Reflection Entry: July 17, 2004 Meeting Pauly Shore

Kristy & I with Pauly Shore July 17, 2004

(Although this is the first "Reflection Entry" ever posted, I feel that such postings will come up from time to time as I come across photos of interest. I hope you find these reflections on past events as amusing as our present adventures.)

July 17, 2004 - Wiley's Comedy Club - Dayton, Ohio

Pauly Shore was the headliner and we were big fans of his long forgotten movies i.e. Son-In-Law, Jury Duty, & In The Army Now. So after taking pictures at a very long wedding in Degraff I grabbed Kristy and we headed for the comedy club.

Wiley's is a very cool place, a text book perfect comedy club, we enjoyed the atmosphere and the food was rather good too. The opening acts were very funny, Pauly on the other hand, well he was Pauly. It was very fun to at least meet him in person and see how he was in real life, which wasn't much different than you would expect. He is arrogant but he takes care of his fans which is by far the best indicator of a good celebrity. What I did find refreshing was Pauly's very loyal outlook on America, the President of the United States, and the military. He was very up front with his views about the current war in the middle east and his views were very optimistic. When most of his celebrity peers are bad mouthing our President and the war, he was praising him for his undeviating efforts in freeing the Iraq people. He also praised our military members for their unselfish willingness to defend freedom. Although I didn't find many of his jokes to be in my taste, I did find even ground with Mr. Pauly Shore.

ps. This photo of us was actually taken by a disposable camera that the people in line behind us owned. We brought our digital camera which malfunctioned and would not work when we stood with Pauly. So these awesome girls said that we could get our picture taken with their camera and they would send us the print. We gave them our address but didn't expect much. But sure enough a month later our picture came in the mail. We sent them back a new disposable camera to thank them.