August 31st, 2006
What next?!
You’re probably wondering how my Mister Diplomat show went last Friday. Well, I can tell you that I was extremely nervous about it, right up until the part when I got to run up on stage. But once I was up there, the bright lights of show biz made me relax. [Actually, the bright lights made me realize that I wouldn’t have to actually look at all the people in the audience!] I then told stories, from audience suggestion, as they popped into my little head. Everyone laughed, and the improv troupe did an amazing job of using the material. Doing Mister Diplomat was a really fun experience, and I thank our friend Mr. J. Morningstar for recommending me as a special guest on the show!
This week was the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I’d now like to dedicate the following electronic moment of silence for the people who lost their friends, family members, pets, homes and life plans to that fateful storm. (MOMENT OF SILENCE.)
Important alert: You people should be on the lookout for a Chapel Hill News story that will be coming out this Sunday, September 3, written by local reporter Valarie Schwartz. It’s about me and Clinton (!!!) and our lives in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle area one year after Katrina.
If you didn’t already know, tomorrow (September 1) is National Impeachment Awareness Day. I will be standing at the Crown Gasoline Station at the intersection of two major North Carolina state highways tomorrow during rush hour, waving and holding homemade signs along with three of my fellow impeachment activists. I bought outdoor paints at the craft store and spent this evening painting slogans. One side of my fancy sign says “Visualize Impeachment” and the other side says “Our country deserves better!”
Why outdoor paint, you ask? Because !$%#*@ Ernesto is bringing it down from the sky over the next couple of days, that’s why! Oh well, our group’s organizer says he’s bringing four special umbrellas with impeachment slogans on them, in case we get rained out. If you haven’t heard much about the national impeachment movement, you should check out this article by the Smirking Chimp. Here’s an excerpt:
There is a growing grassroots campaign demanding the impeachment of George W. Bush. Across the nation, towns and cities have been passing pro-impeachment resolutions. Websites promoting impeachment keep springing up. In several states, bills have been introduced in state legislatures that, if passed, would become formal bills of impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives, requiring initiation of impeachment hearings under congressional rules dating back to the early 19th century.
So, on my desk at work I have this paper calendar on a stand from The Joy of Cooking. You know those little standup calendars that are sold at Barnes & Noble? Yeah, I have one of those. Well, it has a page for each day of the calendar year. So each day I rip off a page, and it gives me yet another obscure cooking tip from the “pros”. Usually, it’s something like How to Make the Perfect Dumpling or Rehydrating Dried Chili Peppers. Well, this morning I flipped the page, and it said Pulverized Nuts. Yes it did. So you just KNOW what kind of day I had today!
Meanwhile, our nation is growing fatter and Chinese people are teaching their dogs to drive. What next?!