Foursquare Mayor of the Comedy Store, Bitches!

I am the Foursquare Mayor (hunh?  What's that?  Read here) of my laundromat and my yoga studio.  Mainly just because I think I'm the only person who has checked in to either place more than once.  Not exactly cool.  So I was incredibly excited when my after-midnight visit to The Comedy Store on Monday night earned me the Mayoral title!

The funny thing is that I had never even been to the Comedy Store until the StripCrawl.  It's stupid really.  I love comedy and this is literally the closest comedy club to my home (just up the hill!) and a pretty awesome one, to boot.  I had tried to go a couple of times, one time we ended up at the Improv instead and the rest of the times the "Let's stop into the Trocadero for a drink first" plan turned into "Let's just stay at the Trocadero until closing time."  But now the place has an irresistible pull for me - especially after midnight.  The crowd thins out and the comics are edgier, drunker and often funnier.  I've also noticed they tend to talk directly to the crowd a lot more.  I don't know if that's considered kind of hacky and a crutch to other comedians, but as an I'm-the-center-of-the-universe egotist in the audience, it's appealing to me.  And, especially since my Jenny Lane Tour, I tend to know at least one or two people hanging out in the back, so I have entertainment if I get bored of the guy on stage.

I was actually starting to get a little self-conscious of my newfound addiction to the 1 am comedians after wandering over there late-night, mid-week last week but now that it confers bragging rights (albeit, nerdy, nerdy bragging rights) I will proudly own up to my secret weakness.

The Jenny Lane Tour

The best compliment I ever received in my life was a friend saying "Amy, when I'm with you, things happen that don't happen to normal people."  I am always the one who will somehow end up trundling us into a car for a ride to that after party.. or, heck, a whole other city.  In other words, I'm the Instigator  So it was a little unusual to find myself in the hands of an even bigger Instigator last Friday after Foursquare Day in the person of Ms Jen Moore.

We had been cleared out of The Viper Room after our free Foursquare Day show in prep for the sold-out real show (thanks Viper Room!) and were headed up to the Rainbow when we started discussing whet should be the plan for the rest of the night.  Now, I should probably mention here that I have developed what I like to call The Circuit for Friday night.  I start at either the Viper Room or the Roxy, depending on who's playing, then go to the Rainbow and finish up at the Sunset Trocadero where I drunkenly harass the other Lat Call patrons to tip Sascha generously.  Sometimes I add another stop or two along the way.  So, when Jen mentioned a similar circuit she had in mind, I decided to just submit utterly and go wherever Jen wanted.

Now, I have been able to come and go mostly anonymously along this Circuit for weeks and months now.  I even commented to a friend it was my "extroverted introvert time" where I got to go be alone with other people.  It was a totally different story with Jen - she knew everyone from the regulars to the doormen to the bus boys everywhere we went.  It was pretty hilarious and awesome.  Plus, she's found all the limited access nooks and crannies in each of these locations, so it was a pretty fun tour of "behind the scenes"  I also got the honor of being one of the first to view Jen's (then) empty new Larabee St apartment (the one so close to the Viper Room it inspired the "Why, Miss Jenny Lane" quotable).

We finally finished up at The Comedy Store where those boys in the Barris/Kennedy Overdrive pretty much kept at it until they were forcibly ejected from the stage by staff who wanted to clean up and get the heck out of there.  Grabbed some "breakfast" at Swingers and I had to finally call it a night at 5 am.

Thanks Jen for the excellent tour!

Tweetcrawl Eggstravaganza!

The Strip Crawl was awesome, pretty much my ideal evening, actually - cheap & free booze and hanging out at my favorite places with a bunch of folks who love them as much or more than I do!

I had my festive ears on - I bought them at Hustler and the clerk seemed really disappointed that I was planning to wear them outside the bedroom.