Since taking a break from performing, I’ve noticed that I have inadvertently changed quite a few of my behaviors.  I am no longer:

1.  Obsessively, COMPULSIVELY, CONstantly checking my Gmail, faceboook, andoccasionallyMySpace.

2.  Drinking coffee every morning.

3.  Drinking alcohol every night.

AND YET I’M STILL FUNCTIONING!  All these little rituals that grew to habits that grew to dependencies and bordered on addiction are more or less fading away – and I’m still OKAAAAAAY!!!

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PARTY IN MY TUMMY!!!  YUMMY YUMMY!!!  I’m a little worried for those carrots and green beans though – they’ve been brainwashed!.  It’s a little Logan’s Run.  They want to join the party, but do they know they’re begging to meet their own death by stomach acid?!  Also, they are floating IN their friend, Juice.  That’s just plain weird.

Also, I am somewhat confused by how this song/video could remind someone of ME, but I TOTALLY AGREE!  I can’t put my finger on it, but yeah…I like this kooky song, hehe.  It’s totally my sense of humor – really ironic, with supercute stuff playing out a totally morbid scenario.  Kind of like Kawaii Not:

This ax is just doing its job!

If you “get” that, you must check out Kawaii Not.  I first came across the Kawaii Not book a few months ago at Urban Outfitters.  It’s basically a bunch of cutie pie Japanese-inspired cartoons of inanimate objects saying/doing very un-cute things.  In fact, there is a Japanese trend called grotesque-cute.  OK, the Japanese are weird, but I must admit my favorite part of the Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum was a 20-minute cartoon about poop. Did I appreciate it because I’m an art lover and I liked it ironically?  Or did I just laugh because I’m immature and like poop jokes?

I read somewhere recently that irony is OUT and innocence/naivete is in – a side effect of “Yes We Did”.

Hope is no longer uncool.

It seems like for a long long while, a majority of people – especially New Yorkers -have  prided themselves on being “snarky” and calling anyone NOT included in their social circle a “douchebag”.  Irony, cynicism, criticism.  Just another badge on the snark cadet uniform.  (And yes, I mostly hang out with snarky comedians, but I’m actually talking mainly about non-comedians who think anything sarcastic counts as witty.)

Now that history’s been made and our country’s new mantras are “hope” and “change”, does the liberal media and the comedians who supported Obama  have to shut up  and try very hard not to make fun of the government it helped elect?  Hmmm…it’s tricky.  Is that flip gonna happen, or will there always be vultures no matter what the meat?  Who’s gonna touch an Obama impersonation on SNL?  What was once ironical and satirical could now be hypocritical (depending on how – and by whom – it’s done).

Oh, yes it does!

Right now, I will appreciate the fact that little kids laugh at “Party in My Tummy” because it’s silly (though some part of them must realize that it’s morose), while I laugh at it because it’s morose (though some part of me must realize that it’s silly).

WTF?!

Yeah, this is a children’s show on Nickelodeon – WHAT?!?!  Really weird!  But also really cool!

The show was created by Christian Jacobs from the ska band The Aquabats!

There's Christian Jacobs up front as The MC Bat Commander!

This is a crazy ass kids show, but it’s completely awesome!  It’s like the new H.R. Pufnstuf.

Another trippy kid's show.

It’s like a kid’s show + a Deelite video with cool guests like Biz Markie and Rhys Darby AND Elijah Wood!  In fact, here is a hi-LAR-ious video that someone put together, mashing up the Numa Numa song with the puppet dance sequence that he performed on Yo Gabba Gabba!  Enjoy:

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Holy shit, I could watch that for days!

A lot of kids’ shows are really pandering ( to kids, hello…everything is pandering), but this is some damn hip entertainment!  It’s a family version of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Good Job! with all the surrealism and kookiness.  I appreciate the heck outta this thing!

A pink flower thingy, a yellow robot, a blob of green mold, a blue cat thingy and a dildo-looking cyclops dance around - hosted by a nerdy gay black DJ!

Wow, this is fucking AWESOME.

And look at this cool dance mat!

Yo Gabba Gabb! Hero!

This makes me long for the days of Zoobilee Zoo!

One of my favorite horror shows as a child!