• The show was advertised as starting at 8. And, technically, it does — but the advertised band doesn’t come on at 8. No, there are three — three — unadvertised bands that come on first. Which means that the band I came to see will come on… some time this week. So that’s why I’m now sitting in the far back of this club ignoring a couple of pretty ignorable opening acts and posting this.
• Today’s LA Times had only two front-page stories that dealt with Donald Trump. They better pick up the pace over there. Bernie Sanders got some sort of write up on about page 20. I don’t know why they couldn’t have given that space to Trump. C’mon, guys, get with it.
• I’ve been traveling so much, and keeping such odd hours, that today I took three naps. I guess my body (or psyche) finally threw in the towel. Me, to my wife: “I’m going to take a nap.” Her, incredulously: “You just took a nap!” Me: “Guhhh…” and moving off to the writing room to take a nap there.
• Mystery solved: Comics friends on Facebook are wondering why the new Captain America movie has done so much better than the Batman vs. Superman movie. Simple: the latter was no fun.
• Speaking of travel — I’ve recently been in Baltimore, DC, San Diego, the SF Bay Area (San Jose, Santa Clara and Redwood City (birthplace of playwright Trey Nichols)), then back to San Diego, and Las Vegas next week. And then…  nowhere for a little while. But you know what platform I really really wish a serious presidential contender would run on? Infrastructure. To take California alone, the roadways are worse than the jungle trails in an Indiana Jones movie. In the past week, I’ve been on the 101, the 110,  the 210, the 134, the 2, the 5, the 605, and for all I know every other possible combination of numbers, and I’ve just about dropped a transmission in each of them.
• Hey, the name act — Modern English — comes on in just another hour. (11 p.m.) Excitement mounts.

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