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oh, hey... i went to the doctor during lunch today and apparently i have "acute bronchitis" (well, thank you, you're too kind)......................

okay... first off, I forgot to rabbit rabbit this morning.

this is just insane. horribly horribly insane.

go to nola.com nola weblog

and the bourbon st weblog.

the cowboy mouth site is still offline

fats domino is missing since katrina had her way with the south.

UPDATE: Fats is still fat, alive and kicking. good news. now, let's get the rest of them out of there with the same results.

okay. so am stuck on the 6:26pm train. they've "lost power"

fantastico.

bright side of sitting here in the un-air-conditioned train where the conductor has a captive audience and whose microphone hasn't lost power (seriously, this guy will not shut up)... well, the bright side is I really don't care. nothing's as bad as it is down south (although, I WILL continue to vent on here about things if I want)

::: plunked in on my treO:::

see, this is why i love cowboy mouth. this is fred (the lead singer/drummer's site.)

just go.

and here's his archives.

***** and whilst you're clicking around, go throw at least $5 into the hurricane kitty at redcross.org*****

(when i win the mega millions lottery tonight i promise to be VERRRRY generous to the hurricane relief.)

david horsey.

okay - the mayor or new orleans, Ray Nagin, has my respect.... mucho respect. he's cursing. he's pissed. and he's right.

(you have to site through an advert before watching the video... and it's a little long- but i highly highly recommend listening to the ENTIRE interview)

here's an article...

here's a write-up as well...

aaron neville is fantastic (as is harry connick, jr.) and man alive, kanye west, i am pretty sure that you didn't read any of that off the cue cards (as mike myers looked like he was going to shit a brick)... good for you!!! (except you should've breathed and slowed down just a little...) talking about how blacks are portrayed as looters and whites are just trying to get food to feed their families... see here for example

"george bush doesn't care about black people!!!!"

kanye... dude. you have some big balls, my friend... but to clarify, there are a lot of white/etc folks down there... get it straight:

GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE..... BECAUSE THEY CAN'T HELP HIM

while part of me wants to shake him and be like "yo! let's just try to raise some money here!" --- a bigger part of me is screaming "KUDOS!!"

yeah. i've been crying from the songs and footage. you gotta problem with that?!??!?!

yeah, i didn't think so.

UPDATE: here's the msn blog about the show.

by the way, anyone else think michael brown may have been hit on the head with the fuckwit stick once too many times????

okay - there's been a lot of depressing links and images and videos out there the past few days... not to mention the fact that my site has taken a brief & rare "political" turn... i am not one to yap about politics or religion on here... but every now and again, i touch on the subjects...

anyway, behold my silliness link dump:

okay - this is great (it could've been placed in the "silliness link dump" but no.)

behold, the HURRICANE REPORT.

[blatantly snagged from mike]

• here are the editorial cartoons about the aftermath of Katrina...

and then shumpy sent me this image from a shop in new orleans...

i have to head over to the rehab center...

man, i just watched the aaron broussard (president of jefferson parrish, La.) clip from meet the press this morning...

listen to it. all the way to the end. please. (if you can, forward it to about 4:02 in the clip)

[if you have issues saving it and playing it, go to this site to find it.]

i really need to find more silly happy links. hard to do right now.

instead... if you want to slap the link/image below onto your site, snag this code.

okay so, taking a moment from the katrina bit... what's going on? yesterday i basically cleaned the house and then went to aunt judy's for cheeseburgers, etc. earlier i took an hour of the day and headed to the driving range (the first time in forever. felt good.)

gorgeous day.

then headed over to the rehab to see mom...

once i got home last night i went through my old sketchbook that i'd turned into my exercise journal... i bought a new one and wound up pasting magazine exercises, etc into it... yes, folks, 187 here. whatever.

so i bought a journal on top of the exercise one... so i'm starting to write down the schtick (food. water. how i'm feeling. etc.) it's day one.

yes i thought of starting the fat off again. right now with all that's going on, while i would love to start the F.O. up again for fall, it was a bit of a pain in the ass gathering info each week... i just don't have the time for it... although, if folks want to post their start weights, goals, etc. and we can have an informal weekly weigh in on my site, that's fine by me... (i am weighing in on tuesday and that's when people can comment in relation to the Great Blogger Fat Off II)

that said... salmon for lunch, kids.

