back in vegas and glad to be here

back from a very long, very tiring trip to the northeast. providence and atlantic city (where, as a comic once said, it is halloween every day). providence is a pretty little town with lots of history and the club was in a slot casino out of town. thousands upon thousands of people were there putting their hard earned money into slots whose payouts are much, much lower than l.v. or a.c. slots are testament to americans inability to understand math. they are not good here but in indian or state casinos they are just short of highway robbery. blah. will not be going back to providence and may not be going back to atlantic city; it is too long a flight and too much hassle for me now. i don't want to work any more than 20 gigs next year and 11 of those will be in texas so there will have to be clubs cut from my schedule. san francisco, sacramento, indy, louisville, hilton head, lexington, sarasota will also make the cut leaving only a couple of other weeks to be filled. i have picked up some new clubs in oklahoma, kansas and arkansas and i will do a couple of them next year so that may be all. i will, of course, be working here in vegas multiple weeks so you can always see me here.

i will say that the new jersey turnpike between philly and nyc is one of the best roads in the world. what a piece of work that is! at times there are 16 lanes and the rest of the time 14. beats anything i have seen in this country.

both of the acts with me in a.c. were just great, eric o'shay and joe mulligan. it was a fabulous show!

gotta go, glad to be back, stay tuned for poker and politics and pontificating.