Nate Bradford has been my Facebook friend for years, but I only recently got the chance to see his stand-up comedy, thanks to Youtube. It turns out he’s a damned funny guy.
Here he is at Central Maine Comedy Invitational on March 15th. (Warning — adult content.) His bit about the “Farmers Only” dating service is my favorite gag here. (If you have ever spent time in the Baltimore area, those endless commercials might have driven you insane.)
Nate’s a member of the River Comics comedy troupe, and he regularly performs stand-up at House of Bacon, Pedro O’Hara’s, and 84 Court Street in Lewiston, Maine.
Let’s see if I understand the story here … if you reach the top of Maine’s Cadillac Mountain during autumn or winter, you can see the sun rise over the United States for the first time that day? Hot damn if that isn’t a great excuse for a road trip. I’ve been hoping to take a long journey to Maine with a couple of buddies of mine in New York — this would be a perfect destination.
Mount Desert Island, where the mountain is situated, is so far north that I figure it must be easy to just hop on a boat and hit Nova Scotia. That’s a place I’ve always wanted to see, ever since we studied it in Geography 101 at Mary Washington College. I might have gotten a “D” in that class, but Nova Scotia’s beauty was still not lost on me.
Two really good buddies of mine brainstormed with me today in New York about our plans for an eventual road trip to Maine. I’m posting this as a little incentive for us to firm up our plans in the coming months.
Our “Three Musketeers” thing worked out quite awesomely when we last headed north together, on a trip to Rhode Island maybe … 12 years ago? Tempus fugit. We’re long overdue for another adventure.
I’m not clear about whether “Say thank ya” is actually said in Maine. It is the vernacular for much of “Mid-World,” one of the many parallel universes depicted in Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” novels. And it is correctly quoted — it’s separate from the “Thankee, Sai” formal expression that we more often hear in the world of Roland Deschain.
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