As I was winding down a long day, checking emails and headlines, I saw that the brilliant comedienne and social commentator George Carlin had died. I'm tired and will have to save it for a post later in the week, but suffice it to say that he was in the category I put Lenny Bruce, the Smothers Brothers and a handful of others who use humor to look at our society and hopefully make us look at ourselves and one another and strive to make ourselves and what surrounds us a little better. Goodbye George-- long may you run.
Monday, June 23, 2008
A Loss: George Carlin
As I was winding down a long day, checking emails and headlines, I saw that the brilliant comedienne and social commentator George Carlin had died. I'm tired and will have to save it for a post later in the week, but suffice it to say that he was in the category I put Lenny Bruce, the Smothers Brothers and a handful of others who use humor to look at our society and hopefully make us look at ourselves and one another and strive to make ourselves and what surrounds us a little better. Goodbye George-- long may you run.
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And he was the coolest movie time-travel guy since Doc Emmett Brown.
He will be greatly missed.
I hope he finally finds blue food in heaven.
Too sad. One of the great ones, certainly.
I owe my sailor's swearing capacity largely to his inspiration (in select adult company, of course . . .)
Too sad. One of the great ones, certainly.
I owe my sailor's swearing capacity largely to his inspiration (in select adult company, of course . . .)
Dmarks-
I was watching Bill and Ted with my kids recently-- my son had never seen Bill and Ted. He was way-cool, for sure.
Thinking about his life, I realized that he was only a few years older than I am now when he did Bill and Ted.
SD-
Amen.
Kristie-
"Where's the blue food?"
My favorite set of roomies in college, some guys I'd met in the dorms, were all big Carlin fans and would sometimes sit and listen to his records. One time, I was in a grocery store and saw some kind of artificially colored blue thing and brought it home for one of my roommates. It took him a minute to figure it out, but he got it.
Erik-
That bit was monumental, wasn't it? I loved how he explored language-- how he examined how we used language not to say things as much as to say things.
I owe my own sailor's mouth to a couple of summers spent as a construction worker and many years in the restaurant industry.
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