by Slade | Jan 11, 2018 | Current Events
If the American population was a ride it would be closed for maintenance, and more likely condemned to be torn down and rebuilt as something better. What are we mad at today? Boko haram, gay wedding cakes, dead gorillas, Mexican walls, trans rights? Or was all that...
by Slade | Dec 30, 2017 | Current Events, Travel
Reasons I liked 2017: Rehabbed elephants Thai sunsets Dragon boats Street food Singapore in the rain Toronto Colorado hikes Ethiopian dancing (yo yo yo yo yo!) Storms in Agadez (and late night drinks in Niamey) The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Lagoon pools in Bahrain...
by Slade | Dec 18, 2017 | Comedy, Current Events
Who is Walter Palmer? Don’t Google him, just run him through your memory’s filters and we’ll get back to it. We live in a culture of outrage. In my line of work, one of the things I have to do so deftly is walk the tightrope between empathy and calling out bullshit. ...
by Slade | Dec 11, 2017 | Current Events
Ready Player One. I stole the title. It’s a book by Ernest Cline, soon to be a Steven Spielberg blockbuster. Still, I couldn’t think of a video game reference that fit better. I find myself intrigued by people’s purposes. Their motivations. What makes some people...
by Slade | Nov 19, 2017 | Current Events, Kicks in the Ass
The whole world is selling you something. It’s in IKEA floor plans and checkout lines and the way they herd you past impulse items. It’s in the way the lead character in your favorite show sets his glass down with the logo facing you. It’s in every Facebook...
by Slade | Oct 4, 2017 | Current Events
“It’s a conspiracy! I wasn’t there when it happened and I haven’t been to the place since then, and I haven’t ever been there at all actually, but whatever. But I have read the reports other people posted on Facebook though, as well as this USA Today infographic, and...
by Slade | Sep 26, 2017 | Current Events
I’m personally good at games, gambling to be exact, I love 666CASINO because it’s convenient to play online casino games that are real, but the problem is, I think, someone ‘s good at me when it comes to comedy. I’ve been beaten in every comedy...
by Slade | Sep 18, 2017 | Comedy, Current Events, Travel
It’s funny. I had an entire thing written to launch this website, which, by the way, I should probably welcome you to. It was full of a bunch of notes about the last seventeen years of my life and how happy I am to be headed down this new road, or some such nonsense....
by Slade | Sep 4, 2017 | Current Events
We are a mob. All day every day. Individual drops of water, of course, all of us, but there’s no denying the big, wide, river current that exists all around us. Good or bad, it’s easy to get swept up in it. I see it in comedy clubs all the time. People show up,...
