Falling Into The Creek
There is a veritable shanty town developing underneath the bridge next to my workplace. Ordinarily, there are a couple homeless people living down there as trolls would, but unlike trolls, they don’t...
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No Reason
A couple weeks ago my column debuted, my stupid mug was on the cover, and I got hate mail. It was pretty exciting. A friend was asking me about it because he saw my picture with the caption “Why are...
View ArticlePuppet Show
I’ve been watching a lot of Charlie Kaufman movies lately. Kaufman’s the guy who wrote the screenplays for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Being John Malkovich (where John...
View ArticleMad About Yu
I’m a huge baseball fan. I love everything about the game, except for other baseball fans. Stereotypically, some sports fans are among the most unpleasant people, falling somewhere between frat boys...
View ArticleMapped Territory
I just read one of those books that cause me to completely change the way I want to write. This happens about once a year, as I have a bad habit of trying to imitate other writer’s styles in lieu of...
View ArticleInto The Unknown
By the time this column is published, I will be a college graduate. That’s the good news. The bad news is that my BA is in English Literature. People have been asking me what I intend to do with my...
View ArticleNarcissism in Comedy
I haven’t done stand-up in a very long time. Sometimes I miss it, but a lot of the time I really don’t think about it much. My only real motivations to get back into it are to shut up Steve Swim, who...
View ArticleFirst Impressions
A couple years ago I won one of the Bustolini’s Stand-Up competitions. Later I was talking to a woman who was in the audience the night I won, and she told me that I didn’t win because I was the...
View ArticlePreparing for the Zombie-Apocalypse Apocalypse
Everyone has a plan for the zombie apocalypse. Most of these plans are stupid, considering they all start with “go-somewhere-with-a-lot-of-guns-and-loot-said-guns,” which of course would just result in...
View ArticleSwanky’s Joins The Brawl
A week after deferring the decision of whether to grant Robert Rasner and The Winchester Goose their alcohol license, the City Council of Chico has denied a liquor license to a proposed wine bar....
View ArticleThings Wrong With the Chico Comedy Scene
For the last four years, I’ve been pretty involved in the Chico comedy scene. Over that time I’ve watched both an improv and a sketch troupe rise and fall, and I’ve watched a comedy club come and go as...
View ArticleThings Right With the Chico Comedy Scene
Chico, by the time you read this I will be gone. Don’t worry, I’m not killing myself. I’ve moved to Chicago to try my hand at the comedy scene there. Diligent readers may recall my last column, “Things...
View ArticleMajor in English
Let’s say you’re an incoming freshman who just happened to walk into Aca Taco and you saw the Synthesis sitting there—all neat and proper if it’s Monday, disheveled and askew if it’s Thursday—and you...
View ArticleBabes of Comedy
I don’t have to tell you that stand-up comedy is dominated by males. You knew that from years of watching swarms of dudes appear on Comedy Central Presents. You knew that from attending one of the...
View ArticleMy Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
I’ve had an unjustifiable aversion to storytelling. I can’t really explain why I haven’t given it a chance. Storytelling is like brussels sprouts. People keep telling me they’re good and good for me,...
View ArticleThe Mausoleum Of All Hope And Desire
This last Wednesday was William Faulkner’s birthday, and since he couldn’t celebrate it (what with being dead and all), I’ve decided to reflect on what I’ve learned about being a writer and a comedian...
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