Minding Your P’s and Q’s

Minding Your P’s and Q’s

On my way from last night’s awesome show in Morgan Hill (thanks, everybody up in the MH!) I was off to Monterey for this weekend’s shows at Planet Gemini. It’s only an hour-long drive, what could go wrong? Everything, if you are illiterate. I made...
NorCal Shows

NorCal Shows

Before I head off to South Africa, I’m squeezing in a week of shows in Northern California. Which is kind of the opposite of South Africa, I guess. Here’s where I’ll be: January 24, Danville, CA – Wild Vine Hideaway (8 pm) January 25, Gilroy,...
MLK

MLK

I am all for civil rights and equality. But chances are you’re getting enough of that talk today. So here’s a little non-preachy, but still MLK-related, tale on his day. After a show the other week, an audience member came up to talk. Seemed like a nice...
Death and Comedy

Death and Comedy

Forgive me for being so morbid. Most people do vanity Googling, but I enjoy dysfunctional vanity Googling. You can call it DVG, for short. I will combine my name and an additional search parameter of a grisly nature. Paul+Ogata+tumor is a good one; I totally forgot...
Shiny Objects

Shiny Objects

Another political season is upon us. I have come to the conclusion that they schedule this stuff around the Summer Olympics to keep us distracted from the raping and pillaging about to go down. I’ve always said they try to confuse us with shiny objects. Nothing...