If You Think You Should Come To California

I would have missed him if my alarm hadn't gone all funky. The CD I burnt a long time ago that was sitting in my alarm to wake me has been skipping and then dying all week. I usually just wake up, but this morning I was so tired that when the CD player stopped I just went back to sleep. Once I woke up I was in a terrible chaotic mess trying to get to work, and I was too stressed/tired to listen to my normal station, NPR. Once I plopped it onto the Edge (The lame-o Alternative station out here) Adam Corolla's voice came on and I might have changed it except for he said Arizona comedian, yes I admit I still have some geographical ties to this sand pile, so I listened. All without invitation, he drove all the way out to LA (6 hours) to be on the Adam Corolla show. It was completely randomly and beautifully desperate . Much like the movie Joe Dirt. He wasn't insanely funny, but his story more than made up. Interesting fellow, kind of funny, serious story. I think all of my hopes and dreams of exiting this sad sun stained city were all sitting in his awkward nervous jokes. I laughed a few times. He isn't a genius, but he's a genius by Phoenix entertainer standards.