July!

Hey Chicago! Buy tickets now. Click the Facebook "Recommend" button if you want to help move tickets. More information soon.

Ghosty!

I have some upcoming shows added to my calendar in the left hand margin over there. Don't like the way it's wedged in with a Google Calendar widget? Then buy me an expensive new website, loudmouth. Anyway I am trying to do a bunch of new material, so if you were previously sick of my bullshit now is an excellent time to give me a second chance! I am performing tonight, as well as opening for Doug Benson next week. You have options!

Oh, and do you like the idea of me writing comedy? Good, because I like to do it. If you had said no, things would have descended into hostility pretty quick. So, I recently popped up in Paste Magazine's online edition. You can read one, maybe two articles before it asks you to pay. While I recommend buying this, their special comedy issue, I humbly suggest you start with my column about the proposed reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise, and follow it up with this "Exquisite Tweet" article I contributed to along with lots of other more famously funny folks.

And here's the full illustration, provided by Dyna Moe:

January 6th! Be there!

Comedy Bang Bang!

In case you missed it, I was on Episode 135 of Comedy Bang Bang, and you can listen here!

Also, my first video game review was recently published by The Onion. I reviewed a Lord of the Rings game and did not like it, so I tried to make my frustration as articulate and erudite as possible out of respect for the disrespected source material. Check the review out here!

LA shows: Check it out!

Please repost this poster, link it, etcetera! I'm job hunting out in LA and can use any attention I can get. These are awesome, awesome shows I get to do.



And I'm serious about there being "more throughout the week." There will be surprise shows I'm not allowed to talk about but are 100% in the books.

Artwork via the amazingly talented Mike Holmes.

Pop Pilgrims!

The web series I co-host for the Onion AV Club, Pop Pilgrims is now live! Most of mine have already "dropped" so to speak, but there's a new one every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a few more weeks. My Chicago episodes will be some of the last to air, so there's still some new stuff to come.

If you haven't heard me ramble about it on my social websites, the premise is that I fly around the country to different pop culture landmarks from film, TV, music, and literature and interview an expert on the topic. Like the house from Texas Chainsaw Massacre outside of Austin, or the streets of Treme in New Orleans.

I only host half the episodes, so if you want to see those specifically check out Memphis, New Orleans, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Eugene, and Chicago. Although I do the introductory voice-over for every episode! That was neat.

Here's one of my absolute favorites, when I talked to Cobain friend and biographer Charles Cross outside Kurt's former home. Seattle may have been my favorite city to visit- my trip to Fantagraphics headquarters is the second one I embedded here. Holy shit did I consider dropping comedy to apply to be a comic book publishing intern. For a second.


Seattle: Kurt Cobain Park


Seattle: Fantagraphics Comics 

More dates!

Note the updated poster! Click it for a larger view.