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Listen - TJ hasn’t been back to claim his ticket. So Dwayne, if yer still interested send me your address. I read on another blog that you were told to hook Nigeria up with $25,000. Did you make that up!

Colleen, thanks for the Crispy Crunch’s. So sweet.

I’m back home for a bit and it’s all fallish and leave rakish at my house. I’m retreating from the road for a bit. I hope to do a show in NYC at Carolines in December with my old pal Bonnie Mcfarlane. I mean Bonnie Voss as she just got married. Bonnie and have known each other for years. It goes way back to our young years in Vancouver - when comedy was just a twinkle in our eyes.

Bonnie just married a comic called Rich Voss. They’re on the road, performing together. Together twenty four hours a day doing it comedian couple style. When they first got together Hedberg’s first response was “If they think they’re gonna out comedy -couple us…..they’ve got another thing comin’”.

Whenever Mitch and I hung with a person from my pre-Hedberg period he would observe me as I joked and gossiped and bantered. He would look at my eyes and see them light up with excitement or watch my mouth play with the happy sarcasm I share with old pals. He’d drink it in, frightened to taint it with too much input from himself.
“You’re really funny around girls” he’d say. “Have I taken you from everybody?”

When lovers work together and travel together as in comedians, so much time is spent…together. I remember saying “Is it healthy that we spend so much time together? Don’t the books say that couples are supposed be apart more”

“Do you like hanging with me?”

“Yeah. Totally”. I said

“Well then. Me too”.

I guess it’s that simple sometimes.

I’m in Milwaulkee. It’s overcast and damp out which means I get to watch TV and suck my thumb, guilt free. Also, I have been eating frozen custard all day. It’s all the rage here in WI.
So, TJ send me your address and I’ll hook you up with the lottery ticket. I feel bad about only having one ‘cos Doug ‘The Canoe Guy’ said ‘dang’ in his comment and all. Father, yours is on its way….. very soon.

Um…. the Milwaukee show was cool. Then we went to a bar called Woolsky’s and it was one of those ones that look like it’s in someone’s house. Kinda like Ireland, maybe. I’m reading Danny Bonaduce’s memoir and Geek Love. I miss my cabin - where I can sit down and write. Not this all over the place shit that I’m offering up right now.

One more thing. Leah, about the myspace thing. Isn’t it scary on there? My friend Doug Stanhope just got involved and he hasn’t talked to me since - he’s always on there. Is this true or is he just being all creepy and using ‘myspace’ as a front? Hmm….ha….please, lemme know!!!! Father, please send me a testemonial regarding ‘myspace’. I don’t want to give up my love of the outdoors and hamburgers just yet.

I also have a $10 winner from AZ. Lemme know if you want it. (Father?) I know it’s not much but…….it’s free.

It’s Travis Lipski NOT Travis Lapinski……..

Still on the road. Standing the Milwaukee Holiday Inn lobby. Its a rainin’ outside. There are free chocalate cookies at the front desk and I’m waiting until the staff turns away so I can filch several to give away to my pals. Ummmm…..the Detroit show……well…..um…they hated me. I ended up getting into a fight with a girl in the front row. It was crazy!!! I feel bad about getting into with her. After the show people were so sweet….”We’d like to apologize on behalf of Detroit”. You know you bombed when.

It’s cool. I gotta take like a man. Plus there’s some thing about swearing ito a microphone that hurts so good.

Thanks for the emails that some of you send me. I read ‘em all. I didn’t bring my computer on the road so I check my emails be using my phone (modern gal!) when I can.

Hedberg and I lived in hotels a lot. Loved ‘em. Once Mitch said to me “I’m glad I married a girl that will stay at a hotel a 1/2 hour from our house.” We did. It’s like you are on vacation when you stay in a hotel, you don’t have to open your mail. Last night was the ‘room service and movies’ kinda thang. Alone, food, on-demand. I watched Layer Cake. Daniel Craig is going to be the new Bond. Sweet.
I’m in a Holiday Inn. It’s cool - different hotels for different moods, I like to say.

One more thing. We’ve been driving across the country. One of my favourite things about this is getting to stop at all the truck stops. You grab a coffee. Some trail mix. Cigarettes, gas and sometimes t-shirts, licorice.

I like to get some scratch-and-win lottery tickets. Problem is I’ll sctratch them in the car and if I win, quite often we are already in another state. So, If you live in Oklahoma send me an email I’ll hook you up with a $10 winner. I only have this one so far.
M and I used to do this a lot when we toured and ended up giving them away on the plane otherwise I’d be holding on to the ticket forever.
I have learned to scratch them at the store - sometimes that method backfires. More than likely, one will use your winnings to get more tickets. I don’t play that game.

Have a great weekend. Lynn

I’ve been driving…..driven…..across the country to the Motor City - DETROIT!!! I’ll finish in a few….

Okay…..I’m performing ~
Thursday, October 20th
Emerald Theatre
Mt. Clemens, Michigan (near Detroit)
c’mon Windor - ites!!!

