Blogging Under The Influence.

I don't regret it, (See done with the dying post)

but I don't recommend it either.

Finished setting up our cafepress store last night too,

better go double check that now...or,

I could do that later and just go back to bed.

Done with people dying

Maybe I'm just extra sensitive because my Mom died recently, June 13th. But I am so done hearing about who died.

Ed McMahon, Farrah fawcett, the yelling dude from the infomercials, and of course Michael Jackson who I'm torn about because I believe he did everything that was said about him, but I also believe that had he been raised right, protected, he wouldn't have turned out the way he did. None of which makes what I believe he did right, but makes it hard to hate him completely for it, it's all effed up in my head.

I just hate the whole "celebrity" trumps other people crap. "300 homes were lost in the L.A. fires, of the homes lost were (3 random celebrities)" as if their homes matter more than everyone Else's...

And, as each "celebrity" passes, they are called the greatest this or that until the next day when another passes. I refuse to make this all about mj, but the term, greatest entertainer keeps coming up, and a Man, a Man I knew only by association passed today, that even though I never met the man, HE was a great performer, and who cares? who's gonna hear about it, set up a memorial?

The Man's name was Cain Lopez, and as a comedian, and knowing comedians and their nature,, when every comic you know describes another comic as incredibly funny, hilarious, one of the best, and also adds that he is a good guy, a good person, He is.

I'm just tired of the dying, the hierarchy, the idea that one death is more important than another, nobody trumps my Mom!! and who is to say who is a bigger loss?

All I know is this, if I am not related to, friends with, or personally connected to someone who has just passed, for the next few weeks or so,, I do not want to hear about it. I'm done with all the dying.

Dave.

Dave Bothun and Marc Yaffee, Comedians, Entrepreneurs???

Hey ya'll,

Dave here, still can't believe how much Marc and I have

accomplished with this whole ShopI69.com thing,

it seems like it's been a lot longer than a month,

less than a month actually.

I've known Marc for right about 7 years now,

Marc was actually the first comedian to take me on

the road with him, and he didn't even know me at the

time, great guy, good friend.

I like working with Marc for 3 reasons, he's a good

dude, like I said. We write a lot of new material

whenever we work together, and last but not least,

Marc has no sense of smell,,, none.

So whenever we're driving and Marc rips one,

he looks over as He's rolling down the window and says

something like, "I don't know if that smells, so you better

roll your window down too" lol. Then when I rip one, I just

look over and smile.

So, we do comedy shows together when we can, usually

at least 6-7 road trips a year. A little over a month ago,

June 8th(My B-day) thru June 15th we were doing a tour

in South Texas (I'll post some video of the trip soon) We

started in San Antonio, drove up to Brownwood TX,

(Never heard of it either) then down to Laredo, and then

we worked our way east doing a show a night until we

ended up on South Padre Island, it was an awesome run

with some great shows. I could have done without the

weather though.

On Saturday, while driving to San Antonio to get a room

and fly out the next day, we passed a sign saying "future

junction Interstate 69" Well the jokes started flying, and we

had just been discussing merch, (the different things that

other comedians and ourselves sell after shows to try and

make some extra money). We soon decided to partner up

on the whole I-69 thing, and like I said, less than a month later,

we have trademarks, an online store, we are on our third

order of 100 shirts and I don't know how many bumper

stickers we've sold...

There's a Myspace, twitter and of course a Blogger account.

Our CafePress store (see CafePress slide show, top of page)

has 5 designs and over 30 products so far. We should have

another 5-6 designs and another 50-60 products in our

CafePress store by the end of the week.

It's crazy how much there is to do, between setting up and

maintaining the Myspace, twitter, GoDaddy, Blogger and

CafePress sites. There's making a business plan, cash flow

analysis wha??? business license, taxes, shipping/receiving,

finding a printer and on and on and on...

We've managed to keep from getting any loans or investors,

the shirts are selling like hotcakes at the comedy shows we do,

and that has been how we have been raising capitol. We are

hoping our CafePress store will take off soon. We are just now

starting to show up in search engines, that's a job in itself.

We've come a long way, and we have a hell of a long way to go.

Well, this has gone long enough already, will write more later.

Check out our CafePress products at the top of the page,

and while you're here check the You Tube clips I posted of

Marc and I doing some of our comedy, hope you like em.

Dave.

Took the Bart train from Millbrae to San Francisco Intl Airport. The fare just went from three dollars roundtrip to eight dollars. For a two mile train ride!

Today I started a brand new blog but I'm not ready I'm in a fog. I cannot blog upon a log, I cannot blog when I'm in smog. I cannot blog when drinking egg nog