Well first of all, I did a video podcast for Comics on Comics. Basically there were 5 of us talking about comic books and comic book movies; that's the jist. And as much of a nerd as I am, I'm not into comic books. But I think I held my own with these guys.

One of the guys that was there created Wolverine; that was fucking cool!

So after that I went over to the Improv, had some dinner and was talking with some friends, when who should walk in...Adam Sandler! Then Allen Covert...Then Judd Apatow! Then Dane Cook! Then Damon Wayans!

It was a cavalcade of comedic coolness.

Dane and Adam went up right after each other and it was really cool.

I think Adam is preparing for a new movie about stand-up comedy; it's really cool.

Anyway, it just felt so amazing to be there and be a part of this night.

So I sent my DVD to be duplicated today. I'm so excited and relieved to have it done...of course I'll still be worried until I have the disk in my hands and will be able to make sure it came out alright.

I've been having trouble getting the actual footage to look good; but as of yesterday I think I solved it. I watched each disk (remember, there are 2 disks) and they both played really well. With the exception of one of the bonus tracks; it looks like shit and there's nothing could do about it. Sorry in advance. But the important content looked fine.

Again, I'm just praying that it duplicates just as well.

So today I uploaded 5 new clips from the DVD. Three stand up clips and two clips from the documentary. You can check them out on the Video Clips page.

I also set up a "pre-oreder" section of the Buy Stuff page.

I'm really proud of it and I hope you guys will like it.

Anyway, I'm tired so I'm calling it a night. Night all.

8/23/08
I gotta tell ya, a great night's sleep is the best thing, isn't it?

It took a little while for me fall asleep last night; my mind seemed to be on overdrive. Just couldn't shut it down. But once I did fall asleep, I slept for like 8 hours and it was wonderful. I didn't want to wake up.

Wow, that sounded morbid.

Anyway, the show last night was phenomenal. I'll be honest, I didn't think I was going to do well since I was on (literally) 3 hours of sleep. Coupled with that, I find out when I get there that I am the first comedian of the school year that they're bringing in, so I have to do well to make sure the students come to more campus activity programs.

No pressure.

So I get up there and right from the get-go, it was great. Those guys were great! At the end of the show, I got me a standing ovation!

I know!

I didn't even pander to the crowd to get it, they just stood up. Wow! Wow! Wow!

Nothing beats that feeling, and also puts everything in perspective.

Actually, on my new DVD, there's a clip of me getting a standing-o in Helsinki. I still remember that moment as well...probably because there were 1400 people standing. :)

Just moments like those make me really feel like I'm doing the right thing with my life. Not that I have too many doubts anymore, but it's still that reinforcment, ya know?

So now I'm sitting in the airport in Albany, waiting for my flight. It's going to be another day of traveling, but at least I'm doing it on a good night's sleep this time.

Airports always makes me feel a little weird. Can't explain it. Not weird in a bad way; just weird. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. For example, there's a little kid sitting next to be in the terminal who's yelling; that's a bad weird. But then, there's a couple holding hands and kissing; that's a good weird.

I mean I'm in a room surrounded by different people, living different lives, going to different places, for different reasons. It's really one of the only places where you can sit and be surrounded by different experiences happening all at once. And you can observe them.

Kind of like a people zoo.

I guess since my job is to take different aspects of society and talk about it, I'm more aware of people and their behaviors.

Even though my act isn't quite a brilliant commentary of social behaviors, I still think of myself as an astute observer.

I like seeing older people and younger people sitting next to each other. You can kind of see the younger people looking at the old people and thinking, "Wow, they're old. I'm never going to be that old", and the old people looking at the young people thinking, "Was I ever that young?"

I remember things about being younger, but it does feel like I was such a different person. I mean I was a different person when it comes to how I think of myself and how I carry myself. But I mean literally, a different person. It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't doing comedy.

This year will mark my 16th anniversary of doing comedy, and my 11th anniversary of being a "full-time comedian". By full-time, I mean I haven't had "a real job" in 11 years. Before that I had day jobs and was only doing comedy as ametuer; an open-miker. So for almost half of my life, I've been doing comedy, and now it's hard to remember my life before it.

Do you guys feel that way? Maybe not about your job, but let's say you've been married for so long that you forget what it's like to be single (it sucks by the way) or maybe you have kids and forgot what it's like to have a life. Ha-ha-ha...kidding.

