Fenway Park is celebrating its one-hundred year anniversary this season! Both as a Red Sox fan and a fan of baseball, I’m obviously very proud of Fenway. I’m also kind of a nudge when it comes to factual inaccuracies. I don’t live in a glass house, so I’m free to throw rocks at others when… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Fenway Park!
Month: May 2012
The Sunshine Open Mic Podcast
I’m on two podcasts in two weeks? That’s a new record, with the old record being one (unless you count the short-lived, Cookies and Cakes, which I don’t). The other day I recorded The Sunshine Open Mic Podcast with fellow blogger and stand-up comedian, Tommy Sunshine [Twitter]. We had a good talk about what makes my stand-up… Continue reading The Sunshine Open Mic Podcast
Dr. Radio Show and Me
I love listening to a good podcast and as of yesterday I was on one too: The interview part is mostly about stand-up (my style, influences, and rookie-ness), then we talk about whatever and play a game with no name, it was a lot of fun. Check it out by going to the Dr. Radio… Continue reading Dr. Radio Show and Me
Tough Luck
Check out this bike scene: I walked by this little disaster the other day. What I can gather is that a car hopped a curb, smashed into a “No Stopping” sign, and managed to crush a bike with said “No Stopping” sign. What a terrible coincidence that a thin little pole could fall in exactly the right… Continue reading Tough Luck
Rhymes with Orange
Aside from being an idea for a possible indie band or the name of an improv troupe, the idea of something that “rhymes with orange,” is that it doesn’t exist. Well come on people, poetic license! Artistic license (the broader family that poetic license belongs to) just begs for reality to be distorted. It’s unfathomable… Continue reading Rhymes with Orange
May the Fourth
Today is, what I would guess, the nerdiest holiday of the year, “May the Fourth.” As in, May the Fourth be with you, a Star Wars related pun. I have a love/hate relationship with puns. They can be cheap humor, but if executed right they’re amazing. Luke-aly, I’m pro-May the Fourth, it’s a clever one.… Continue reading May the Fourth
Genericized!
I think we’ve all heard of this concept, a brand name that becomes the common term for something—like Band-Aid™, Hula hoop™, Tupperware™, Aspirin, etc. All of those are former or current brand names of things. They’re called genericized trademarks and I think the idea of them is common knowledge. I find that a lot of people… Continue reading Genericized!