Comedy

D and I have three sets of tickets for comedy performances here in PDX in the coming months. I just bought tickets for David Sedaris in April. We have Demitri Martin in November and then Kathy Griffin in January. I like having these types of events to look forward to. And anyone who doesn't think Kathy Griffin is hilarious is obviously smoking something. She used to annoy me and, to a certain extent, still does. However, she is so dead-on in making fun of how ridiculous celebrities are.

The new sitcom The Class was aired at midnight (or something like that) on the Discovery channel the other night in a special viewing for TiVo subscribers. I'm sure anyone could have seen it, but it was only advertised on TiVo boxes. Interesting concept. It is probably an attempt to see how many people would do it given it aired at a time that a vast majority of the people would not watch it live (despite being aired without commercials). Anyway, it was pretty funny, so we may have a new sitcom to look forward to this year.

Today is our first delivery of our organic, local produce. I'm home all day, so I'll be here to receive it. Otherwise, they encourage you to leave a cooler out front. I'm excited to see what fruits I'll get and to see if they're better than buying at the store.

Finally, relations with the neighbor with the large, charging black dog have warmed a bit. He and I have managed to say hi to each other a couple of times recently. Today, his dog got loose while he was gone and was standing in front another neighbor's house barking and barking. I finally went out there to try and scare him back home and stop the barking only to discover he'd cornered a cat. Anyway, the nanny next door and I tried fruitlessly to catch him (he runs and is very fearful which comes out in charging and barking). Finally, I went inside and got some biscuits and lured him bit by bit to his house. I couldn't catch him, but was making progress at getting him to come close to me when I finally just sat down on the pavement. About this time, the neighbor showed up and was very grateful that I was trying to catch him.