all aboard! Join the Ferry Park Crew Ferry Park is hiring front of house staff for The Lookout and Exit Zero Ferry Station! Check out www.visitferrypark.com/jobs for requirements and to apply Page 18 EXIT ZERO December 29, 2022 is hot garbage. Though I imagine, like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Wizard of Oz and anything Grateful Dead related, it’s probably not so bad if you’re all hopped up on goofballs. Shelley Winters and Ethel Merman in voice roles make it disturbing on a whole different level. What is a Boxbe waiting list and why does half my email go there? I upgraded my Hulu to commercial-free last week for one reason; the mind-numbing NJM “we are the tippy top we’re top insurance” commercials they play incessantly on every break. To the point where I would not be surprised to find that NJM is a stealth investor in Hulu. After he finishes Dune (Part 1 was my favorite movie of… whatever year it came out… everything is a blur since March 17, 2020), I hope director Denis Villanueve makes another straight-up thriller, because I rewatched Prisoners last week and it is an absolute banger. Gigs of the Week: For my two final shows of 2022 (and two of my final gigs ever? More on that after this), I’m going out with a couple of bangers; December 30 in the Brown Room and New Year’s Eve at the Corinthian Yacht Club. New Year’s is a private gig so you better all jam into the Brown Room the night before to shower me with long goodbyes and loads of cash. Thank you, Jerry Kolber, for being a great musical partner and good friend. Why might it be two of my last gigs ever, you might ask? Shut up and I’ll tell you, I might answer. Since becoming virtually unemployed a little over a month ago (writing this column and delivering magazines are, shockingly, not enough to make a living on) I’ve been doomscrolling the Indeed app like it’s Twitter, looking for a job, any job, and failing spectacularly. Seriously. I didn’t even get an interview at Arby’s (side note: Arby’s isn’t my go-to, but it never fails to satisfy). It was getting fairly depressing (okay, it was getting VERY depressing) until I finally broke through and landed a gig. Starting next week, I will be joining the materials supply team at Cape Regional Medical Center. This is basically a supply chain job, but as we’ve all learned since the Dumbassin-Chief crashed the economy, supply chains are pretty important. So, I got that going for me. Which is nice. However, it’s a 40-hour-a-week and every-other-weekend job, so I’m not sure how much room there’ll be for performing. Believe me, if I can, I will, But we shall see. You can read about my gigs in here next… oh wait… never mind. Lastly this week, goodbye. Without getting overly sentimental, in 2003 I emailed the editor-in-chief of the fledgling Exit Zero magazine about writing a sports or movie or TV or local gossip column. That editorin-chief said, “Ok.” Nearly two decades, 750+ columns and 15 serialized short stories later, here we are. I’m grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to share my worldview for the dozens of hundreds who happened upon this page and thought, “Sure, why not?” You’ve “known” my 21-19- 17-year old sons since they were infants or younger. You’ve known me since I was in my early 30s, newlywed and full of hope (I look back in fondness at that naive little guy). In turn, I’ve gotten to know many of you. I can’t remember any of your names, but I know you. You’re cool. You’re funny. And you’re good looking. You can take a joke and throw one right back. You understood that, even if I went a little too far, I never did so with malice in my heart. Mostly, I just wanted to make you laugh and I hope I did. I gave her my heart. She gave me a pen. ’Til next time...
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