Originally Posted: 11/20/2001
My November 20th resolution is to update my website more often. And by that, I mean updating information other than my upcoming dates which require no real creativity on my part.
On today, Tuesday, November 20th I spent the majority of my time arguing with my friends on Instant Messenger over how to phonetically spell out the Pink Panther Theme Song (We agreed on “duna duna...duna duna...duna duna...duna duna...duna duna duna duna duna duna duna dunaaaaa dunanananana”) and trying desperately to find out what the difference is between New York cheesecake and plain old, regular cheesecake. And do you know what? Nobody knows! I even called the Cheesecake Factory and they didn’t know. My baking friends don’t know. I asked Jeeves and he doesn’t know. Nobody knows, but most people think it’s something about the crust.
I am finding out about cheesecakes because one of the administrators in my department at my day job (cue scary music) is leaving and moving to New York. We want to have a cheesecake on her last day. She’s from the UK originally, but had lived in New York before coming to Boston. Now she’s on her way back to New York. I asked her if she’s going to become famous and she says she doesn’t imagine she will. She said lived there before and didn’t become a star. I don’t think she wants to become famous. It’s not one of her priorities.
I think about New York a lot. Moving there, I mean. I go there quite often to visit friends and do standup. But I know that at some point I’ll be moving there. It’s where the comedy is, you know. Well, there and Los Angeles. But I don’t know that I’m moving back to California any time soon. Right now the big question seems to be, “How do you know when it’s the right time?” or rather, how will I know? There’s a lot to do in Boston, and I’m learning tons, and love it here. It’s not like I’m running low on opportunities, because I’m not. But every time I go to New York I can’t help but think, “Is this where I’m supposed to be?”
I’m still really early on in my standup career. I like to tell people that I’ve been doing it long enough to be jaded, but not long enough to be burned out. There are a lot of things I’m figuring out. Do I want to be a writer/standup? A standup/actor? A straight standup? (I guess that’s a poor choice of words) And really I know that I don’t need to have the answers just yet. I just need to be honest about asking myself the questions. And I need to continue having fun. I’ll figure things out as I go along. For now, I feel satisfied telling myself that I’m not ready to move to New York until I’ve got a half-hour of material under my belt, more than 2 contacts, and I can tell people what makes New York cheesecake so damn special.
My November 20th resolution is to update my website more often. And by that, I mean updating information other than my upcoming dates which require no real creativity on my part.
On today, Tuesday, November 20th I spent the majority of my time arguing with my friends on Instant Messenger over how to phonetically spell out the Pink Panther Theme Song (We agreed on “duna duna...duna duna...duna duna...duna duna...duna duna duna duna duna duna duna dunaaaaa dunanananana”) and trying desperately to find out what the difference is between New York cheesecake and plain old, regular cheesecake. And do you know what? Nobody knows! I even called the Cheesecake Factory and they didn’t know. My baking friends don’t know. I asked Jeeves and he doesn’t know. Nobody knows, but most people think it’s something about the crust.
I am finding out about cheesecakes because one of the administrators in my department at my day job (cue scary music) is leaving and moving to New York. We want to have a cheesecake on her last day. She’s from the UK originally, but had lived in New York before coming to Boston. Now she’s on her way back to New York. I asked her if she’s going to become famous and she says she doesn’t imagine she will. She said lived there before and didn’t become a star. I don’t think she wants to become famous. It’s not one of her priorities.
I think about New York a lot. Moving there, I mean. I go there quite often to visit friends and do standup. But I know that at some point I’ll be moving there. It’s where the comedy is, you know. Well, there and Los Angeles. But I don’t know that I’m moving back to California any time soon. Right now the big question seems to be, “How do you know when it’s the right time?” or rather, how will I know? There’s a lot to do in Boston, and I’m learning tons, and love it here. It’s not like I’m running low on opportunities, because I’m not. But every time I go to New York I can’t help but think, “Is this where I’m supposed to be?”
I’m still really early on in my standup career. I like to tell people that I’ve been doing it long enough to be jaded, but not long enough to be burned out. There are a lot of things I’m figuring out. Do I want to be a writer/standup? A standup/actor? A straight standup? (I guess that’s a poor choice of words) And really I know that I don’t need to have the answers just yet. I just need to be honest about asking myself the questions. And I need to continue having fun. I’ll figure things out as I go along. For now, I feel satisfied telling myself that I’m not ready to move to New York until I’ve got a half-hour of material under my belt, more than 2 contacts, and I can tell people what makes New York cheesecake so damn special.
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