hey, Babs, not for nothing, but your pearl necklace must be cutting off your oxygen supply... that's the only explanation that i could even come up with for your jackasinine remarks.

once again, donate... you know, since things are "working very well for them"

and be sure to visit glenn and flood aid in relation to hurricane katrina.

mornin'... so last night at 11pm the booker at the improv asked me if I wanted to do a guest spot tonight and sunday (to get ready for this monday) I had to say no, not that I am not prepared, just that A) it was short notice for tonight (wish I could, jim gaffigan is in the lineup) and B) sunday, not for nothing, but- that still is a rough day for people to laugh on, especially in nyc.

so I told him i'd be okay without spots before the showcase... he said, that wouldn't be fair to me and that he'll put me in the showcase/audition on september 27th... and between now and then I will do some guest spots...

so that was kickass of him... plus not knowing what day mom was coming home next week (if that) - it may have become a fiasco... and I need to be mentally prepared (hahahah mentally... yeh. *ahem*)

so, I think gigglemom is warming up to the hbo thing... may have just been nicotineless irritation that caused her to say "but, you're not HBO funny" last week.

right? :)

so.... anyone who WAS planning on coming to the show on the 12th it's now Tuesday the 27th at 9pm (yes, there were 2 nights reserved for the showcases)

::: plunked in on my treO:::

on a bright note, the cowboy mouth website is back up and running *whew*

and fred's got some things to say about the 'cane, etc.

so i am happy that the band, while i've heard a couple of homes were lost, and a set of parents were plucked out on thursday, they are fine... and word on the street is there's a New Orleans Displaced Musician's Fund - i will find a link or info about that soon.

okay. for a moment, no katrina stuff... this is serious... if i could put this on my wishlist i would.

who wants to send me one of these???

I WANT ONE!!!!

well I am on the 5:33pm train, trying to get down to see mom in the rehab before visiting hours are over...

what's been going on? well, let's see... besides wanting a pony (been there, done that by the way... but how frigging cool would that pony be sitting IN my mini???)...

the other day i'd emailed wplj about cowboy mouth/hurricane etc. yesterday morning one of the dj's called me, not about CM, but about me doing a logo for him.... cool. am still trying to finagle some CM airtime though.

went out and spent $20 to get my hair shamppooed and blown dry during lunch... complete with scalp massage. well worth it.

gigglemom gets re-evaluated tomorrow to see when she can come home... for her own good I am hoping they keep her another week, so she will have another smoke-free week under her belt as well as more physical/breathing therapy

I am going to try to get a cleaning service in on saturday to take care of the house. so far everyone is booked though.

so I work for a company that sells women's clothing - geared toward plus size actually... and I sit near the customer service folks.... today there were a bunch of orders that strangers (one canadian) placed - one for $1000 worth of underwear that they asked to be shipped to the astrodome. how sweet is that?? our company is also sending clothes and $ and matching donations etc... but our customers are really fantastic.

other than that... basically just am doing the rehab tonight, cleaning, designing a logo, working on the improv site... oh, sleep? yeah, i'll get around to that... last night I watched the blake/agassi match. man, wasn't it great? I was rooting for the kid, but I also have a weak spot for andre (especially since he's representin' us elderly 35 year olds - could they make being 35 sound a little MORE like we have one foot in the grave?)

and on that note... I am sitting on the 5:33pm next to the card playing crew. dammit. they are the loudest shufflers known to man. seriously. anyone else on the njcoastline ever have to sit in the same car as them? let me know.

::: plunked in on my treO:::

for those of you who know me (or've been reading my site for a while) you know that i am NOT a big fan of cleaning...

anyway --- right now i am working on getting my room and mom's room to rights... but downstairs.... for a measely $60/hour (and they said it'd only take like an hour/hour & a half) i have 2 women kicking ass and taking names on the grime in the kitchen/bathroom/living room...

i had written out a list of things to do... and as i was walking upstairs, i saw them taking the cushions OFF of the couch!! holy crap! i didn't even THINK of that!!! that's awesome (have i EVER EVER EVER led you folks on to think that i was Suzie Homemaker? no. of course not)

anyway - i took Beri to the Dog Wash so she'd be outta our hair...

and now i am left with the "organization"/Extreme Home Makeover of the upstairs. let's just say, over the past 12 years, the dogs (dalamatian til he passed --- and then the untrained terrier) kinda bitch slapped the hallway and i have to - when i finish packing up boxes etc etc -- down the road, hire a handiman to do a little sheetrocking - that's not today of course, but down the road... i must say i am ready to head to the manasquan muster spot to grab a couple of guys

on that note... i have to kick some ass on the upstairs here... no photos. no way. maybe later.

how's YOUR saturday going?

never forget.

g'morning... am on the RRE... it's the day before The Great (Informal) Blogger Fat Off 2's first weigh-in.

