Tour Schedule

Venue Location Time Date
Snickerz Comedy Bar Ft. Wayne, IN 8:00PM September  1-3, 2011
Comedy night @ Indianwood Lake Orion, MI 8:00PM September 10, 2011
Awful Arthurs Blacksburg, VA 8:00PM September 14, 2011
Sharkey”s Radford, VA 8:00PM September 15, 2011
Tipsy Mcstaggers Warren, MI 9:30PM September 17, 2011
Laugh-N-Bowl@ Bowling IQ Sterling Heights, MI 8:00PM September 24, 2011
Crazy Horse Saloon Rockford, MI 8:00PM October 13, 2011
Comedy Night@ VFW St. Clair Shores, MI 8:00PM October 15, 2011
Comedy night@Boomer’s Memphis, MI 9:00PM October 21, 2011
Laffs Express Conneaut, OH 8:00PM October 22, 2011
Jeremiah Bullfrog’s Topeka, KS 9:00PM October 28-29, 2011
Portifino’s Wyandotte, MI 8:00PM November 12, 2011
Monte’s Mt. Clemens, MI 8:00PM November 19, 2011
The Village Theater (Laughter on the Night After)
Canton, MI 8:00PM November 25, 2011
Scooter’s Bar and Grill Flint, MI 8:00PM November 30, 2011
Mansfield College Mansfield, PA 8:00PM December 1, 2011
Holiday party for RBC Money Management Group Tecumseh, Ontario 8:30PM December 9, 2011
The Roma Club ( private party) Leamington, Ontario 8:00PM December 10, 2011
Holiday party for SCS Corp. Clinton Township, MI 8:00PM December 16, 2011
The Holly Hotel Holly, MI 8:00PM December 23, 30, 2011
New Year’s Eve@ Pampa’s Warren, MI 7:30PM December 31, 2011
Comedy Night@Holiday Inn Spring Lake, MI 8:00PM January 5, 2012
Holiday Party for Greenstone financial Manchester, MI 8:00PM January 7, 2012
Ask Dr. Nandi ( TV show audience warm-up) Wixom, MI 10:00AM January 14, 2012
Big League Comedy Club London, ON 10:00PM January 14, 2012
Private party Detroit, MI 7:00PM January 28, 2012
Genesee Gardens Flint, MI 7:00PM February 1, 2012
Strive to Survive Tour@The Fillmore Detroit, MI 8:00PM February 11, 2012
The Kingfish Bay City, MI 8:00PM February 12, 2012
Connxtions Comedy Club Toledo, OH 8:00PM February 16,17, 2012
American Spirit Centre Brighton, MI 7:00PM February 18, 2012
Blue Mountain Resort Collingwood, Ontario 9:30PM February 24, 2012
Casablanca Casino and Resort Mesquite, NV 8:00PM March 9, 2012
Edgewater Casino and Resort Laughlin, NV 8:00PM March 10,11, 2012
The Plaza Hotel Las Vegas, NV 8:00PM March 12, 2012
Uccello’s Wayland, MI 9:00PM March 15, 2012
Holly Meadows Golf Course Capac, MI 8:00PM March 31, 2012
The Watershed Tavern and Grill Haslett, MI 8:00PM April 14, 2012
The Wildcat Special Delphos, OH 7:00PM April 21, 2012
The Funny Bone Columbus, OH 7:30PM May 3, 2012
Comedy night@ Otie’s Otisville, MI 8:00PM May 5, 2012
The Underwood Orr Baseball fundraiser Tecumseh, MI 7:00PM May 12, 2012
The Holly Hotel Holly, MI 8:00PM May 25-26, 2012
Alexander J’s Smokehouse Flint, MI 8:30PM May 27, 2012
Soaring Eagle Casino Mt. Pleasant, MI 8:00PM May 31, 2012
private party Novi, MI 6:00PM August 4, 2012
Block Party Irish Hills, MI 7:00PM August 11, 2012
American Legion fundraiser Climax, MI 7:00PM September 9, 2012
SEMPPES meeting/show Dearborn, MI 7:00PM September 20, 2012
Bryan Fire Department Banquet Bryan, OH 7:00PM October 20, 2012

Global warming

There has been and continues to be frenzied discussion over the issue of global warming. The shrill voices of the environmentalist fringe have successfully prodded the governments of the world into action. And, like most undertakings of government, the results are mis-guided and will probably cause far more harm than good.

First, if we believe that the planet is heating up, ( here in Michigan we’ve had an unusually severe and cold winter) we are then oblidged to figure out why. Why? Because that’s human nature just as denial of the facts once we arrive at them.

Scientists believe that holes in the ozone layer are a recent and man-make development that accounts for the increase in wordwide temperature.

Historically speaking, however, scientists acknowledge that the Earth has undergone several cycles of heating and cooling over the millenia, accounting perhaps for the extinction of the dinasaurs as well as many other animal and plant species.

It may just be that our timing is bad. The party may be over. Its time to go into the spare bedroom, sort through all the coats on the bed and go home.

Now, I’ve considered other possible causes for the warming of the planet. Think about this, every human being on the planet has a body temperature nearly 100 degrees. If you’ve ever been at a wedding reception at a hall in January in Michigan, you’ll know that by midnight the doors of the place will be propped open because of the heat generated in the room.

