Stand-up comedian and hypnotist Flip Orley first learned about his craft at age 12 when he bought the book How to Pick Up Girls Through Hypnotism. “Most of the girls in school liked me as a buddy,” he says. “When I would ask them to a dance, they’d say, ‘Oh, but we’re too good of [...]

On the way to Austin I listened to a George Carlin comedy album, not sure which one it was. "White people have no business playing the blues. They give people the blues, they have no business playing them," he said.
Carlin's words came back into my mind while watching Heartless Bastards perform at Stubbs Bar-B-Que. Surely [...]