Bell Bottom Blues
Friday, March 4, 2005-4:34 P.M.
Today hooked up with our M.C. for the weekend, James Ponce for lunch. San Antonio comics Jay Whitecotton and Christina Lopez attended, and we had a lovely time enjoying Mexican food and talk about the comedy business. Christina had to go back to her bartending job, then the boys graciously carted me around to a Goodwill store where I purchased some music tapes and a saucepan. The music tape thing is a little hobby of mine that keeps the road from becoming boring and suicidal; I have a tape deck in my car, a 1996 Toyota Corolla (no CD player), so what I do is bring enough tapes on my road journeys to get me where I have to go, and then I have to go to Goodwill stores to buy music to listen to on the way back. The benefits are that I am forced to choose from the selection in the Goodwill stores (vs. going to a real music store and buying the same boring stuff) and I only have to pay about 50 cents each for the tapes....if I really don't like them, I can just wing them out of the window. Today I scored INXS live (didn't even know they had one), Delbert McClinton (excellent), Gin Blossoms and can't remember the fourth one. I also bought a nice saucepan for the comedy condo....they are a little understocked in the kitchenware department. I looked at clothes for a little while, but they never have anything my size....thank God....no Brady Bunch shirts in a 3X? I might lose my mind and actually buy one of those things!
Last night I blanched the crowd a little bit with some of my dirtier material, which is a shame, because I felt they were really enjoying me up to that point. I will have to adjust for the weekend, as I figure it will be more of the same.
San Antonio is shaping up to be a very good experience, I'm glad I took the gig.
More tomorrow.
Ralph Tetta
Rochester, NY
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