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Off to the Red Cross to give blood, then to a movie. I find the two exercises go quite well together.*
*The painting is The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, 1875. It’s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but I don’t think it’s currently on display. If you ever get the chance, you should really go see it in person. It’s eight feet high and six-and-a-half feet wide. Actually it’s better than most movies.
People want to know what a wits show is like. It’s like this.
Also, I continue my inevitable descent into resembling Robert Fulghum.
This man, here. This spruce, natty, urbane raconteur. The man who has returned verve to the mustache.
This woman here. This ageless chanteuse with the timeless voice, this embodiment of class with a guitar in hand.
Corbett and I get to share the stage with them tomorrow night, for Wits. And with perhaps the funniest man on public radio, John Moe. And with the brilliant Joseph Scrimshaw. And with the Witnesses Band, John Munson, Steve Roehm, Joe Savage, and the dulcet Janey Winterbauer.
Come Join us, or listen. Either way It’s gonna be a damn fine Friday.
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Join me, won't we?: Avenge MEEEEEE! -
Thank you, Michael J. Nelson, for helping me to laugh through the pain of even thinking about THE AVENGERS.
If you’re a guy who had a small speaking role in the 1998 Ralph Fiennes’ “The Avengers”, which was one of the worst movies ever made, but still it was how you picked up chicks at parties, today must be a depressing and confusing one:
“I was in the Avengers…”
“What?! No, way! That movie made…
Welcome to John Moe’s Evil Radio Headquarters, from whence he means to rule the world.
for next week’s show, Paul F.Tompkins and Aimee Mann will join Moe’s cohort.
Moe is becoming unstoppable. As the might of Wits grows, no radio is safe.
“Run for cover. Run and hide.” - Sinatra
“There. See?”
This blurry photo of the incomparable Wits house band, The Witnesses, is to remind you that if you can’t come to tonight’s show at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, you can stream the show AS IT OCCURS IN TIME at the MPR Wits page. Please join us at 8PM Central because Andy Richter and Reggie Watts are the guests, and the laughter will help you digest dinner.
Oh, and the band? From left to right, John Moe, Joe Savage, Steve Roehm.