Drinks with Jeanine, my friend who isn't very funny.

Jeanine: Does this new blog mean you are going to pursue being a comedy star? Will this blog year end with you starring in a WB show?
Me: Not really. Especially since the WB doesn't exist anymore.
Jeanine: I mean, whatever that network is. I want you to go on a mission to become a famous comedian.
Me: I'm just trying to show what my tiny corner of a tiny corner of the Chicago improv scene is like. That's it.
Jeanine: But one of us needs to get famous, Arnie. Right? And I'm having a hard time getting famous.
Me: Getting famous is HARD.

Jeanine's not doing a bad job of it, though. Her band, the 1900s, keeps getting all kinds of good press. It's interesting, however, as an outsider, to see how being in a relatively successful band mostly leads to being more poor, rather than the other way around.

She was recently asked to be part of a panel discussion focusing on important women in the Chicago music industry.

Jeanine: A lot of those women are my heroes. It was awesome.

As you can tell from this picture, like many of my friends, I think Jeanine is tired of me taking pictures.

Jeanine: I like this new blog because if we hang out, you won't write about it because I have nothing to do with comedy.
Me: You'll still be in the blog.
Jeanine: Can you write it like, "Today i had lunch with Jeanine, my friend who isn't very funny." And then that would be it.