I said he "may" win because 13 years in show business has taught me nothing is final until the contract is signed and your lawyer is paid.
I just want it to be over. I can't stand the coarse nature of the political discourse in this country anymore. Plus stress-wise this has been like game 7 of the NBA Finals for like 2 years.
Nationally everything sucks right now. Clubs going out of business right and left, no one with money to spend on entertainment... and trust me folks, we have not even begun to make out the beginning of the murky depths of the bottom of this crisis.
Things will be bad for a long time before they are finally mediocre and then someday, hopefully tolerable.
I'm flying across the country to be with my girlfriend on election day. That's how much this whole shebang means to me. I want to be with someone I dearly love when the elephant hits the mat, when Reaganomics finally implodes upon itself in a shitstorm of plummeting home values and socialization of banks.
I only wish Milton Friedman and Ronnie himself were alive to see what the free market hath wrought.
I thought it was telling when Alan Greenspan said the other day that he thought the banks would "police themselves."
This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt ol' Alan is an ivory tower math nerd with no understanding of human behavior.
Let me ask you this, Alan - are societys capable of policing themselves or do they, not to be redundant, need a "police" force to keep the peace and make sure everyone stays in some semblance of order?
Why should a financial institution, an organism made up of humans, be any different than regular humans?
People require regulation, laws and enforceable agreed upon rules to live by.
I believe, like Jefferson, in the perfectibility of man. Unfortunately we live in a Hamiltonian world of cut-throat capitalism.
Therefore and forever we require laws. No one, no individual, no institution, no political body, no politburo, no stock exchange, no police force even, is capable of self-regulation.
On a personal note I'm really, really fucking tired of doing stand-up.
I don't do drugs (save the occasional Xanax), I don't drink and I don't try to fuck young, middle aged, or older women.
Why?
"I'm too old for that shit," to paraphrase Danny Glover.
Drugs and drink suck. Or at least I do when I'm on them.
As for random sex well I'm in love with a terrific woman and even if I wasn't anonymous sex is about as appealing to me as a Bon Jovi concert.
I guess you just outgrow some things. Like fucking strangers and listening to Metallica records.
Also there's just a really fine line that I crossed a few years ago that separates doing something really fun and being a pathetic old bag of intoxicated bones making advances towards people born in the 80's.
I think I'm just tired from a mini-tour of the UK then a flight back to Seattle then a two day turnaround and another trip to the midwest to do the Bloomington Funny Bone.
Great club, nice people. But I was tired. Tired of audiences. I can't feel their laughter anymore.
It used to feel like Heroin or a snorted Xanax when they would laugh. Now it feels like nothing.
Like having sex with someone you've fallen out of love with. Like a duty, a job, a fucking grind.
I'm sure this will all get better in a few days and I'll rediscover my zest for my art.
Sometimes I just wish I could be like a band and take off 5 years between albums and tours.
Wah wah wah. I asked for my dream job and I got it. So stop bitching, Kent. You could still be hocking treadmills to overly-tanned bitches in the Valley.
Instead you have random drunks coming up to you, slapping you on the back and telling you, "that was fucking, funny as shit dude."
It could be worse...
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