I think I did pretty well (considering that my stomach commandeered my body this weekend - yes. saturday it forced my mouth to order "3 hot dogs and an order of fries" at one point) the rest of the week's been good. a lot of offline journaling and a lot of salmon.

so today would've been my audition at the club... I am pretty happy that I have to wait til the 27th though... another comic who i've performed with is also in that show... so I have to step up to the plate... going to get some guest spots over the next couple of week's for warm-up.... I keep forgetting I haven't been up since august 13... and that wasn't my best show.

rhb called me thursday night while I was visiting mom at the rehab - he left a message... I will call him back tomorrow... silly thing, whenever I see a car that's the make/model/colour of his, my heart leaps to my throat. yes. it's ridiculous.

so I made a dent in the cleaning situation upstairs over the weekend. am SO NOT done... but it's getting there to the point that I am not having nightmares about it.

let's just say the house needs new carpeting.... hmmmmm... I don't need the Mini Giggle Fund anymore (technically I do, but i'm handling the payments)... maybe I should slap together a "Wall-to-Wall Giggle Fund"... all I need is $1000... who's got a buck? (i kinda spent a chunk of my carpet cash on the red cross and salvation army... friday was the salvation army one because I called the fundraiser hoping to talk with jack nicholson or jeremy piven *grrrrowl* piven... alas, I got some chick name anita or something. no hot piven action hugging it out... no jack talking about good ol' 'squan... yes. helped out the flood folks... hoping once I win the mega millions tomorrow I can throw some more cash down there and buy a house with new carpet.... oh and pay off the mini - maybe get a fleet of them... yessssss.... mrs. jeremy piven.... philanthropist.... or mrs. rhb, but I think I have more of a chance with piven :)

slept on the recliner downstairs last night because I have a ton of stuff from my room that's "being organized" on my bed. and when I say "organized" I mean "thrown on the unmade mattress without rhyme or reason only so it's off the floor for a bit".

anyway. back to the mega milllions.... if I win, 5 lucky readers of gigglechick will be given a mini guide horse... contest details to follow once the proper numbers are called out on tuesday.

with winnings, I will get the girls lifted, second curly toe straightened, teeth brite smiled, laser hair removal (yes. everywhere), tummy, well, I suppose I will hire a personal trainer for now... I mean, after all, I am marrying an emmy-nominated actor - whom i've had a crush on since he was in Singles.

okay... actually... right now - I am going to sit back and try to fall asleep on the RRE... seeing as it's one of the last days that i'll be commuting and all...

::: plunked in on my treO:::

okay. that's it. it's the kick in the seat of my pants that i needed. i have to write a novel -- for a while i've wanted to write/illustrate children's books, but i think i might be too surly at the moment to do so.

why the sudden growl about writing the book? yes, i've expressed my desire to write one previously, but i just caught wind of this. wil mara.

a little background - at the risk of sounding like i am loopy (you already know that i am loopy, so it really isn't that big of a risk for me):

quick and dirty info... teenage years, my mom and i talked on the cb radio (kids, it's sort of like the internet now.) there were certain groups, etc. yadda yadda... one guy on there we befriended. when i was 16 i think he was 19 or 20. okay. that was wil.

he had some issues going on at home so my mom let him stay in my old bedroom (sans me)

yes. i had a crush on him.
yes. i left my diary out for him to read.
yes. i wrote about my frigging crush.
no. nothing ever happened (while he lived with us)

anyway... there was a lot more that i could go into... i fell hard for him. he was very talented - a smartypants/wiseass/genius/musician/writer/etc.

flashforward:

today i saw something about a book based on the jersey shore called Wave

who frigging wrote it?

wil.

not for nothing... i suppose i will have to purchase it. i seriously doubt that i will trek to one of his book signings. but, come on. that's it.

