceling the whole rotten affair as the waste and silliness and ostentation that it is. Instead, a simple address, televised or better yet on radio, would have sufficed. Something like the following: “My fellow Americans, this is no time for frivolity. The country is falling down around our ears! The reason is mostly because we have blown our money in bad investments, whether it be in war or on Wall Street or on Main Street. Let’s not flush millions of dollars more down the toilet in self-congratulation and the flatus of long speeches. Nuff said. See you tomorrow when the work begins.” Click.
Excellent point Chris! Though I don't know how that is connected to this particular blog :-)
Hey Ron..glad to hear that Danny's club is doing so well; it seems just like yesterday that he and Blancha had their opening night.
RMT is outrageously funny; whenever I go back to Houston I see a show there.
Is Chops still working there?
chris: while you make a good populist point, in reality (you know that thing that we really have to live in) what you say should have happened is just hogwash, though well written hogwas it may be; pomp and festivities were called for, look at the MILLIONS who were there and they were there celebrating. the king is dead...long live the king.
heather,
everyone is still there at rmt. the staff included. the only one gone is ken polk who left the company and moved to l.a. years ago to try to get into the movies. ken passed from this plane over ten years ago.
(but you probably knew that)
p.s. chris, who writes under several names, is just ranting and hardly ever addresses a given blog. she is rudy the reviewer and peter the pundit and multiple times comes in under the anonymous moniker. i let her on as long as she doesn't get into personal attacks against me...which she does every now and then. she is a wonderful writer with a great command of the language. (as this post of hers will attest.)
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