Shady Tactics from Northwestern Mutual
I received a rather casual sounding call at my office from a fellow at Northwestern Mutual. It seems that this guy had just gotten done talking to my good friend X. X, being someone I have never met face to face and only know through social networking. The fellow was surprised that X hadn’t called me about his call! X had, allegedly, dropped my name as someone who may be interested in the financial services that Northwestern Mutual has to offer. At this point, I hang up on the salesman from Northwestern Mutual. Obviously, X would never...
read moreI Will Find The Crunch Cone
There is a product at Dairy Queen known as the Crunch Cone. It is a simple soft serve ice cream cone covered in a topping known as Crunch Coat. Crunch Coat is made up of sprinkles, crushed peanuts, and magic crunchy things that can’t be explained. It is a fantastic treat and rare find. You see, if a Dairy Queen franchise does offer the Crunch Cone, it usually can’t be found on the menu. You need to special order it, like you’re a celebrity. And the majority of Dairy Queens don’t even carry Crunch Coat any longer. So, my...
read moreWhat A Mess!
Guys, what is going on with this ad? Does the prominent “WHAT A MESS!” refer to the ad itself? Or is it what God is thinking about the current state of Earth’s Powerpoint presentations? Perhaps God is referring to his mangled right hand, where Jesus is supposed to sit. Or He’s talking about the galaxy he accidentally conjured up within our solar system. Maybe God is crashing into Earth, and he is lamenting the mess it will make. And what does Africa think it’s up to? All pictures of Earth should focus on North...
read morePerformance Tonight
Hey, I haven’t performed improv since trip to Chicago! Well, luckily for it’s time again for Minnesota to get its fill of the Mustache Rangers. Here are the details. What: Mix Tape Comedy Where: Comedy Sportz Theater When: February 13th, 2009 at 10:30 PM Price: $10 Also performing are HUGE Theater and Boytron, two highly recommended groups. Really, I recommend them highly. I don’t know why you wouldn’t go. Valentine’s Day is a day for sleeping in, after all. That’s what love is about.
read moreSo I Am Told
I made this video a year ago. It has been sitting on my hard drive doing nothing. Now it is on internet. So I Am Told – Snow – watch more funny...
read moreThursday Night Adventures
Last Thursday I was going to see Ka-Baam!!, the improvised comic book show put on by HUGE theater, for the second time. My plan for the evening was to sit at work and eat canned soup until 6pm, so I wouldn’t have to drive home and then immediately turn around and head for the Bryant-Lake Bowl theater. The eating beef and vegetable soup while watching edited Star Trek: TNG clips part of my plan worked fine. And so, at the correct time, I was off to the theater. I arrived at Bryant and Lake at around 6:30. I was early enough to hop over to...
read moreEmbarrassing 2 – Drunk
I don’t have many drinking stories, and don’t drink very often, but embarrassment can be found in a shallow puddles and deep oceans alike. So here they are. Each item on the list can be preceded by “during an evening of drinking.” It became very important for me to tell my friend how much I appreciated his appreciation of the Dave Matthews band. I disliked said band, but spent a good 10 minutes telling him it was cool that he did like them. This was, of course, in college. After drinking X shots of Wild Turkey during a...
read moreMonster at the End of This Bookstore
I entered the Borders bookstore in Minnetonka and was drawn, as all customers are, to the tables near the entrance. These are the tables that hold pretty looking hardcovers that just came out. While I had more than enough unread books at home, new and shiny things were nice to buy. I walked to the tables on an impulse. And, soon, I would be fighting another impulse with every fiber of my being. You see, I was not the only patron that day. My back was to the entrance when a horrifying sound found its way in to the bookstore. A textured and...
read moreRipping Myself Off
When people ask me where I get my comic strip ideas, I guess I can say I get them from myself.
read moreEmbarrassing
At an earlier point in my life I believed I couldn’t be embarrassed. I now realize that my intake of embarrassment must have been a bit like my constant intake of air. My body drank it in unconsciously and never realized it. And with that, here are some embarrassing things about myself that I remembered today! I used to wear a fedora to classes in college. Not a real one. A costume piece fedora from the Norcostco theater costume shop. In middle school, I was really in to the Black Stallion books. I mean, really in to them. I also threw...
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