Yesterday, I split out of work early to meet Kevin White, Mikey Manker and Adam Lough (reverse alphabetical order). We drove down to Springfield, MO to do the open mic at Sir Gregory's Laugh Castle or something. The drive down was awesome; Adam drove, Mikey had shotgun, Kevin and I sat in the back (left side, right side respectively). I don't know what all we talked about, but we stopped at a Flying J wherein I saw a video game called "Crap Land" for the X box. 15 bucks. I almost bought it, and I don't even HAVE an Xbox. Anyway, I got a 4-pack of red bull, a Skor bar and a American Classic tractor t-shrt for 10 bucks. In three weeks, you'll probably be able to get on at the Buckle...
We got to Sir Greg's and asked about the open mic and talked to a couple people, including (but not limited to): two Gregs, "Spoo" and "Spankmeister". Spankmeister was the MC of the evening, and also a radio host for Z106.7 KZRQ (I think). The Admiral went up, then Skippy the Kid, then Mikey, then myself (".Com") (<---somewhere along the roadtrip, we all got nicknames; well everyone but Mikey :( ). All of us did very well, but the Master of Shpank decided he had to comment on every single one of us. Which was pretty funny because 1) he wasn't, and 2) we were extremely funnier and more polished than the two Springfield open mic guys some young guy with braces and "Old Man Willie" (who did a bunch of "women should stay in the kitchen" "how about them queers" and such one-liners. Ahhh Novelty Acts... We also met Adam's mom, who was very cool and who let us crash at her place at the end of the night.
The Feature was Darrin Meyer, and he was also very much a one-liner comic, but the crowd seemed to like him, we didn't stick around for all of Dwight York (the headliner) because we had to meet one of Adam's friends at Buffalo Wild Wings and go to a place called "The Creek" (a bar where all the freshmen in Springfield go, apparently). At the Creek, we were as loud an obnoxious as you could expect and managed to irritate or at least comment on every body in there. I told some girl I was a hemophiliac right after I insulted her boyfriend to her face and told her I couldn't have him "jumping me in the parking lot, I could die". I think I used too many big words. Anyway we ended up getting some beer at a Brown Derby store and headed back to Adam's Mom's were we watched War Games with Matthew Broderick and fell asleep. The next day, we stopped and Lambert's Cafe (home of the throwed rolls) and then headed back home. It was an awesome trip; the four of us really gelled as a group and we're planning another trip. There's some talks of Arkansas and Louisville. It's going to be wild, I can't freakin' wait.
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