Sorry for not blogging much over the past few days– we’ve been busy travelling and designing a website or two and doing other non-comedy things. We are currently in Twentynine Palms, CA, home of a whopping Marine base. Tonight we (pictured above, outside the cinema on the base, are, clockwise from upper left, Traci Skene, Joe Lowers, Shane Keith and Brian McKim) will perform on that very base for a crowd that is hoped will number more than one thousand.
This afternoon, we were treated to a tour of the base by our gracious hosts and we’re relaxing a bit before tonight’s 7 PM call. The front page of the local paper (The Observation Post) teased the article on the front page of the Sports & Leisure section about Colin Quinn, Robert Kelly and Steve Byrne playing ten days in Iraq recently as part of the Bringing Up the Rear tour. Quinn, it says, has done four tours so far.
“A lot of people say to me, ‘Oh, my God, you’re going to Iraq? Be careful!’ Be careful? I’m surrounded by Marines; I’m safer than they are, back in the states!”
Last night, we were drinking in the Cactus Bar, a little watering hole on Adobe, a coupla miles from the entrance to the Marine base, and the bartender, Bill, proved to be quite a standup fan. (He was especially adept at yelling “Git ‘er done!” and mimicking Ron White saying “Drunk… in… pub-lick”)
We’re in the desert, but it’s rather chilly. And the recent rains have not only caused Death Valley to bloom, but the roadside between here and Vegas is covered with wildflowers as well.
We’re scheduled to depart out of Vegas late Thursday night for a redeye flight, but we’re going to try to blog in some detail between now and then.