My friends, The Rodents Of Unusual Size, have their last Tuesday night show tonight at the Avenue Theater. If you have the time and $10 then come down and see them.  They are calling it their Tryptophantastic Comedy Show. You know, coz it’s after Thanksgiving and stuff(ing).

Anyway, there are planning a bunch of games and some skits that are sure to make them laugh.  And if you get there early, you’ll be able to hear me read my "Why Be A Muskrat Hater?" blog posting. That alone is worth at least 25 cents of your admission ticket.

(Plus the $10 gets you a free drink, too. And you can choose beer if you want!)

Show starts at 7:30 tonight.  More details on their MySpace page.

Listening to: Crows - The Gothic Archies

Oddville is celebrating their 1 year anniversary this Wednesday night (ironically National Coming Out Day) and they have asked several performers from throughout the last year to come back and perform again. Yes, that means me. They loved the Carol Channing bit so much that I’ll probably be performing that again. I was going to have a new skit, but it’s not done, so I may try it out next month at Oddville before it’s official debut at Monkey’s Uncle’s 5th Anniversary Show in November. No, I’m not spoiling it. You’ll have to come see. In the meantime…

And now for my monthly shameless plug for upcoming shows.

This Monday, Aug 21 at 7:30 is the next Monkey’s Uncle show and we have going to have two women on stage at the same time. Hot, eh? Stephanie McHugh, an extremely talented stand-up comedian and Shari Myers, an extremely talented improvisational comedian are going to be joining us! We can’t wait!

So the following night, I’ll be helping the Rodents Of Unusual Size in the booth for their show at the Avenue Theater. It’s going to be a back to basics show and the theme is Back To School. This means that the music mix I make will be all about school which is always fun. Before the show I’m going to be reading the post Mateo and I wrote for Green Apple Martinis and I’ll be, like, a teenager from the future and stuff. Hmmm, I could dress up, but I think I’ll just read it.

Listening to: The Lights Go Down - Electric Light Orchestra

Tomorrow night at the Avenue Theater, I will be doing another blog reading in the vein of Matthew Taylor of A.C.E. He has a one man show called Tales Of An Englishman, so I’ll be mocking paying homage to him with Tales Of A Gayman.

I’ll be "opening" for the Rodents Of Unusual Size with my story, The Lilith Condom, which you may have read here as the 200th post — only you get to hear the author tell it. That reminds me, I have to get a black school notebook to complete my Matthew Taylor imitation. …maybe a music stand, too, you know, just to be pompous.

P.S. I’ll be up in the booth doing lights and sound, too.

Listening to: Bus To Beelzebub - Soul Coughing