Lockdown

Dad wrote me a letter dated October 24, 2006. The prison is in lockdown for a week. This means sack lunches, cell shakedowns and strip searches. Regarding the latter, Dad writes:

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday) we will go to Gym for searching everything and did you know that we have to remove clothes off and searches head to toes. And we have bending down and pull butts open and show officers our anuses (asshole) no joking. I wish I could farts to officers faces. Ha.

Yeesh. Thanks for the mental picture, Dad! And don't go farting in their faces, either. I have to face these guys during our next visit and it's already awkward enough knowing that they know what your butthole (anus) looks like!

Blogger has been a real punk lately. I've lost a few entries and have been unable publish stuff on my calendar and index pages. It's especially annoying since I don't have time to waste on crap like that. Argh!

Quick Dad update, I haven't heard from him in a while. Around the time of the last entry and in response to his letter, I sent him $50 and renewed his USA Today subscription for a year so I'm guessing he's busy reading and gambling on football. I just sent an additional $40 yesterday so he should have plenty to re-pay Mr. Heard (his cellie), buy new thermals and have plenty leftover to play on the grids every week. I hope his luck is better than last year when he ended up owing a bunch of inmates. I want him to enjoy some strawberry ice cream and oatmeal pies, not rack up a gambling debt!

OCTOBER 30, 2006 - KAMBRI CREWS READS FROM LOVE, DADDY AT A SPECIAL YANKEE POT ROAST / DRINK AT WORK SHOW

Once again, Drink at Work is teaming up with literary malefactors Yankee Pot Roast to bring you a night of short comic readings, booze, an unhealthy Bea Arthur fixation and another awesome performance by local sketch heroes (and finalists in The Great Sketch Experiment) Elephant Larry!

I will read from Love, Daddy which centers around my correspondence with my Deaf mute father who is serving 20 years for the attempted murder of his third wife. The excerpt I will read incorporates sign language and documents my trip to Huntsville, Texas to visit my dad for the first time since his imprisonment..

Drink at Work's Carol Hartsell and Yankee Pot Roast's Geoff Wolinetz host an evening of urbane, cultivated literary hilarity.

Monday, October 30, 2006
Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones Street
New York, NY
8:00 PM - $5.00

Scehduled to read/perform:
Sean Crespo (FUSE, Office Pirates, National Lampoon)
Kambri Crews (Love Daddy, Comedy Central Insider)
Eric Gillin (Esquire Editor, BlackTable.com co-founder)
Wayne Gladstone (Yankee Pot Roast, Cracked)
Carol Hartsell (Drink at Work.com)
Jack Kukoda (Kukoda.com, Yankee Pot Roast)
Francesco Marciuliano (Sally Forth, Medium Large)
Mick Stingley (Hollywood Reporter and Metal Edge)
Todd Levin (Tremble.com, The Morning News, Salon)

Plus, a performance by sketch group Elephant Larry

In celebration of the coming of the Great Pumpkin there will be a costume contest and everyone is invited to participate. The winner will receive a Bea Arthur t-shirt from Yankee Pot Roast and a flask plus drink tickets from Drink at Work!