Had a fun night at Cobb's Comedy Club last night for Sketchfest.

Phil got me tix and we had good seats up close to watch comic actors like Tony Hale, Jennifer Tilly, Thomas Lennon, Larraine Newman and others reading from celebrity memoirs to hilarious effect.

The best bit was probably when they did dueling points of view from Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor's memoirs about the scandalous, marriage wrecking affair.

Tony played Mike Todd announcing across a dinner table to Elizabeth Taylor (Jennifer) "As soon as you're done with that I'm going to fuck you."

Thomas Lennon was great as Burton weirdly defending the utterly cuckolded Fisher as he yelled at Elizabeth Taylor: "My god, woman can't you see how much he loves you? If you don't go to him immediately I'm going to take him upstairs and fuck him myself!"

(These are all direct quotes from the various memoirs, so nothing was added or iprov-ed.)

Jennifer was also great, pinch hitting for Pamela Adlon (who had Covid) and reading Melissa Gilbert's memoir where she stalked Rob Lowe after he dumped her for Nastassa Kinski. Biggest laugh: "You don't fuck with America's sweetheart!"

Tony Hale was fantastic throughout, wringing comic bits out of the official bio of Sandy (the dog from Little Orphan Annie). He's surprisingly handsome when he's not playing Buster on Arrested Development.

Got to meet and talk with Dave Foley after since he's got another Sketchfest thing today with Jennifer that we'll be attending today, and he knows Phil and Jennifer from the poker world.

It's always a little weird to get sucked into the penumbra of Jennifer's celebrity. She had four of her hardcore Instagram followers fly out from Pennsylvania for the show, and she took so much time after to make sure she met and talked with them and they all got pictures with her. And then when we were walking to dinner in North Beach seven Japanese tourist dudes surrounded her and wanted her to sign 8x10 glossies and Funko pop dolls. She was very gracious and patient with all of them.

Anyway, it's been fun poking around SF with them, and I'm looking forward to them meeting Matilda this afternoon. I'm at the tail end of my cold with just some chest congestion but it's definitely sapping some of my energy, so I'm looking forward to some restful days after two weekends in a row of heavy socializing.

I thought I was exhausted after my Keys trip, but now that I've read David's post I am even more exhausted. Sounds like so much fun.

Oh yeah, that sounds great!

{{{Susan}}} Lots of ~ma headed your way.

Meanwhile in Tennessee, we are having our fourth snow day of the week (so that makes for a full week off from school, including MLK Day on Monday), and our street is still basically a sheet of ice. Yesterday the temperature was just above freezing for a few hours, but since it was accompanied by heavy cloud cover and freezing rain, that really didn't help matters. The next time we're supposed to get above freezing is sometime on Monday, so god knows how long it will take for all the roads to be drivable again. In my 15 years here I've never seen snow/ice shut the city down for this long!

Wow, thats a lot. Are the kids climbing the walls? I hope they get back to school this week. We actually got an apology email from the superintendent of ltc's school district for not cancelling on Tuesday, which turned into a very not good driving day. Last year he cancelled way too often, but this was definitely an overcorrection.

So the SF Symphony was delightful, and surprising in a couple ways. First, the Tennessee Williams Theater in Key West is a very nice venue. The first piece I wasn't looking forward to because only strings, and that isn't really my thing but I always enjoy watching anyway. It ended up being a piece by a black woman composer in the 20s, and we all were swept away with the piece. It was entrancing. Price (1887 – 1953) | “Andante Moderato for String Orchestra”. Then there was Bach, which was Bach and enjoyable, and piano, which is always a hit with me. Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A Major. The 3rd piece I had looked for before the concert to see what it was and hadn't been able to find anything, which made sense because it wasn't even completed yet. The pianist, who is collaborating with the composer, said that what we heard would be the first time it was heard, and the last because still a work in progress. It was amazing. Montgomery (b. 1981) Rounds featuring Awadagin Pratt, piano. I will follow them in the future. The last piece was Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, which was Brahms. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the 2 pieces I had never heard of were our absolute favorites. And a good time was had by all!!

Other than the symphony there was eating, swimming, and relaxing on the boat house. Why am I so tired?

Good evening from the foothills where it rained most of the day but I was mostly working so it wasn't a problem.

but now that I've read David's post I am even more exhausted. Sounds like so much fun.

Both are true. Very fun and I'm very tired.

Tonight I took Matilda with me to a viewing of cult comedy The Wrong Guy (1997?) with Dave Foley and Jennifer Tilly. I'd never seen it and it was hilariously funny in the vein of Steve Martin's The Jerk or the Man With Two Brains. Very silly but very smart and so funny.

Afterwards went to dinner with Jennifer and Phil, and Matilda got to hang out with them and know them, which was fun. We recreated the picture of baby Matilda with them 16 years later.

Today we celebrate the birth of the lovely Windsparrow. I hope that you have a lovely day and that the year to come brings much joy and laughter.

I am on the east coast. My alarm went off at a heinous hour. I am coffeed but still don’t want to be awake. But I’m supposed to do work? That seems so unfair.

It is unfair that we have to be working at this hour, even for those of us with bodies on east coast time.