creativity

one of the things i must start doing more of is hanging out with other people in the business. when i was in houston during the comedy workshop days i experienced my greatest burst of creativity and the reason was that i was around creative people every day i was in town. bill hicks, brett butler, sam kinison, carl falkenbury, jimmy pineapple, john farnetti, tshawn shannon and dozens of others were all there and you cannot be around those kind of people and not be at the top of your game menally because they sure as hell were.

i have two projects going on here in vegas, the hicks chronicles and the shock stories and am fortunate enough to have creative people working with me; todd paul in particular. we are going to put out some ART. the first little film is being edited right now and by the time i get back from texas we should be able to put it up on this site, face book and you tube. the hicks chronicles start filming again when i get back and we have found new locations.

when i started on this blog i thought i had much more to say but apparently...i was wrong.

odds and ends on a sunday morning.

in my routine which i call "the time i got caught in bed with the wife of a jealous hillbilly who carried a loaded 45 with him at all times", a rather cumbersome title, i must admit, i tell how one of my plans was to run out of the hall, jump on the bed and dive through the window because nobody could draw and fire that quick to hit me. i can, at times, feel skepticism in the audience. as proof of my contention, let me point out that in the gunfight here in vegas the other day where a man went into the federal building and opened fire with a shotgun; there was a running gun battle that went from the foyer of the building out into the street and 81 shots were fired by law enforcement people. the gunman was hit two or three times (the press reports only say that he was hit in stomach and head..but an earlier tv report, which could have been wrong, put the "hits" as two) and at least one of those happen inside the building. so, 78 (or so) of 81 shots fired by professionals missed. this is not unusual, it is VERY HARD to hit someone or something with a hand gun especially when under pressure. forget the fucking movies, forget john wayne, forget shooting the gun out the hand, those are fantasies, reality is much different.

the unlv running rebels were the only team in america to play two ranked teams on the road this past week. we barely lost to byu on their court, where they are 69-3 since david rose took over as bb coach and then last night we beat new mexico in the "pit" in alburquerque where they had won 29 straight. go rebels. we should be ranked again this coming week.

in retrospect, i should have voted for and campaigned for, hillary clinton; she would have done a better job than obama maily because she is MUCH tougher. it is almost ironic that i had not gotten involved in politics over all these years and then back the wrong guy. proving that i can be an idiot.

oh well, happy sunday to all.

blame game

all of last year, we kept hearing how this "great recession" would be over sometime this summer but today, in the paper, "experts" (lol) say that it will continue all the way into 2012 and that job growth will be meager at best. and, knowing the american public to be easily panicked and always eager to assign blame, obama and the democrats will pay a big price at the voting booths. oddly enough the american public never blames themselves. they were the ones who bought into the idea that home prices could go up EVERY YEAR by double digits while at the same time INCOMES WERE FLAT. they thought that though nobody was making more money (other than the rich, of course..but the rich aint buying those middle class homes) people would somehow or another be able to afford grossly inflated prices for new (and poorly built, i might add) cookie cutter homes ranging from small poorly built to rather massive poorly built mac mansions. the american public did not pay any attention to the ney Sayer's when we pointed out that deregulation of the financial markets would lead to horrendous consequences for the average american because it allowed insiders to rule the market even more than they did. the american public did not rise up in outrage when g.w. bush invaded iraq, a country WHO DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO US AND HAD NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER TO AL QAIADA..MATTER OF FACT OBL HATED SADAAM HUSSIAN AND THE FEELING WAS MUTUAL. OSAMA THOUGHT HUSSIAN WAS WAY TOO LIBERAL (LOL)., the american public didn't complain when bush kept the costs of the wars OFF THE BOOKS. they didn't complain when bush gave tax cuts to the rich which cost over ONE TRILLION dollars (add that to the cost of the war in Iraq and you can see where our large national debt came from...and it didn't come from the job stimulus money...)
the american public didn't complain nearly loud enough when company after company after company closed their factories here and moved to third world countries and the result of that is that we (the people) got SLIGHTLY LOWER prices and the corporations made MUCH LARGER PROFITS BUT THEY MADE THEM IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO PAY TAX. and now they are going to blame obama and the democrats. in fact, our hens have come home to roost.

historically, manufacturing has been the engine that drove recoveries. but what manufacturing do we have left. the things that must be bought...shoes, socks, underwear, shirts, pants and coats and etc. are ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY MADE ELSEWHERE so we don't even get that little bit. but blame obama.

now we are ratcheting up for more involement in yeman (another muslim country led by an oppressive regime THAT WE BACK) and the "war" in afghanistan gets more costly in money and lives daily. for that we can blame obama.

anyway, fuck them all. is there an honest man with a plan for america in america? i am beginning to doubt it. fuck them all because they all are fucking us. vote socialistic. (that will rattle 'em...lol)

but you know what we are going to do? some, like liz, will stay home and not vote but the majority is going to elect some republicans and the beat will go on and nothing will change. the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer. the social safety net will have a million holes in it and the wars in the middle east will drag on and on and on and on and on....why do they hate us so?

back to bloggin

well, i am back blogging. i have been on facebook almost exclusively for quite a while but that venue is not proper for my rants and raves and extensive posts so here i am. once i figure out (or, more accurately put, once rhonda figures it out) how to post a link to this on that we will do so.

so on to other things:

as most of you know, i was an ardent supporter of senator obama in 08 but i must tell you i am extremely upset with what he has done so far. to wit:

the stimulus: it seemed to me that his first priority was bailing out the banks (who then went and gave out huge bonuses to the idiots who brought all of this down on us (well them and the extreme stupidity of the masses of people who thought that home prices would continue to go up double digits each and every year apparently forever even though wages WERE NOT GOING UP and the bankers who decided that they could loan money to people with bad credit to buy houses that were overvalued and, on top of all of that, think that they (the poor credit buyers) would be able to not only afford the original payment but would, somehow, miraculously come up with even more money to pay the higher payments two years down the line) instead of making THE PEOPLE, you know, the ones who elected his skinny ass to the highest office in the land. the stimulus that he did make for the people was way too little and did not include projects that were grand in scope nor any that would employ vast numbers of people for long periods of time. he repaired bridges but did not build new ones. he paved roads but did not build new ones. there was no really big projects such as the TVA in the roosevlt years; no projects such as desalination plants that could have employed thousands upon thousands and then when finished would have created thousands upon thousands more jobs as once arid lands became fertile.

then his appointments. my fucking god! timmy gaither and rubin in the cabinet??? their footprints are all over the deregulation of the financial markets that led to the derivatives that sank the world economy. foxes guarding the henhouse indeed.

obama told us that lobbyists would no longer have say so over national policies. bullshit.

he told us we would have a national health care system so instead they want to make it a law that citizens HAVE TO BUY INSURANCE FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES. (and the insurance companies, slimeballs that they be, immediately raised their rates by up to 40%).

anyway, cue up the WHO because we have been fooled again.

bill gates for president. no more republicans, no more democrats and, for god's sake, don't even think about the libertarians. what to do? how about someone who is not affliated with any party? maybe bill gates.

in the meantime i am stocking up on food and ammo and writing new jokes. all i can do.