Yeah, when I get home, I’ll work on the t-shirts….lotsa ideas….I’ll be working on the girl shirt tip also. I do like t-shirts, so I can dig the shape and colour and cotton diversity…..if that makes sense!!!!

I’ll see, maybe, some of you at the show(s)!!

Show starts around 8pm, I think

With ~ Travis Lapinski, Brendon Walsh, DOUG STANHOPE

AND THE MATTOIDS PLAYING GREAT MUSIC.

See you there.

Also, Saturday October 22nd,
The Onopa Brewery
Miwalkee, WI

It’s a full moon and I think a loaf of bread has gone missing.
Thanks for all your comments and emails. Still, I know there are concert stories in each and every one of you. No hurry. And you don’t have to or anything.
Have a cool weekend. My hair is messy.

I think I will re-release this shirt. We only had a small # made and Mitch loved it.

Okay. this is for real. I just came home from the grocery store. I had gone with the purpose of purchasing yogurt. I fancy myself a bit of a parfait maker/eater. Like the ones from McDonald’s; but better. I Somehow I arrived home with new boots and a new pair of shoes, but that’s another issue all together.

So I get home, move around a bit. Put away some groceries. Stand in front of the TV. Put some new barrettes in my hair. All the while I’m eating out of a bag of dried cherries and dried cranberries. All of a sudden - THEY ARE MISSING. What’s going on? First the fried chicken this morning (see below) now dried fruit. I swear ~I’ve looked everywhere.
What is this crazy “Food disappears into thin air!” diet I’m on, you ask? It’s what I like to call - The Mountain Confusion/Things are Getting Messy Around Here diet plan. Your food apparently vanishes into thin air and if or when you find it - it’s gross ‘cos it’s in your hair. Or fireplace.

I did however find the chicken:

a) In the fridge
b) on my bed
c) on the kitchen counter
d) my car
e) bathtub
f) on the deck
g) a and c
h) e and f
i) b, d, f
j) all of the above
k) neither
l) b and f
m) f and n
n) my hair

ANSWER: M !!!!!!! The deck and my hair. Thus the barrettes.

Look don’t think my life is all shoes and food. I’m working on t shirts, posters and books. For you, about Hedberg. It’s gonna be great!!!!!

Had a great yet strange dream last night. It’s too complicated to explain in all the word in the English language, but here’s a try.

I was in Russia, I think. First it was NYC but seemed very different that the usual Manhattan. There were various underground clubs Iwas goin to. Was I a detective? I’m not sure. The one thing that really stands out was I was asked to leave Moscow near the end and I remember asking the person who was exiling me if I could just go to the store and stock up on English chocolates bars. Cut to me going thru shelf after shelf piling up on English chocolate. I love English chocolate.
I love English chocolate. Also, Canadian chocolate bars rock.

This is kinda gross and not even part of my dream, but before I came to my computer to write this I had just come back from the store and coffee shop. As soon as I came home I started eating a piece of the roasted chicken I had bought. I know. it’s only 10:47 am. So Iwas eating away and kinda doing stuff. All of a sudden I realized that I was no longer eating chicken. I can’t find it anywhere. I’ve looked in the bathroom, under the bed and still can’t find it. Fuck, and it was going so well with my latte.

I wanna say thanks to the few who have sent me concert stories. Very cool. If you know any friends that have some PLEASE send them to me. This is an idea (I”m not saying it’s great) that I’ve had for so long. Mitch used to encourage me to get it started all the time…… (sigh)….regrets.

I am also going to start a book about Mitch, Mitch’s comedy, Mitch and myself. There are soooo many cool things on his memorial board. I think there are many sides of Hedberg. If you want to write things to me about him, a will get them together as well. Anything to try to help me stay busy. Everything I see, think, eat somehow morphs into something about him. It’s crazy.

I am also working on a CD or DVD, shirts, website. How about sunglasses? I know I’m awfully slow at this stuff. I apologize.

So, thanks to you all who are tremendously sweet. Bring it on. I feel stupid writing shit all the time. I want to hear others. (I already do be reading other sites, but you know what I mean….maybe you don’t). You can either use lytchell@hotmail.com or just go to the ‘Contact Lynn’ field. You don’t have to or anything because much to my surprise I can’t see the person who comes to my site when they click on it. Maybe I will offer free wwbcams on my site. That’d be cool. And sounds gay a bit. We’d have to do our hair a lot more often . And we could figure out, technically, the percentage of the day that people wear their pajamas. I love pajamas.

I think Blood Simple is arriving from NETFLIX. Oh no, there’s going to be a new book I will be writing asking for your NETFLIX tales………

Typing school is going okay but I have to admit, old habits die hard. It’s like skiing; you have to learn at an early age to really jump in with confidence.

I’m going to go and hang out in my pajamas. I love them so much I refuse to abbreviate the word pajamas. But I do say Xmas once in a while. ….
Who am I?