I'm hosting late night talk show on Saturday!

I am hosting a FREE late night talk show on Saturday Night!

The FREE improvised late night talk show, "The Mystery Hour" has its world premiere this Saturday night at 10 pm at The Skinny Improv theater!! I (Mystery Jeff) am hosting it along with my sidekick, Dan Clair, and the help of other Skinny players.

I am super excited about the guests we have lined up:

DOUG HARPOOL, Democratic candidate for State Senate, just three days before the election.

MATT LEMMON, Editor of wildly popular Go Magazine

MIKE ROBINSON, musical guest, acoustic guitar genius.

The format for the show will be just like a late night talk show, except mostly improvised. I will take a suggestion from the audience for a monologue, we will do some hilarious comedy bits, then we'll sit down and interview the fascinating guests! You will provide many of the questions for the interviews!

RECAP:
When: Saturday Night at 10 pm
Where: Skinny Improv Theater
How Much: FREE, FREE, FREE
Who: Host, Jeff Houghton
Sidekick, Dan Clair
Actors, Skinny Players
Suggesters, You
Guests, Matt Lemmon & Doug Harpool
Musical Guest, Mike Robinson
Why: Because awesomeness will surely abound!

checking

straws

So I am going mostly insane trying to work, do the skinny, buy my first house, go to a onference for work, plan a wedding, have major sinus surgery. so right now i notice more things that are annoying.

why is it that at convenience stores they put the lids and straws in places far away from the actual fountain drinks. I think the FDA should step in and make policy stating that lids and straws need to be together no more than five feet away from carbonated beverage nozzles. Yesterday I tried to put a coffee lid on my fountain pop. Silly me I was in the coffee lid section, not the fountain pop section. The fountain pop section was apparently not to mingle with the coffee lids. The lid kind of fit, but not really. So I spent awhile doing the thing where you spread your legs out a little, squat a little and glide back and forth stealthlike in an attempt to find the proper precious lid.

Don't even get me started on trying to figure out the prices which are often in some sort of code only the windtalkers could figure out.

i'm done now.

poem

here is a poem i recently wrote. i'm pretty sure nobody reads my site anymore since i never post anything. if you do read this you might be stalking me or engaged to me.

OPEN PALM

the only thing we have to fear...does not exist

life's open palm is not a fist

when I fall I fly and when I fly I fall

to a crow the sky is no risk at all

my mother's son, the fear runs deep

yet in the quiet times I dream of dreams

dreams that ask me not to tell

the fear within, its looming quell.

lawrence from hr

so here is something i think is funny. at my job at the blood center there are people who work in the telerecruitment department, meaning that they call people before blood drives to remind them to come in and donate. they are all sweet old people who you couldn't possibly say no to unless you are a heartless jerk. one of the telerecruiters is a retired pastor who is in his 70s named Kermit. Yes he is actually named Kermit. He walks with a limp and is super sweet. Well the other day he walked in and I said, "lookout, here comes trouble." Here's my problem, geriatric Kermit is by no means trouble, he has never been problem and nobody would be worried that Kermit might become trouble. There is no chance that Kermit would jump up on the table, tear his shirt off and shout expletives. Yet this is a common conversation that people have. " Oh boy, lookout Lawrence from HR is here." Lawrence from HR is just going to talk about his four cats and his weekend visit from his 'squirrely niece.' It is a waste of talking for people in our society to continue with such things. So keep this in mind the next time you plan on making small talk by endowing your co-worker with unrealistic diva like qualities. This has been a public service announcement brought to you by Jeff. **The More you Know**