Noise in the Shape of Writing

But first, a "Dap Update":

YESTERDAY: reverted to standard hand shake at Big News, gave one air kiss that felt relatively botch-free

TODAY: one dap with co-worker but I left him hanging on the "punch" (oops)

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Dan Piraro draws Bizarro. www.bizarro.com
You have seen it in the Sunday morning funny papers.
You have perhaps laughed at it on occasion. Mostly these days I just raise my eyebrow at it, though there was a time when I really split a gut over it.

Ah youth.

I caught his show last night (he was on right after Big News). The crowd was huge cause it was his first tour -- ever? Not sure. Anyway, there were celebs there and it was sold out, so of course I stayed in my seat after my show and snagged what would have been someone else's payed-for seat. He he!

Dan is a showman. Dan likes to beam his cartoons up on the wall for the better part of his show. I guess I should have expected that. To be fair, though, he mostly showed ones that were not used in the papers. Sacreligious ones; pornographic ones.

And of course he was shilling for his newly released book (on sale in the lobby where he was giving autographs). He also shilled for vegetarians. He did a whole 20 minutes on how bad killing animals and eating them is. It was moving... for the first 10 minutes. And funny for the first 5. That leaves 10 minutes of squirm in your seat.

I forgive him, though, cause he was for the most part very irreverent and amusing. Think Howie Mandel with an anti-carnivore, anti-Bush, anti-War message.

Okay, don't think Howie. But it WAS like that unfortunately.

Go see the Bizarro Balogna Show if you like watching 47 year old men who look younger than you do be slightly more successful than you are.

And that's arguable.