The ever-funny Ted Alexandro just confirmed that they're playing some episodes of my web-series "The Opener" at Comix in NYC. If you're in the venue for a show, keep an eye out for them.

Comix comedy club - www.comixny.com
The Opener - www.youtube.com/tewsbox

- Jim

Photo by James Blumenfeld

While we were on vacation, my girlfriend and I visited Assateague Island, which is a national park in Maryland/Virginia. If you're not familiar with it, it's known for its wild ponies. You can visit the park and see these wild ponies all over the island, it's a very cool experience.

At one point we got pretty close to a small group of ponies, probably about twenty or thirty yards away. As we watched the horses graze, we noticed that one of the ponies had something hanging from its midsection. The family standing next to us noticed it too and I heard their little boy say "Mommy, look! That horse is having a baby, I see the baby-horse's leg!"

From where we were standing, it looked as though the boy was right. It looked like what was dangling from the horse was actually the leg of a newborn foal. I thought to myself "How amazing is this? We're witnessing one of the most beautiful acts of nature, birth."

We all walked a little closer. That's when I realized that what we were seeing wasn't a mare giving birth, but rather a stallion who had an erection.

That's kind of like a metaphor for life.

When you're young you assume that everything beautiful and innocent. But as you grow older, you realize that life doesn't work that way.

Sometimes what you thought was beautiful and innocent is just a big, purple horse-boner.