Oy, I'm rambling.

Well, I think I'm going to watch a movie while I'm waiting, so I bid you all adeau...and a don't.

That was stupid. See ya back on the west coast.

8/22/08
Didja see it? Didja? Didja? Didja????

What am I talking about? You silly goose, I'm talking about my appearance on The Gong Show last night. I was really thrilled with the way it turned out. They edited it well and even kept in some of the banter I had with Dave Attell and Andy Dick.

What!? You missed it!? Well, because I'm such a great guy, I'll put it right here:

Not bad, huh? And when you're done with that, watch this little interview the did with "us".

Anyway, I'm at the airport...yes, again. I'm flying to Albany, driving to Cobleskill where I have a show at a college. Then I fly back to LA tomorrow.

Right now it's 6:15 am; I've been up since 4:15 and I didn't fall asleep until 1:30 or so. Fun, no? No. But doing comedy is fun, so that's why I bust my ass on two hours of sleep.

Oh well. We're going to be boarding in a few minutes, so I'm going to get going. See ya!

8/18/08
I hate flight delays, don't you? I'm sitting here in Vegas waiting for my flight back to LA...and low & behold, it's delayed an hour. And I got here 2 hours early; oy.

Just a sidenote, I was just on facebook, chatting with someone from Scandinavia, and then asked if this was the "real Flip" or just someone pretending to be me. Who the fuck would want to pretend to be me? That's so funny.

Anyway, so I'm bored and just killing time. God bless free airport wireless.

I'm feeling a bit...oh, what's the word?...concerned right now. Something is going on in my life and it's not a big thing (at least I hope not), but for some stupid reason, I'm making it out to be a big thing. I need to learn to fix that about myself.

A big problem of mine is that I can be very impatient; very much Veruca Salt. Not the band, but the character from Willy Wonka.... You know, "I want it now!" So because this thing that I'd like hasn't happened yet, it's affecting me so much.

But I guess the trick is to know that you can't rush things; that things will happen if and when they're supposed to happen.

Just keep reminding myself that.

I'm also kinda stressing about my new DVD. I want to have them all done and ready in time for my trip to Finland...which is in less than a month! Where does the time go, huh? The DVD is done as far as editing...it's just that the quality of the video is a little sketchy; I think it has something to do with the program I'm using to export it. I need to work on that.

And the graphics still need to be done. Hey, when life isn't stressful, it's boring, right? Right.

Well, I'm going to get some coffee....an hour and a half and counting...oy.

Viva Las Vegas...just not the airport.

8/17/08
Greetings from Vegas everyone. What a fun weekend I just had.

For those who don't follow my blog...are there such people...I got a side job writing for Terry Fator. I've pretty been writing jokes from my apartment, and they've been used and I've gotten paid. Well this weekend they flew me and two other writers (Matt Vogl and Todd Jordan) into Vegas to watch Terry's show and write some more...and it was so much fucking fun!

First of all, Terry's a great guy. Just so cool and down to earth, and completely focused on this show and his fans. He's really an inspiration as far as how he got his big break and as a showman, he's second to none. His show, by the way, FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC! Just unbelievable.

Anyway, we all spend the past two days watching and writing and just laughing. OH, and get this, yesterday Fred Willard came onstage and did a quick bit with him...and we all helped write the bit with Fred! That was one of the coolest things I've ever got to do.

So today we all pitched ideas for Terry and he liked a lot of them...without patting myself on the back too hard; he liked all of my ideas. :) OK, ego moment over. So tonight he tried about 10 jokes that we pitched and they all worked! All of them! How fucking great is that?

This is such a fun job. I mean I am getting paid to write jokes; not just to write them, but to watch a great show and write them.

I know I've done this for Pablo, Jamie and Dana...but this is a completely different animal. This is a ventriloquist and one of the biggest new acts of Vegas. And son of a bitch, he's using my jokes and they're working!

My journey in life is going in such a wonderful direction now. I'm walking down paths that I could never forsee myself walking down.

I'm always going to be a performer; always. I love it, period. As a matter of fact, they wanted us to be here for his next round of shows next month, but they start at the same time as my tour of Finland. And of course I'm not going to cancel that...hehehe.

