Smoking My Friends Down to the Filter

Photobucket I travel a lot. I write sketches, do improv, stand up comedy, and just artsy stuff in general. I toured with a pop band and it was the worst thing ever. Did some short films that you will never see. I get asked to punch up other peoples work a lot. The credit for the title of this blog belongs to Tom Waits. If you got to this site by clicking on a link to a specific post you can go back to the main blog page by clicking on the "Smoking My Friends Down to the Filter" text at the top. Check out my tweets below and follow me there. Now read on you crazy diamond!

I have never been one to care much for this stuff but with so many people fighting against it I have taken up this cross. I hate it when people in public tell me Merry Christmas. There are other holidays being celebrated that are greeted with a flat out refusal to recognize them. So whenever some random tells me Merry Christmas I respond with Happy Hanukkah as a sort of rebellion even though I’m not Jewish. Just to make them think and maybe change their greeting to “Happy Holidays.” Well the majority of the time the response is “Are you Jewish?!” with this look of excitement as if to say “I finally found one!” When did Judaism become the joke of the holiday season? I find the response a bit prejudice…

2 months ago