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Offline Michael Hardner

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Perfect Day
« on: November 25, 2017, 10:15:29 pm »
I had a Lou Reed perfect day.  I will talk about it, but don't read if you don't care....

Wife and I went to the gym and I finally (this is not a joke) finished the procrastination podcast while on the eliptical thing.  Some good advice and I will try using it on myself as I start working on the card game I'm developing.  ( Yes it's about politics. )  Those self-help people all sound like they're from Michigan.

Next, the upstairs neighbour came downstairs.  He's been depressed but he was happy because he had some romantic success with his friend's gal.  This sounds weird, I know, but he's young and they're all open relationship people so apparently it's all cool.  Wife made BLTs and we listened to a reissue of Zappa & The Mothers' Freak Out ! before heading down to the record store.  ( I never got into Zappa except for a few well-known songs like Peaches Regalia, so I'm trying to education myself... )  At the record store, we bought St. Vincent, Donna Summer, Beggar's Banquet Records Compilation, Modern Lovers (A collector LP), and Kurt Vile/Courtney Barnett. (sp?) The later are young indie rock people, but when we got home just now and **** open the record there was Lee Ann Womack (new country?!?) LP inside !

By the time we were done it was 3 pm, so we headed to a bar where I appear in a comedy show once a month.  It is their 90th anniversary today ! So we wanted to come by for the party, which included recreating a famous picture they have on their wall (b&w) of a crowd outside on VE day in 1945.  There was free beer !  We all went outside, which was good because it was warm, and this older 'regular' decides to climb a small tree out front.  ( It was actually a tiny tree, and he was aping a kid who did the same thing in 1945. )  He got caught in the little tree about 6 feet off the ground.  I think he was drunk, anyway, and eventually he was hanging upside down as people laughed at him.

We got the crowd picture from a photog on a roof across the street, then wife, myself and a local clown went to Chinatown for some great Vietnamese food.  Then we headed down to TIFF to check out The Square - a Swedish surreal dramedy with Kate Moss.  The film was almost 3 hours, and pretty dry stuff.  We wanted a late dessert but the TIFF restaurant manager told us they were understaffed so they couldn't serve us even with open tables.  We drove, almost running over 3 or 4 people in separate incidents (Saturday night young drunks walking in front of us, or biking in one case) to a restaurant in our hood and got the SAME line from the manager... ( Table for 18 :( ) We were able to order draft beer and any ready-made desserts.

Perfect day and I am thankful it was warm enough to walk around and do all of this.  I hear cold wind and rain now against the windows.  Thanks for talking to me on here and have a warm and blessed night.

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Offline SirJohn

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Re: Perfect Day
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2017, 10:56:39 am »
Uhm, you appear in a comedy show? Not to be critical or anything, but I haven't ever noticed an abundance of humor in your posts over the past many years. :o
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2017, 11:02:05 am »
Uhm, you appear in a comedy show? Not to be critical or anything, but I haven't ever noticed an abundance of humor in your posts over the past many years. :o

Savin' it up, for Friday night.

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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2017, 11:07:47 am »
My humour, it is dry.  Dispensed properly, I bring the house down regularly.  Also this is the 2nd time I have been told "but you're not funny online"

I used to live with Debra DiGiovani - who is a big deal in Canadian comedy.  We lived with another guy who was a writer who eventually ended up in Hollywood.  There were workmen in the apartment one day working on things, and they eventually heard a conversation between the room mates that indicated that they were comedians.

They stopped working.  "Really ?" but you don't *sound* funny.

Funny is a job.   I am funny.


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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2017, 11:10:23 am »
Funny is a job.   I am funny.

Funny is not a job. Funny is a mentality. Funny is irreverence bordering on insanity.
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2017, 11:18:34 am »
Funny is not a job. Funny is a mentality. Funny is irreverence bordering on insanity.



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Re: Perfect Day
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2017, 11:40:21 am »
Yo Mikey, that chicken is DEF inSANE!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2017, 11:58:00 am »
My humour, it is dry.  Dispensed properly, I bring the house down regularly.
Same kind of dry humor here.  I am not in a comedy troupe, but I often say things that crack people up. 

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Also this is the 2nd time I have been told "but you're not funny online"
Yeah I have mostly given up trying to be funny online. 

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Funny is a job.  I am funny.
I've had people tell me I should be a stand-up comedian, but I don't know if I could be funny on demand like that.  I am.impreased by people who can.  And who are willing to put themselves out there and risk not getting the laugh.

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Re: Perfect Day
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2017, 12:07:34 pm »


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A rubber chicken is not funny.

A big, scary boss, say like Stephen Harper, taking a rubber chicken to an important board meeting and laying it on the table without mentioning it at all while everyone at the table wondered WTF! but not daring to ask is funny.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Perfect Day
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2017, 12:09:30 pm »
Stand up requires talent for sure but mostly it requires work.

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« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2017, 12:23:36 pm »
Having been brought up quite close to Scottish immigrant grandparents, and then later on traveling throughout Canada and eventually a lot of the world, I seem to have developed a knack for mocking accents, and I can switch from one to another fairly seamlessly. I used to be able to tell if I heard someone speak in St. John's NL I could tell what village on the Labrador coast they haled from. Public speaking on a stage scared the hell out of me the few times I've done so, but the boys and girls I join with at the pub from time to time will ask me for a demo.  especially when someone new comes along. Lard 'tunderin' Jesus byes, now dat's fun.

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« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2017, 12:25:56 pm »
MH is hilarious. Impeccable timing.

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Re: Perfect Day
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2017, 12:32:02 pm »
A rubber chicken is not funny.

A big, scary boss, say like Stephen Harper, taking a rubber chicken to an important board meeting and laying it on the table without mentioning it at all while everyone at the table wondered WTF! but not daring to ask is funny.

Your 2 statements are contradictory.

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« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2017, 12:32:49 pm »
MH is hilarious. Impeccable timing.

Ok, well then thanks.  I will update on my show in a separate thread sometime.

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« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2017, 12:33:33 pm »
Your 2 statements are contradictory.
After all these years, you’re not going to explain context to SirJohn.