But as I was saying, creatively my life and career are reaching places that I didn't know they ever would or could. And what makes me really giddy (yes, I said giddy) is that so many great actors and comics started as (or started to get famous) as writers. Who knows where this could lead to?

And as I said already, it's a great challenge to write jokes in a Vegas show format as opposed to stand up.

I'm really beaming right now...just picture me smiling broadly. Ya got it? Good.

Oh, fyi, I will be on The Gong Show this Thursday, Aug. 21. Set the Tivos...I'd say "set the VCRs", but let's be honest; it's not 1998 anymore, now is it?

OK kids, I'm off to lose some money to the casino...no, let's be positive...I'm going to donate some money to the casino.

Much better.

PS-Happy birthday to my friend David (who's also here in Vegas) and a shout out to Clay and Janna Jackson...happy now? ;)

8/12/08
Oh boy, I'm dragging such ass today. It's 11:30 am and I'm still lying in bed. I wasn't feeling that well last night and I'm still a little "yech" today.

Despite feeling like shit last night the character show well really well; better than I thought it would actually. We had almost 70 people there, which for a Tuesday late night show, is great. Especially since it was a first time show.

Every act was great, and without hurting myself to pat me on the back, a lot of people said the line-up was really fantastic. Do I know my comedy or what?

Other big news is that the DVD editing is done! Yes, done! All I'm doing now is tweaking some of the other video parts and making the graphics for the DVD case. But I'm really proud of the way it turned out.

The stand-up DVD has a 50 minute show, plus a 15 minute set of Skippy Greene, the music video for a Skippy Greene song, the short film "No Country for Autobots", (hopefully) a clip of one of my newer jokes and the video from my second time EVER doing stand up. Oh yeah, that one is special.

The the other DVD has the documentary about my Europe tour, plus some other little extras.

I'm just throwing out content on this thing...why? Because I love you guys. :)

That's really been my life as of late; editing and performing. It's been boring really. I'm such a perfectionist, but I'll be glad when all of this is done. I need to move on.

This weekend I'm going to Vegas to do some more writing work for Terry Fator. Should be a blast. Then I'm going to start to do some more touring; including my return to Finland! That is going to be amazing.

Well campers, I'm getting hungry which means I should get my lazy ass out of bed and fix me something good to eat.

Hope you guys are smiling.

8/9/08
Waaay into August and not one blog; for shame Flip...for shame.

The reason is a mixture of being busy and being lazy...mostly lazy. But busy as well.

I've been editing the final touches to the new DVD. Incidentally, the names have changed again. The DVD itself will be called, "Gettin'em on the Chain", and the documentary is called, "Making It Up As I Go Along"...I think it's a better choice. Anyway, I'm hoping to have them all done and produced by the time I go to Finland in a month.

I've also been editing the music video for "Man About Town"; the Skippy Greene song. The video is pretty much done, we just need to do some over dubbing on the dialouge.

Aside from that I've just been doing some spots around town. Last night I did Skippy at the Improv and it did as well. I recently did Skippy at the Comedy Store for the first time; that was cool. I felt really special there because that's where Andy Kaufman would do a lot of his stuff, including Tony Clifton.

I'm doing my own character show this Tuesday at the Improv, you want a 2 for 1 admission, click away: 2 FOR 1 JEWPON. I'm getting nervous; I don't know how many people are going to be there. I hope there's a fair amount since we've got such a great line-up.

I always hate being in charge of anything; too much pressure. Well, I take that back. I don't like being in charge of something that requires people to show up. Seriously. Like I usually don't like throwing a party because there's pressure for people to show up. I actually remember when I was in college and I offered to use the pool at my parents' development for the wrap party for a play. I got the pool, oredered like 10 pizzas...and NO ONE showed up. I felt so embarrassed. I mean seriously, no one!? And only one person called to say they weren't going to show up. RSVP does not stand for: Ruin Several Very nice Pizzas.

OK, I might've stretched a bit on that one.

Anyway, I just hope that people show up to my show, that's it.

I'm dragging ass right now, I need to get out of bed. Oh yeah, I'm still in bed cause I had a late night last night.

Motivation time...

"MOVE YOU LAZY FUCK! MOVE IT! MOVE IT! MOVE IT!"

OK, I'm up! See ya later.

Oh yeah, Aug. 21, Comedy Central, 10:00, "The Gong Show"....ME!