now i have to write...

granted, he was talented, so it's not really a bitterness sort of inspiration... not like THIS time (even though i rested on my laurels after seeing it.)

screw it. i have the hbo audition in 2 weeks... but i have enough pent up, bottled up rage and stories in me to write down...

i need a publisher.

any takers?!?!?!!? email me.

okay - so i was lined up to do 2 spots this weekend. 7pm on saturday night the 17th and then 8pm on sunday night the 18th... to warm up for the 27th...

if anyone wants to check me out on the weekend, feel free to come on down to the NY Improv!!!!!

there's a chance gigglemom will be getting out one of those days, but she said that she doesn't need a babysitter at night - besides, i will only be gone like 4 hours tops... and i am driving in - no train for me on the weekend, thanks.

okay - week one is down... i HAD been 187... this morning i am 182...

i've been journaling - yeah, over the weekend ate like a fiend (seriously. 3 windmill hotdogs in one sitting.) but other than the weekend, i was pretty faithful to my 1200-1300 calorie/day "diet".... oh and the water.... the water... was everywhere.

how'd YOU do? hmmmmm?

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher

okay. lunchtime.

yo.

am on the 3:46pm train home. just got the call from gigglemom that her insurance is booting her out of the rehab center. so I am on my way to pick her up now. at least I got 85% of my work done today- tomorrow will finish... going into work tomorrow. I guess this works out well.

gotta run home first, pick up her portable oxygen tank, pick up her Rx from the pharm, then go haul her outta rehab (i still like making her sound like she's hooked on meth by saying "rehab")

then I have to hit the foodstore, get some stuff into the house so she's not starving when I leave her home alone...

and I have to watch big brother tonight.

I just ate my lunch at 3pm (a fat off unfriendly penne chicken black olive green peppers alfredo. and now I feel ill.

going to pass out on train since I fear tonight may be a late one.

::: plunked in on my treO:::

okay - so i need to get headshots taken... i am looking into getting this guy to do them - i really like the way he shoots, etc. plus there's the hair/makeup etc that needs to be done...

i really don't think HBO will go for my glamour shots from 1993.

yes. the last photo in the last row was snapped right before my "girls" popped out and the entire mall saw it happen on the teevees that were lined up throughout the place. *sigh* damned bustier.

UPDATE: my buddy gleny is gonna take my headshots for me...
he rocks. go visit him

three blind plagued mice
three blind plagued mice
see how they run
They all ran after the farmer's researcher's wife,
Who cut off their tails,
With a carving knife. couldn't find them for the past two weeks running around Newark, NJ after being released from three separate cages.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind disease-riddled mice?

am just picturing the rats in newark hanging out, while a pristine bubonic plague infested mouse happens upon them...

the rats scoff "bubonic plague!? that's nothin'... your's is man-made, kid, we earned ours!"

hey hey.... sipping my bucket o' joe on the RRE

have to whittle my set down to 6 min for this weekend (the spots are warm-ups for the hbo thing on the 27th... and that night is 6min.. which means 5min and then add in timing and laughs) easy enough... will cut 2 bits out and all will be fine...

so, if y'all want to see the prep shows this weekend, they're sat@7pm and sun@8pm at the ny improv.

gigglemom is doing okay, perhaps she'll start posting comments on here again....

what else? dane cook performed at the theatre @ msg last night. I didn't know... til I was walking to the train and saw the marquee with his name all huge... he rocks by the way...

how frigging cool would it be to have my name on the msg sign? of course, back in grammar school I was mega shy and sometimes still can't believe I am yapping with a microphone in front of 180 drunk folks...

alright, am gonna pass out on the train now... well, am gonna try... there's this raspy-voiced woman who's been snarling on the cell phone for the past 15 minutes... it's like come on, lady, shut up. why do you need to complain at 8am to your friend about your step-daughter being a "6 year old bitch" who didn't eat her pizza so you aren't giving her lunch money all next week... first off, six year olds need lunch money now? secondly... she's a frigging 6 year old.

yeah, kids annoy the hell out of me, and I am a proponent of a crack to the bottom on 'em - but they need to be stuck up for a little bit. I think I could've been on her side at one point, but her frigging voice was bothering the hell out of me.

in other news. big brother is on tonight. yes. i'm a big brother addict. go janey!!!

speaking of reality shows... survivor last night!!! stephanie from last season is back! yay! she was awesome (and from the shore)

any thoughts on the BB6 or Survivor, folks?