The Earth’s population continues to skyrocket as well as the humanized areas where we live. Large cities with expansive concrete and asphalt surfaces capture heat throughout the daylight hours and hold onto it through the night.

That’s why when you hear weather reports, the temperature is always at least a few degrees higher in the city. Add to this the high concentration of people, you have the recipe for global warming.

When I was a kid, my mom told me to wear a hat when I went outside in the winter. She said that you lose most of your body heat through the top of your head when you don’t have a hat on.

Now think about this, there are 2 billion people in China and almost none of them are wearing a hat!

Thanks for playing along…

Billy Ray

My birthday (WTF?)

Well, today is my birthday.  I’m 52. Now they can’t say I’m not playing with a full deck.

Its the full dick you can’t play with at my age unless you go running for the shelter of daddy’s little helper.

But be careful, erections lasting more than 4 hours are a serious health risk and should be seen by a medical professional.

That’s bullshit. A 4 hour erection will not hurt me. Hell, from the age of 14 until I was 28, I had an erection.

Now I wake up in the morning and every bone in my body is stiff except for the one my wife was hoping for.

A 4 hour erection I can live with but if I end up sitting in a bath tub out in the yard, I might have to give up the Viagra.

My wife will soon be 50. She’s worried about osteoporosis. She mentioned seeing a commercial on TV. Sally Field was selling something called “Boniva”.

They must be running out of good names for these drugs. Boniva sounds like something you might want to do on a Saturday night. I’m going to bone Eva tonight but first I have to “Cialis”…..

Thanks for playing along……

Billy Ray

WTF? WTF?

WTF?

What does UAW stand for? U Ain’t Working!

I’m gonna be 52 in a few days and I was thinking about the good old days. The neighborhood I grew up in near 8 mile and Gratiot was just like most people’s in the Detroit area, working class and working for the auto industry.

Unlike all the other dads in my neighborhood, my dad didn’t work for the auto companies. He had , at one point, been a supervisor at Dodge Main, but hated the prisonlike feel of the place. He went to R.E.T.S. and learned radio and TV repair.
And, even though we weren’t a part of the car business, we had uncles and cousins and friends in the business. My brother, Dave once did part time work at Dodge Main cleaning the massive smoke stacks, earning money to go to Wayne State.

I remember the bad times in the auto industry, layoffs, strikes, and the constant tension between management and labor. But, when times were good, a working class family could have a good life. Not rich, but getting ahead with the expectation that we would inherit an even better standard of living.

But, as the seventies ended, the competition from the Japanese killed the American consumer electronics industry and foretold of the other industries to fall victim to foreign competition.  Companies like Zenith and RCA, who once owned the market , now were bought out by foreign interests. New names came onto the store displays; Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Mitsubishi.

A lot of people do not know that JVC stands for Japanese Victor Corporation, a company set up by RCA/Victor after the Second World War in an effort to help the defeated Japanese rebuild their broken economy.

Ironic, yes, that the very people we helped back into the world economy were able to wrest the mantle of industrial dominance from us because we just couldn’t see what the negative potential outcome of our country’s generosity and  compassion would be.

Now today we face the very clear danger of losing another of the industries that has employed thousands and helped us defeat the enemy not long ago.

I wonder if Senator Richard Shelby thinks Hyundai will build tanks for us when we are attacked again. Oh, that’s right, we can have the 10-20 million illegal aliens living in our country build them, that’s if they are through cleaning Sen. Shelby’s pool.

BRB

WTF?

I just found out that my Yahoo hosted website has been shut down by the cybernetic lifeforces of the a fore-mentioned internet entity. I do not say people at Yahoo as I’m not really sure there are any.

First the story. In January my wife noticed that Yahoo had billed me twice for web hosting services. We tried to call  Yahoo’s billing department but each time the call wait was over an hour so we e-mailed them and received a prepared response from someone or something at Yahoo that did not address the problem.

So, my wife contacted our charge card company and had the second charge removed. It was then that the dark forces of Yahoo descended upon my website, snuffing out all vestiges of its once peaceful existence. All its charm and personality, not to mention, 15 cartoons I had drawn that existed nowhere but on the website, parished in the hostile shutdown.

Subsequently, I called Yahoo and waited one hour and forty minutes for a live person to pick up the call. Unfortunately during the wait, Yahoo played selected Kenny G tracks, which only served as kindling for my already overheated temper.

The live person who did speak perfect english with no discernable accent was apparently but a lowly pawn of the vast, dark empire known as Yahoo Webhosting.

He dogmatically barked out the company’s policies regarding credit card disputes and seemed to take sadistic pleasure at my growing anger. Only then did I realize that this dark empire, this alien lifeform was feeding on my rage just like that thing in the Star Trek episode.

Now today I received an e-mail from Yahoo. It was a customer survey asking for feedback on my customer service experience. Apparently, the dark empire is of two minds and each is unaware of the day to day existence  of the other. First Hyde, now Dr. Jeckyl. Each toying with me in their own way.

So, to make a long story short, you must now come here to Myspace for information about my whereabouts and to view video clips of my other marginally sane rants.

Thanks for playing along…

BRB

zoloft and lipitor

peeing outdoors

ohio

the lower GI

women are superior

Categories

Archives

RSS Syndication