Whine Flu mars return to Bill’s Records

“Don’t worry about this cough. Jews don’t get the Swine Flu. We get the Whine Flu!

“Oh, my, Gawd, is this guy back again? He’s hooorrrible!” I mock-kvetched to the sparse Bill’s Records audience during my Memorial Day weekend set.

To compound the misery, Bill’s booker Becky Hyden has posted a pair of YouTube videos, where you can see me failing miserably in front of nobody. Continue reading

Posted in: Gigs at 11:44 pm Fri, May 29, 2009.

This is the Artist Underground Stage

Roving photographer Danny Bollinger missed my show; grabbed an image of the banner out front of the Artist Underground Stage at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival.

Post-mortem and horrifying video to follow!

Posted in: Gigs at 1:24 pm Sun, Apr 5, 2009.

Catch me at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival!

It’s festival time again, kids, and that means I’ll be onstage outdoors at an inappropriate time for adult humor, slinging Her Shit Don’t Stink and My Fat Ass Itches out amongst the face painters and fried Snickers concessions.

The folks at the 15th annual Deep Ellum Arts Festival will almost certainly regret inviting me to perform from 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Saturday, April 4 on the Artist’s Underground stage. Admission is free. Continue reading

Posted in: Gigs at 1:44 pm Wed, Apr 1, 2009.

Benefit raises funds, bad memories

I feel a sense of history when I play the big stage at the Sons of Hermann Hall, mostly because the place is old, dating to 1911. That’s where you get your history from. Old stuff.

Dallas used to have some history, but it doesn’t any more. Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson played the neighborhood some decades back, before the city scraped all that shit off the map. As more buildings go down, the blocks around old SOHH are looking mighty naked. Continue reading

Posted in: Gigs at 1:30 am Sat, Mar 21, 2009.

Watch me open the Duct Tape Gala

“Everbody’s against the war and nobody likes cops!” a disappointed Bush voter told me recently. What better way, then, to celebrate our love for authority than the Duct Tape Gala, set for 3-10 p.m. CDT Sunday, March 15, benefiting the 302nd MP Company based in Mosul, Iraq.

Like Saddam’s green front-line troops, I’ll be the sacrificial opening act, performing a brisk 30-minute set on the big stage at Sons of Hermann Hall, 3414 Elm St. in Dallas. Continue reading

Posted in: Gigs at 2:16 am Fri, Mar 13, 2009.