Saturday Morning Writing

Nick Cave and my new show WILD CARD

I am here. Writing to you. The reader. Because it is Saturday morning and when the clock strikes midnight the week will be ending. I told myself I had to write a post on my Substack this week or else! And so here I am.

I am unsure of what the OR ELSE would be. I think the OR ELSE is I would be very disappointed in myself. But I have started to reframe some of this thinking…I would be letting YOU down. Because I have things to share with you, thoughts and feelings and stories and jokes and insights into the world and if I don’t put them out I am doing a disservice to YOU.

This week was a bit of an emotional roller coaster after a peek at my bank account and looking at my calendar for the next few months. Basically I have decided to once again go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a new show, that is yet to be written called WILD CARD and I am still transitioning mentally, emotionally and financially from the past year of working on After Endgame. And in the midst of this financially precarious situation I am putting myself in…I bought tickets to see Nick Cave in Philadelphia tonight. I had just seen Nick Cave and the bartender at Barbes was upset he missed him in Brooklyn, so now I am driving to Philly to see him again. And this is a great excuse to put the pictures my good friend Jeremy Stanley took at the concert in Brooklyn. I mean….look at those? I had to spend $150 and get to Philly for a little more of that.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Brooklyn NY April 17. JEREMY STANLEY PHOTOG MASTER

My show Wild Card is billed as an improvised storytelling show, so I will have a deck of cards with a ton of different jokes and stories and ideas on it, then the audience will decide where the show goes next. This is just an idea I had that will cover up for the fact that I have no idea what I am doing or going to do for this show. But sounds fun to me. Having said that…

do you have any questions you can ask me that would help get my brain start to storm with ideas? Please, ask me questions.

What would you be interested to hear from me?

My first show was about breaking off my engagement and losing my virginity at age 30.

My second show was about getting bullied in middle school, going bald at 16 and coming of age.

My third show was about moving to New York to be an actor and suing my landlord for a broken door to my apartment.

My fourth show was about loaning a girl I met on Hinge $15,000 for a green card and learning to ride a motorcycle.

My fifth show was about flying to Singapore to teach chess to billionaires.

What should my sixth show be about? We don’t need any grand themes yet, let’s just get the ball rolling on some fun things to talk about?

OK…I am going to go do my push ups and then head to Philadelphia to be blessed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Oh…I bought these blank cards. So any questions you write to me…I will write them onto these cards and then they can be in the show? That’s fun right? Maybe? OK bye.