No Laughing Matter
By now everyone has heard the news of George Carlin’s exit and have dealt with it in their own way. The news hit me like a brick last week. I had just seen Carlin in October at the Fox Theatre. He was warming up material for his upcoming HBO Special. He looked old but no one there knew that in six months time he would no longer be writing new material for the next special. If you saw the special you’ll notice that he was a little morbid and it had me wondering all week if he knew this would be the last laugh. I really enjoyed Carlin’s work because he made you laugh and he made you think all in the same joke. He didn’t pull any punches and didn’t care if he offended his audience. As he told those of us in attendance back in October:
The audience doesn’t figure into my plans....I’m here for me, you’re here for me and no one’s here for you
Kevin Smith wrote a good article on Carlin for Newsweek. I suggest you read it if you’re a fan of either. George Carlin was one of my favorite Comedians and I’m glad that I got the chance to sit 4 seats away from him. Now who’s going to pick up where he left off?
Tornado Conspiracy?
Wow...first post of 2008! I made a New Year’s resolution to blog more and you can see how quickly I broke that one! I wanted to get a quick post in to let everybody know that I’m still here. That F2 tornado that hit downtown Atlanta didn’t really affect me all that much. It’s going to change the look of things downtown for a while but I rarely get into the city anymore.
Earlier this week I argued that it wasn’t really a tornado that destroyed Atlanta. I don’t know if you heard but Dish Network attempted to launch a satellite from Kazakhstan on Friday night. Coincidentally the satellite didn’t make its intended orbit and was lost in space. Now it looks like they’ve somehow found the satellite and will push it up into orbit. Yay science! As a Dish Network subscriber I just can’t wait to enjoy all of those nice HD channels that the DirecTV people have had for darn near a year now!
Don’t worry. From here on out you’ll see a new post from me at least once a week. That’s all I can promise. Hey it’s better than nothing!
