Uh oh, feeling heavy…

I don’t normally do really heavy, deep blog posts, but I feel like there’s a big bubble in me that’s about to burst, so I have to get it vented out somehow, and this blog is the only way I know how at this point. I have this nebulous feeling of confusion with who I am and what I want to do with my life that it really feels overwhelming.

I feel the overwhelming need to travel. I feel stuck. The quicksand dry tides of Tucson are sucking me steadily down into their skeleton bone-dry corpse hands and there’s no way to avoid this vortex of mediocrity and cement boots. I need to get out, at least for awhile. I need to see other ways of living. I need to open up my head a little and have the human race help me explain to me why I’m here exactly.

I feel no passion for anything anymore. I used to love doing things like film and theatre, and I still love to do them, but I feel like I need to get out of here for awhile. If I had the money, I’d go to the airport right now and ask what the next flight out of the country is and go. I can’t do this. I can’t have a cookie cutter life like this. A cushy government job, a house, a little insignificant life like most Americans. It’s not really for me.

This post is really dark, but I don’t know where else to get this out. I apologize and encourage you to stop reading this right now and watch Care Bears or something.

I think I’m alright for now. I know in an hour or two it’s going to come back, but at least I’ve gotten this out.

Get John Hodgman’s Book “The Areas of My Expertise” for only FIVE US BONES!

I’m hugely surprised that I am breaking this and Jacob Karnas isn’t, because Karnas pretty much does everything short of giving him a handy in the back of a Greyhound, but I couldn’t keep this deal to myself…I have to spread it to the blogosphere. You can now get John Hodgman’s book”The Areas of My Expertise” for only $5! That’s right, FIVE US DOLLARS! That’s like…one gallon of gas! So go, buy buy buy!

You can do so here: http://www.amazon.com/Areas-My-Expertise-John-Hodgman/dp/B000O17CZ6/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b

Comedian George Carlin dies at 71.

Well, it seems as though every blogger is posting about the death of the great comedian, George Carlin. I’m glad to see this because he was a revolutionary comic. It seems as though Carlin died of heart failure on Sunday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. I got this news right when it came out (and it wasn’t even up on CNN yet) right after we wrapped on another episode of my radio show, The MT Ironstag Show (yes, I’m that shameless about my plugging).

It’s really a shame. I was fortunate enough to be able to see one of his acts here in Tucson and I remember thinking that he was starting to look frail. I think all of the drugs and alcohol probably didn’t help him much, but 71 is a long time to live. I’m sure he wasn’t afraid and didn’t even care much that he would die. As he once said in one of his sketches:

‘Older’ sounds a little better than ‘old,’ doesn’t it? Sounds like it might even last a little longer. … I’m getting old. And it’s OK. Because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won’t have to die — I’ll ‘pass away.’ Or I’ll ‘expire,’ like a magazine subscription. If it happens in the hospital they’ll call it a ‘terminal episode.’ The insurance company will refer to it as ‘negative patient care outcome.’ And if it’s the result of malpractice they’ll say it was a ‘therapeutic misadventure.

And with that, thank you George Carlin. I guarantee you will be missed, even if you don’t want it.

And I will up the stakes on Jacob Karnas’ final words to Carlin with his famous “Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television”: Here’s to you, George: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

Take a tour with me!

Here’s another vlog of me showing you a tour of my new house. Join me, won’t you?

Some more cool shit.

I’ve signed up for TwitPic. It’s a pretty cool service.

As most of you know, I’ve been on Twitter for awhile. If you haven’t followed me yet, you should do so, here: twitter.com/TaylorGenovese. I found a service (that’s probably been around for awhile) called TwitPic that allows you to do Twitter updates with photos. So now I can do updates with pictures.

Check it out here: http://twitpic.com/photos/taylorgenovese

So check it out. It’ll be updated often. Not as often as my Twitter, but I’ll be trying to update it more often as well. It’s pretty cool.

Continuing on…

As you all know, I am in the middle of a blog-wide June Post Off with several other people, one of is unknowingly in the competition. I doubt that I will be able to come even close to achieving second, let alone first, but it’s good motivation to continue updating.

David and I are currently collaborating on writing a book. We’re going to try and finish the first draft by the end of the summer and then try and publish it by the end of the year. We’re going to take turns writing chapters so it’ll have a unique feel to it. It should be fun, if David ever finishes the beginning.

I’ve got some catching up to do…

Well, it seems as though I’ve been sucked into a post-off in June that I had no idea about.

I unsuspectedly read through Jacob’s blog, which I do about once a week just to check on the life of Karnas and realized that he said that he was “pwning” me at the post off. Well, no one uses the word pwn so lightly in my life, so the post off is ON!

I have alot of catching up to do, so I’d better pace myself. More later…