"YOU MUST PLEASE REMEMBER"

I'm going to remind all of you about this Monday, too, but I want to give you plenty of notice for this because it's really important.

A friend of mine from back in the day in NY, Nasry Malak is a terribly talented comedian and is days, maybe a week, tops, away from being insanely, blindingly famous and forgetting about all of us. But, I'm here to get you on the inside track. His stand-up and his sketch comedy work is going to be on Comedy Central's Motherload Monday. Day. After. To. Mor. Row. So, click on over there and check him out and laugh really loudly so people will say, "Hey, what the hell are you laughing at?" And you'll point to your computer monitor and they'll want to see it, and then someone else will want to see it and that will be that.

(Nasry, there, I plugged it. Can I have my five bucks now?)

In other news, a friend just sent me a text message that read, "Hot guy + tiny dog = Gay"... I replied, "Or really whipped...?"

Um, that has nothing to do with the previous topic. Sorry to start rumors about Nasry.

"ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME"

How is anyone expected to listen to Balkan Beat Box and not dance? And, while we’re on the subject of Bands I Enjoy, I’ve been rockin’ out to Gogol Bordello a bit lately, too. Now, the super-duper thing that I realized is that Balkan Beat Box links to Gogol Bordello on their website, yes, yes, but also to Big Lazy, a band I first heard at Black Betty in Brooklyn about five years ago when I still lived in New York. I loved them then and I love them now. The nicotine song from the 1999 self-titled album is my favorite.

Pssh, you’d think these dudes are paying me to plug, them, but they are not. I don’t know any of them. Just a fan.

Shabbes could not have been better. I shook things up and did things a little differently this week and enjoyed it immensely. Actually, my birthday was fantastic, too. I think this year of my life is off to an excellent start.