About George Carlin...
1) I'm more heartbroken by the hour that his voice has been silenced.
2) He was so much more than his "Seven Dirty Words"...though anyone smart will realize that.
3) Read BRAINDROPPINGS, people. You'll laugh out loud while furiously nodding your head in agreement.
4) Sacrilege Alert: I see a lot of myself in him. A LOT. I'd fully flesh this out if I wasn't falling asleep at the keyboard. Many things he has said or written are things that would totally come straight out of my mouth...the profanity and the opinion combined into one scathing comment. Like what I heard tonight on a clip from one of his HBO specials about the fucking idiots holding up checkout lines by paying for something like a $2.00 bag of candy with their fucking credit card.
Carlin's general disgust for stupidity, his questioning of society, his curiousity, his razor sharp mind, his vicious profanity and pushing boundaries of good taste not SO much to shock (though that's fun, too) -- because any worthy provocateur has a raging intellect to COMPLEMENT the curse words -- but to reveal truth and hypocrisy, his Irish Catholic background...these are all things I have in common with Carlin. But you know what else? As his daughter and brother pointed out on Larry King tonight, DESPITE his cynical, profane, confrontational "work persona," Carlin was one of the kindest, most thoughtful people they knew one-on-one...and, yes, I'm the same way. Honest. I swear to you i'm not some hard-to-stand obnoxious fuck. Unless i'm right and you're wrong, and you JUST won't admit it.
Now I realize how nauseatingly self-congratulatory this all is to say. I know many will want to smack me. I understand. But it's MY blog, MY head of thoughts...and right now, i'm discussing why I love(d) George Carlin so much, so forgive my indulgence. And, yeah, I'm gonna toot my own horn now and then. I wouldn't have this blog in the first place if I didn't have a huge ego. But I think I back it up far more often than not. And i'm POLITE in person!! Carlin's death has me thinking. But, anyway, I'm gonna go read some of BRAINDROPPINGS now. Thanks for the trailblazing inspiration, George. Rest as well as you can.
2) He was so much more than his "Seven Dirty Words"...though anyone smart will realize that.
3) Read BRAINDROPPINGS, people. You'll laugh out loud while furiously nodding your head in agreement.
4) Sacrilege Alert: I see a lot of myself in him. A LOT. I'd fully flesh this out if I wasn't falling asleep at the keyboard. Many things he has said or written are things that would totally come straight out of my mouth...the profanity and the opinion combined into one scathing comment. Like what I heard tonight on a clip from one of his HBO specials about the fucking idiots holding up checkout lines by paying for something like a $2.00 bag of candy with their fucking credit card.
Carlin's general disgust for stupidity, his questioning of society, his curiousity, his razor sharp mind, his vicious profanity and pushing boundaries of good taste not SO much to shock (though that's fun, too) -- because any worthy provocateur has a raging intellect to COMPLEMENT the curse words -- but to reveal truth and hypocrisy, his Irish Catholic background...these are all things I have in common with Carlin. But you know what else? As his daughter and brother pointed out on Larry King tonight, DESPITE his cynical, profane, confrontational "work persona," Carlin was one of the kindest, most thoughtful people they knew one-on-one...and, yes, I'm the same way. Honest. I swear to you i'm not some hard-to-stand obnoxious fuck. Unless i'm right and you're wrong, and you JUST won't admit it.
Now I realize how nauseatingly self-congratulatory this all is to say. I know many will want to smack me. I understand. But it's MY blog, MY head of thoughts...and right now, i'm discussing why I love(d) George Carlin so much, so forgive my indulgence. And, yeah, I'm gonna toot my own horn now and then. I wouldn't have this blog in the first place if I didn't have a huge ego. But I think I back it up far more often than not. And i'm POLITE in person!! Carlin's death has me thinking. But, anyway, I'm gonna go read some of BRAINDROPPINGS now. Thanks for the trailblazing inspiration, George. Rest as well as you can.
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