rubinville

The catch-22 of of being a stand up comedian while also doing a journal is how the approval I get from each is so different. In stand up, I get immediate gratification, right there on the spot. When things are going well, there is an amazing, sudden and constant rush, better than anything else I've ever experienced. In a journal, or whatever this is, I just put something out there, feel okay about it, and then maybe get a couple comments on it. Yet, because I'm so trained to want that approval, the comments become irrationally important to me. So I've gotta get over the need for approval. That means no more free Starbucks Gift Cards for you guys. Sorry, it's just better for my mental health this way.

I mention this because 262 unique users came to The Daily Dave yesterday, and only three commented. But, as the tag line up above says, "I write it, you read it." So I'm going to just focus on that for now on.

New York Magazine has listed their "Top 10 Funniest People You've Never Heard Of". I've been doing stand up for 7 years and I've only heard of three of them, and actually met only two of them. I really think they might've made up the other people.

My top ten you've never heard of include, in no order: Bob Jeurgens, Meghan Hanley, Mike Singer, Brian Baumley, EDP, Don Weir and Erik Braunstien. We're creating an underground network of super-funny people that will operate below the mainstream radar until our collective sense of humor is ready to rise above the muck . Is there really any other way to do it?

John Roberts is being confirmed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as I write this. C-Span's rating just doubled to 12 people.

A bunch of flight attendants are upset over the way they are portrayed in the movie "Flightplan." In a related story, various alien groups are upset about the way they've always been portrayed in movies, with "Cocoon" being the only exception.

Anyone else noticed how Sportscenter has basically morphed into an unwatchable mess of talking-heads who scream about points they don't even believe? It's like sitting at the Thanksgiving table with my family.

Ah, I liked that one.

Tom Delay got busted for doing something shady that nobody really cares about. I'd write more about it but that would lessen the value of the previous sentence.

My computer smells a little like popcorn if I leave it on for too long.

I'm gonna go butter the keyboard, see ya later...