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Traci Skene's Christmas tree

If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. In the newest “Keep It Tight” from Traci Skene, she uses the calendar to look forward… and look back.

To make matters worse, New Year’s Eve in 2004 fell on the following Friday. Ideally, comics prefer a Tuesday or Wednesday New Year’s Eve. This way you make semi-big bucks mid-week, but can still do a regular comedy show on the following weekend. By having a Friday night New Year’s Eve, we lost a lucrative weekday gig plus we couldn’t do a show on Saturday night because it was New Year’s Day. Which meant a guaranteed slow week for any comic who wasn’t either working at a resort or performing at one of the many “Chinese Who Want Nothing To Do With The Gregorian Calendar” shows. And no, I’ve never pretended to be Asian. But I did marry a man who’s last name is McKim which, when spelled “MC Kim” sort of makes him sound like a Korean rapper.

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