A pretty great week.

Okay, so bad news first: I'm a touch behind on my book (as usual), audiences at my past few comedy shows have been incredibly lackluster, and I'm worried that nobody will show up this Friday night at the Herring when we've got stand-up comedians driving all the way in from Boston (!!) and I can only pay them with a percentage of the door.

That being said, I'm sort of psyched to have had so many comedy gigs this month. And, like, paying gigs, which has heretofore been a rarity. We performed at a wedding held in the Berkshire Museum, which a) awesome place for a wedding, and b) our two 15-minute sets went great, riffing off not only suggestions from the guests, but some of the art in the room around us.

Spending more quality time with some of my excellent friends is always a good thing. minyan came over early in the week with a giant basket of food, and we got to hang out and chat for many hours, which is always fun. Went over to visit a new frennamine and after dinner we hung out until way too late, which was delightful. schreibergasse is in visiting, and he dragged me up some hills and then made apple crumble and we played games and this is all excellent.

My column this week is a guide to the North Adams mayoral election, which has a lot of anagrams. And they felt the need to run a clarification, so I'm hoping that means maybe they got an angry letter or something. I hope so -- it's been too long, I'm beginning to think people aren't reading me!

Recently, I found out that a (freely downloadable) hip-hop album on which I have a song got a glowing review on Wired. There's a link in the review to download the album, if you're interested. And yes, technically the review glosses over my solo song, but it's cool anyway.

And the_star_fish continues to make me happy, make me laugh, and make me delicious food.