Hey, I’m going to be participating in Comedy Emergency, a fundraiser for Partners in Health, to support their work in Haiti. They’re an amazing organization, and I’m so pleased to be part of this event.
It’s this Thursday, January 21, and it’s uptown at the Triad.
Featuring:
-Musical Improv by Los Banditos Del Canto accompanied by Chicago City Limits alum, the phenomenal pianist Frank Spitznagel.
-Stand up by Kate Berlant (Crime and Punishment) and Todd Meierhans
-Clowning by Spencer Novich (Cirque du Soleil)
-Close up Magician Josh Beckerman
-and ME!
Hosted By:
Ben Weber (Producer, Comedy Night at BAMcafé) and
Ben Wellington (Los Banditos Del Canto, Cherub Improv)
Please come. It’s one of the few occasions you can do some good by drinking and laughing.

Two things that offer a bit of distraction from this shit-sucking week.
One:
The Wedding Present are touring the US this spring and performing their album Bizarro in its entirety. Tickets go on sale today! I might actually buy some for the April 11 Bowery Ballroom show.
Two:
This collection of photos, Ladies Love Outlaws, showcases the pantheon of Outlaw country music (plus some other greats like Jerry Lee Lewis). Honky tonk heroes (like I aspire to be).
Waylon & Willie, Honky Tonk Heroes Like Me
There’s Roz Chast cartoon from the New Yorker, in which someone’s looking at the obituary page of the newspaper, and the headlines read “Two years younger than you” and “Your age on the dot” and it’s one of the few Chast cartoons from the past 20 years that don’t seem clueless and twee, but anyhow, I can’t even speak to how sad it is to discover that Jay Reatard, who was five years younger than I am, has died. I had no idea how young he was, because he was that much of a fucking genius.
This is actually a serious message, folks. If you want to donate money to help earthquake efforts in Haiti, consider donating to Doctors Without Borders or Partners in Health.
Go read this:
….A massive and immediate international response is needed to provide food, water, shelter, and medical supplies for tens of thousands of people.
In an urgent email from Port-au-Prince, Louise Ivers, our clinical director in Haiti, appealed for assistance from her colleagues in the Central Plateau: “Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS… Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us.”
With our hospitals and our highly trained medical staff in place in Haiti, Partners In Health is already mobilizing resources and preparing plans to bring medical assistance and supplies to areas that have been hardest hit. In Boston, our procurement and development teams are already fielding numerous offers of support and making arrangements to deliver resources as quickly as possible to the places where they are needed most.
…and then donate.
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