Busy day today, lots of time on airplanes, Ohio -> Baltimore -> Long Island. Still can’t believe I grew up here, the accents seem so foreign to me. Spent a lot of time in the mall, bought a dumb headphone adapter for my iPhone and almost bought a 5×5 rubick’s cube. Sat in the bookshop and read / skimmed Brazen Careerist. Ms. Trunk makes a lot of good points about the way the world has changed. In summary, 30 is the new 20, the average person has 8.something jobs before they are 30 and people are now more focused on personal development than climbing the corporate ladder.

The points hit fairly close to home. I like her writing style. I also listened to almost all of Steve Martin’s book, Born Standing Up. I have read literally hundreds of books about comedy and comedy writing, and this is one of the most non-pretentious and truthful that I have found.

I wasn’t aware that he had such a close writing partnership with Bob Einstein aka Super Dave Osborne aka brother of Albert Brooks, aka son of Parkyakarkus (legendary comedian who literally died on stage at a Friar’s club roast — look it up) Anyway, Martin has an amazing perspective on his career and ideas of what comedy is. It’s a dishonor that his name and Dane Cook have been used in the same sentence (mentioning fastest selling comedy albums) and yes I understand the irony that I just used both of their names in the same sentence.

Anyway, I have lots running through my mind idea-wise.
And tons of projects to take on…

Bye for now.

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