About - This Blue Couch

About This Blue Couch & Chad Tabary

I'm Chad Tabary. I live in New York City. I'm the production manager and co-founder of Hard Knock Laughs, a live entertainment production company. I am an entrepreneur focused on Business IT, Real Estate, and the Performing Arts. I also work by day for the U.S. Coast Guard as an IT, and I am scheduled to separate from active duty after 12.5 years of service. Update: And I now work with the exceptionally talented Customer Care team at Squarespace.

(Note that all opinions on this website are mine only.)

As a comedy producer in NYC, I have the pleasure of seeing some of the city's most talented stand-up comics grow and thrive, and the relationships I've built in this underground industry are some of the most rewarding of my life.

I'm a licensed Real Estate Salesperson fascinated by the NYC markets. I am a student of Finance, and Computer Applications in Business. I am a writer. I am a husband that chooses daily to love an amazing woman named Mellody.

Contact:

You can connect with me on Twitter.
You can email me through the Contact Form.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Why do you blog?

I blog because it makes me a better writer, and you should too! I blog because it's mine; I "own" the channel, and I can put everything that is me on it. I blog for longevity and centralization (you should export regularly though!). Much of my creative work was being distributed and scattered around the Internet through different platforms I used, now it's all here, on This Blue Couch.

Another realization of mine was that a lot of my inspiration and recorded thoughts were getting lost in the micro-blogging world (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, ect). That stuff is permanent, per se (nothing really leaves the Internet), but micro-blogging is an in-the-moment platform with a shelf life, whereas blogs can last as looooong as you keep paying the hosting bill!

I wanted to bring it all back. I went digital in 1999 (coding my first website), and I started writing online in 2005, creating what would later become commonly known as a weblog, a blog. I moved it all to Squarespace in 2005-ish when I decided I wanted to write more than I wanted to code. I lost my information and found it a couple times over the years, and now I have it all back, and I am keeping it!

Don't you think this puts too much information about yourself on the Internet?

No. This is just a matter of accepting a reality and then deciding that my own contribution can't hurt anymore than what is already out there! If you do just a smidgen of searching online for your personal details, you will find that they are out there, in abundance. I simply choose to own mine, and have the final authoritative word about it.

Also, because I was a hormone crazed, idiot, young 20-year-old during the digital camera explosion (pay attention Millennials!), there is already enough incriminating data out there to prevent me from ever running for any type of political position. I didn't want to anyway.

Further, I was a practicing real estate agent in New York City for a year and a half or so, so all kinds of contact info is archived on the web about me. Lastly, I've been enlisted in the military since Spring of 2000. One Freedom of Information Act letter to the U.S. Government will send you more information about myself then I could probably ever dream of hiding, delivered in a neatly packed envelope.

What is Hard Knock Laughs?

Hard Knock Laughs is an entertainment production company that I co-founded with a really talented comic back in 2008. I take care of the business end, and he takes care of the creative end. We built and run a successful 90-minute weekly stand-up comedy show in the Lower East Side of NYC called Hard Knock Laughs.

It is really, really good. I'm not just saying that because I have a 49% stake in it ;) I had never seen stand up comedy the way it was really meant to be shown until I saw the likes of Mike Yard, Greer Barns, Marc Theobald, Wil Sylvince, Marina Franklin, and sooooo many others perform live onstage in the intimate settings of a seedy comedy club. Now we hire them and give them an audience, thus making a show for you, three of them a week, and every week. We like what we do!

Did your wife really offer to let you knock her up if you get six pack abs?

(Photo: We be Saints Fans)Yes, and I am incredibly excited about that! One: because I really want to meet my kids! And, two: because I think having a six pack will be pretty damned sexy! I however have never had a six pack, nor been extremely lean and cut, so this nut will be an interesting one to crack.

Are you giving away free business IT consultations?

Kinda. There's a catch to it. It mainly requires coffee and some Twitter love. See the details here.

Can I ask you some more questions?

Yes. BUT, I run or contribute to several businesses, and I also have full time obligations to the U.S. Coast Guard. Because of that, email is the worst way to try and get a hold of me! I delete messages with half glances some times. The most effective way to get a hold of me is via my Twitter account, @chadtabary. Or you can leave a comment on this blog.

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