Chevy Chase and counting the homeless

So in an attempt (although, rather feeble) to keep up with my celebrity-spotting friends, I have to report that Erika and I braved the cold on MLK weekend to get tickets for our usual holiday visit to Upright Citizens Brigade (the standup comedy place) on Sunday night. And I mean, it was cold! Felt like 8 degrees! Being the veteran line sitters that we are, we decked out in longjohns and huddled under blankets for an hour, and it payed off, because the guest monologuist was Chevy Chase! So that was fun, although he actually put on a really bad performance. It was like the poor man was having a stroke, really, but the rest of the regular cast didn't seem to mind, and they were funny anyway.

Coming up this week is the annual DHS HOPE count, which is the annual census of street homeless. Over 2,500 volunteers go out the night of Jan. 28, and I'm going to be counting with a team of people from my division in Brooklyn. It should be interesting, more on that later... In the meantime, a short blurb from Time Out New York.