Second City's Seth Weitberg has kicked off a new blog, "Easy Writer: Tales from the Road." What's it all about? Well, it's "a chronicle of life on the road with The Second City Touring Company as we bounce from place to place, trying to bring comedy to the masses." It's a cool read. Here's the current issue.

Here's Jeb Cadwell's attempted rundown of almost four hundred stand-up performances in only ten months. Did he hold a notecard at that show at Pressure last June? Did he actually put Thyme Café out of business? Only he knows for sure.

iO has put together a few new blogs, including a great one by instructor and performer Hans Holsen, who lately is opening up to the blogiverse about the wild and wonderful process of pitching to NBC, ABC, CBS, Comedy Central and The Golf Channel. If you flip through the channels and see new tv shows called "Brothers of Gnats" and "Drunk ‘N’ High," you'll know things went well for Hans.

Also newly blogging at iO is Bill Saveley, who currently entertains with theories about Roswell, UFO's, and people who mysteriously died in ways that seemed connected to former President Bill Clinton. (If next week his blog is suddenly gone, send a carefully written letter to Hillary.) Then there's Barry Hite, who lately has touched on the loss of Molly Ivans and the ridiculousness of haute couture.

Meanwhile, improv newbie Angela Manginelli, also at iO, muses about the puzzle pieces that make up the group mind: "As a younger improviser I feel it is especially important to remind myself that everything I do on stage has an effect on the overall picture, no matter how 'small' of a role it is."

- Elizabeth McQuern