i’m a turtle

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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Hi! Local comedian here! I can help field this.

    Every time I do a show, I go in with the intention of being funnier and more interesting than what people are scrolling through. Usually but not always, I succeed. What makes this challenging is that all my shows are in the same venue every single time, on a regular schedule, which means I have regular audience members. I can’t let them down, so I get really prolific really fast. More material than Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, and every other goddamn hack under the sun, at the same fucking time (good comics excepted—shoutouts to Randy Feltface, James Acaster, and more). Most of it gets tested in my corporate call center day job, which gets me decent CSAT ratings.

    Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I did comedy as a day job instead of a night job. Would I enjoy telling the exact same show to a lot of different venues? Fuck no. Wouldn’t laugh at my own shit half as much.






  • I’m a white disabled trans woman, and I’m fuckin’ staying. Although it’s only a matter of time before the federal ungovernment turns its attention to my city, Portland, to leave would be to give up my home, and the only place I have known for an incredibly long time.

    I will die eventually. That much is the only thing that’s true for me. My wave will move on to being just water somewhere else. Ideally, under peaceful circumstances. But it will happen here most likely.

    I have friends to defend and friends to help, and they need help here.