Due to editorial confusion, this week's installment of Monday Mutterings is posted on a Wednesday, and is called something else entirely. Thanks for holding the tomatoes.

The weekend began with VIP passes to the Completely Jam Packed Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter show at the Metro. We caught them on this stop in Chicago on their very first straight stand-up tour; we were thankful for the passes which afforded us a spot in the slightly-more-comfortable balcony area set aside for press and other very important people. We here at Bastion have been to a lot of rock concerts at the Metro, but can't remember a time when the place was THAT full. Anyone else go to the show? What are your thoughts?

Saturday afternoon Allison Leber, Becky Garcia, and Fay Canale, a.k.a. 3/8ths of SpitFire, joined the folks at Soothe Your Senses to entertain at breast cancer benefit Pink Fling. It was a beautiful afternoon to laugh for a good cause, which is kind of lucky, considering this IS Chicago and it could have been 10 below. Everyone had a great time eating Peruvian food and wearing fuzzy pink boas.

After a very successful, hilarious special Saturday stand-up showcase at the Bird's Nest (featuring Chuck Roth, Victor Marinier, Mike Bobbitt from Detroit, and Mike Stanley, with host Bradley Fojas), we headed over to Wrigleyville to catch up with our prodigal son, TJ Miller, who was fin-al-ly back in Chicago after some time in NYC and on the road with the Second City Touring Company. We got to meet the new Grill. Yes, we mean Grill, not Girl. We heard about it on Wednesday's Red Bar episode, but didn't fully believe it until we saw it for ourselves.

Saturday night was also Dave Odd's Birthday Bash at Pressure Cafe, and Sunday night we overheard that David Letterman's booker's girlfriend was in attendance at the show, headlined by Dave himself. Hmm!

Out with the crew was none other than Mr. Thomas Middleditch, who got word of a party over on Sheffield Ave. Little did we know that we would be entering the private Lakeview Baseball Club, for an intimate gathering of people we didn't know and free draft beers which we helped ourselves to from behind the bar. It was pretty surreal, but made total sense, given the ridiculous nature of the people we had met up with, heh. Making our acquaintance with the host and proprietor of the establishment, we found out he is a sketch comedy writer in addition to running Chicago's only private rooftop club. Of course.

Sunday night was the very special benefit show in support of "Ming Mong" at Wise Fool's Pub in Lincoln Park. Ming Mong being the fictional child of sketch group Mogo Doesn't Socialize, and the benefit being to raise funds to cover their booth at Wizard World Texas this November. The group walked away with some gas and beer money for their comic book convention, and stand-up comedians Brendan McGowan, Bradley Fojas, and Lauren Bishop ensured everyone had a great time.