A Few Days Off

Updated July 25, 2025.

I took a few days off from writing. I wish I could say it was intentional, that I’d been working so hard lately that I just couldn’t possibly get through another day without taking a much-earned break.

But that would be a lie. The past two days were an accident.

But it’s not like I wasn’t doing other stuff.

Thursday I got a phone call from a comedy agent.

“Saturday,” he said, as if we had been in the middle of a conversation. “You free?”

“Saturday…Let me check.” I didn’t want to say I was available straight away. I wanted to feign some semblance of being someone who is constantly on the move, a mover, a shaker, someone who works so much and in so many places that, when asked whether he has plans two nights hence, he has to check his datebook “Yes, I’m free.”

“Great, you’re booked.” He hung up.

“Sounds great. Thanks!”

So Saturday night I hosted two comedy shows at Bananas Comedy Club, one of my favorite clubs in New Jersey. Dan Ahdoot headlined. Jordon Ferber featured. They were both hilarious.

None of this is germane to the story of why I didn’t post the past two nights, except it buys me time to think of a real excuse.

I don’t have one yet.