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 Eric Kirkland's Newsletter

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May 2007
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Greetings:
Welcome to my fifteenth Newsletter! Amazingly I'm actually only a few days off schedule this time!

Well ignore the above sentence. I started this newsletter in early April.  That was before I realized I needed to change servers for my web page. So now this is the May Newsletter.  I'm back to my regular schedule of about two months.

Check back to the website occasionally for updated schedules!

There will also be selected entries from my Blog, and updated show schedules.


From this blog entry

O.K.  That was stupid

So while I'm in St. Louis I decided it would be fun to have my wife and son come in so we could go up in the Arch.

Well we also decided to go to this place called The City Museum. Basically it's like Chuck E Cheese on steroids minus the pizza.

It's the ultimate playground and evidently the liability laws must be more lax in Missouri than in Ohio, the playground is basically a maze of tubes made from things like old airplane fuselages, cranes, open metal tubing, and just about anything else they could find.

It's hard to tell from this pictures the following few things.
 
1. This pipe is about 3 stories high.
2. The picture is far away enough to hide my fear.
3. A 38 inch waist is not made to go through a 36 inch pipe.
4. My wife laughing her ass off as she was taking these pictures.
5. I think she was laughing so hard that fortunately she didn't take the picture at the end when I had to actually manuever my body in some weird positions to turn around. You see half way across this 'curved' tube you realize. "Oh crap, I'll be going down face first at the end!"
 
 
I do kind of look like Spiderman though!
 
O.K. maybe if Spiderman was retarded...
 
 
Joke of the Month:

A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at an old drunken lady swigging her gin as she sits alone at a nearby table, until the wife asks,

"Do you know her?"

"Yes," sighs the husband, "She's my ex-wife. She took to drinking right after we divorced seven years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since."

"My God!" says the wife, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"


What I was going to do

I was going to use this space to try to come up with some deep sociological meaning of life.  However after spelling sociological correct the first time I was so happy that it passed the spell check that I forgot what I was going to do.

I thought about maybe having some powerful and moving prose on the state of politics in America.

However, I broke down and thought about the word broke and decided to use this space to advertise.

Make sure you visit my Geocoin selling site at www.usageocoins.com

If you don't know what  Geocoin is I'm not going to tell you.  I want you to go the website and buy some!  Maybe you will even become a member and join the mailing list so you can buy yours monthly!

 

A few samples. Yes, I do my own finger modeling.  I'm a multi-talented person.

 

 

Upcoming Shows
(schedule subject to change, visit my website)

May

Dates Club City For reservations call
3 Spring Lake Holiday Inn Spring Lake, MI 616-846-1000
4-5 Wisecrakers Merrillville, IN (219) 769-6311
18 Gables Nightclub Martinsburg, WV 304-229-2216
27 The Annual Kirkland Cookout (rescheduled for July 4th)

Recent Comics I've worked with:



Myself, Darryl Rhoades, and Kevin at Goonies in Rochester, MN.  Evidentally Darryl and I wanted to see who could look the coolest and both basically came off looking like dorks.
By the way, this has become one of my favorite clubs.  I had so much fun there.  Please contact Goonies and tell them you want Eric Kirkland back!
 

Kevin Naughton, The MC (whose name I forget, I'm really bad at that) from The Tree House Lounge in Bloomington, IL.

Jim Stout, myself, and Mark Knope at The Comedy Forum showing off three of the worst designs for facial hair in the business!
(that goofy looking guy in in back is the bartender, with that look you know he'll whip you up a good drink!)


Continuing the 'Bad Goatee and Facial Hair Tour' this is Wes from W3D Country in Carbondale, IL.  Wes is actually an American Indian.....who plays country music.....next to a black guy....... in a Russian Hockey Jersey.  Maybe that's why Mark Knope has the look of, "This is why my people suppressed you two over history, it was for your own good!"


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