::: plunked in on my treO:::

well, after losing your house, looting, raping, shooting folks, starting arson fires, fleeing your home state and then getting a fema card worth $2000, wouldn't you do the same thing?**

(**okay, i was only listing all those things up there for effect. gigglechick.com is in no way saying that all hurricane victims/evacuees were a part of those actions.)

oh my god i just woke up. i have to leave for the city in like an hour. i have a cold dammit. yesterday i was feeling like my throat wasn't working with me, and now i'm just dizzy and tired. frig. frig. maybe once i shower and get ready i will feel better... hoping that it's just oversleep punkiness that i am sporting right now. gonna tell myself it is.

anyway, improv. 7pm show tonight. trying hard to whittle my 7 minutes into 6... i like all my bits dammit.

going to need mega water with lemon for my throat onstage. frig.

hey good morning. i am still feeling punky. yes i feel like i've been sick a lot - but i am chalking it up to a horrid summer cold that keeps rearing it's ugly head.

anyway- just helped gigglemom into the shower - waiting for her to yell for me to help her out.

last night's show was so-so... they sprung it on everyone that they could only do 5 minutes. what!??!? that sucks! i was having problems condensing it from 7 to 6... now i had to lop off another minute... frig...

anyway - i had to go on first - the guest spot, actually. so i was in the green room and right before i went on stage, the girl said "oh, you're the guest spot - so you have 7 minutes."

frig! are you kidding me? so not only did i just cut a minute off my set, which is easy enough to add back in - but, now i had to go back and add the minute that i had hacked out of it to begin with.... *sigh*

anyway - it was an okay set. i've had better, less sweaty sets. i was almost albert-brooks-in-broadcast-news-sweaty.

the fact that i was up first didn't bother me - i mean, it's not "ideal" to have people still walking in and having the drinks and nachos being delivered when you're yapping... but whatever... it's kinda a distraction... but no biggie... it was just the idea that i had to throw the extra minute back in and figure out the flow of my set again...

tonight should be better since it's a pro show and not a new talent that i was opening up for.

cancelled my headshot "session" with gleny today - really am feeling punky and the visiting nurse is coming here for the first time today so i kinda have to be around here for a bit...

speaking of nurse. gigglemom is out of the shower. gotta go drag her downstairs.

hey so my set was okay last night. got some good laughs. also heard crickets... but I am not as rattled by that, see, every comic that went up last night did okay but the crowd was, like, mute... they were all smiling but apparently didn't realize that they should laugh out loud... *sigh*

other than that, I felt good with my set.

saw lisa weiss' set... she had some good stuff, also this guy peter (who surprised me when he said "you're gigglechick? you're famous!" - or something to that effect... god bless my open mic section...) his set was good, he went up before me. a fella by the name of sean murphy (italian?) kicked some ass up there.

it was a small crowd.

oh, last week i'd ordered some video conversion thing and a microphone for my pc from dell (i have a few hundred left on my dell credit card) and I ordered it with overnight delivery - this was last tuesday - and after the payment went through, the confirmation said it'd arrive september 30th.

um. no. so I ranted at them and cancelled the order.

anyway.... I was winging it with the product. if I WERE going to transfer my sets from vhs to the pc, what type of pc crap paraphenalia would I need?? let me know!!! thanks...

I am on the 7:20am train... and the car I am in smells like mold. am too tired to move.

::: plunked in on my treO:::

arrrrrr, quit swabbin' yer poopdecks arrr ye'll go blind, mateys!

There's a new pirate movie coming out... it's been rated ARRRRRRRR

(arrrr, get it? don't make me throw ye to the sharks... that joke was a shout out to the missing in action PeeWee)

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!

well, T-minus just over a week til the HBO showcase thingamabob...

here's the evite...

(yes, you have to log in to see it.... but it'd be great if you did so!)

remember. it's september 27th at 9pm...

feel free to come down and check it out...

also, go to the improv site and buy tickets for the sept. 27th show at 9pm...

well, it's the full moon week, isn't it? fantastic.

man, I cannot hear today. turns out the girl who sits across from me at work has the flu. my ears