Dane Cook is the comedian of The Trip. For about a year people had been telling us tails of this man, quoting things from his bits… finally someone gave us some discs a couple of years ago and we tittered mightily. Sometimes we guffawed. And indeed, much of it was very funny.
And we’ve just passed Baltimore, OH and we’re again listening to Dane Cook. He’s not as funny, but I still grin and titter. Family Guy did a really good Dane Cook bit and since then, some of the humour has drained away. I think Dane should retaliate and do a Family Guy bit and then there would be nothing funny left in my Life. Other than Drinky Crow, of course.
Last night we headed out to an open mic in Columbus, OH – Fatt’s was a lot of fun. It looked totally empty upon entry, but our friend Brandon came out with a bunch of his friends and we had a great time with them.
As we close on our venue (within five miles of Your Inner Vagabond) an interesting drama plays out. Earlier on I-70 we noted a car full of kids all goin… wait… two cars full of kids all going to a sh… three cars? Make that four cars and a minivan all going to (presumably) a show… they turned up I-79 with us and then we all got in the traffic line to go to Pittsburgh.
As is the usual case with ANY gig we’re excited about, it falls on the date that the local sports team is in a play off and I BELIEVE us to be in the traffic for the Pittsburgh Penguins who are in a play off of something tonight against someone else. These kids looked more like music-goers than sports-goers (some had guitar cases visible), but who knows…
Unfortunately, as we curved on to 279 we passed the minivan, starter cranking, getting nowhere, pulled off to the side of the road. The other four cars are on the shoulder shortly thereafter and I’m wishing good things for them, wishing i had a bigger vehicle… sigh. That’s going to be an awful story or a great one as either 24 kids get to go to a show OR 20 kids get to go to a show and four bitter ones are stuck outside Pittsburgh.
