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Stanley McHale is a single man rapidly approaching thirty who loves and dreams of the same things he did when he was seventeen. But the band was never formed, the novel never finished, and the ill-chosen career in stand-up comedy is giving him more headaches than headlines. With the self-imposed deadline of his thirtieth birthday to either make an international success of himself or go and work in Woolworths, why not pull yourself up ringside seats for the tragically inevitable descent into mania and psychosis by reading his increasingly inane, pedantic, desperate, harrowing and wretched daily diary. It'll make you feel a whole lot better about yourself.

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Tuesday 22nd November 2005

Posted by on November 22, 2005 8:51 PM | 

There are three distinct advantages of waking up in a hotel room chair. 1 – Your hair isn’t disturbed. 2 – You’ve not touched the bed itself so there’s less work for the chambermaid to do, which is considerate. 3 – You’ll doubtless be fully clothed and so you’re good to go.

I went to a bar I remember from my time here in May called The Lions Lair. We don’t really have dive bars in the UK which is a pity, they’re wonderful institutions. The term ‘dive bar’ doesn’t mean they are of low quality, it means you can go there and loose your inhibitions and drink cheaply. The few dive bars I’ve visited in the U.S. are friendly places and very welcoming too, not at all threatening.

I was only in The Lions Lair an hour before a familiar face walked through the door. Troy Baxley is a comedian I met on my last visit and we settled down to an afternoon of heavy boozing, moving on eventually, and inevitably, to Tiki Boyd’s – the scene of last night’s antics.

Tonight though was even crazier. I got drunker than I’ve been in many months and have absolutely no idea how I got back to Jennifer’s, but I did.

I have to warn you that the Blog entries written here will rather boringly and monotonously be about drinking. This is going to be the heaviest week of my life thus far in all probability. I’m aware that it’s very dull to read about someone getting drunk when you’re not drunk yourself but all I can do is relate what I’m up to and so far on this excursion all I’ve been doing is catching up with people and tippling.

I brought out several copies of my film, Things To Do In Denver When You’re Drunk, and so far the response has been really positive, people seem to like it a lot which is encouraging and flattering. I think there’s definitely a future for it.

Work wise though I’ve not done anything since being here and so need to take the time to concentrate on the book and get the stand-up set written. In fact it’s absolutely ESSENTIAL I get the stand-up set written whilst I’m here because I need to learn it before performing the new stuff on the 2nd of next month.

Indeed, I’m going to get to work on that right now – excuse the short entry.

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