Goodbye, George

George Carlin Passes Away

The first comedian that was actually talking to ME. To my generation. He was part of the soundtrack of my life in the 60s and 70s -- Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, the Stones, George Carlin.

"George Carlin, the acerbic, Grammy-winning comedian whose career spanned more than 50 years, died of heart failure Sunday evening after being admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains, his spokesman said. He was 71." [MORE...]

"When I die, I don’t want to be buried, but I don’t want to be cremated either. I want to be blown up."

In your honor, George, the Seven Words -- shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

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George Carlin became a pop-culture sensation for the first time in the early ’70s, most notoriously with his "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," but his recent monologues have been just as sharp and devastating. Now 70, and living along the canals of Venice, he's about to celebrate his 50th year as an entertainer. Carlin today aims much of his comic wrath directly at his first devoted audience: the Baby Boomers, all grown up and in charge. The "excessive and exaggerated" generation of Bush and Clinton has really let him down.

(via: LACityBeat)

He sure as hell makes "70" look pretty good.

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Tuesday WEBTRAIL::
Gallery/Bare/Voxing/Carlin/Courtney/Atheism/Johari/

* Huzzah Hussar - Good to finally see more about artist Michael Hussar whose new series, Red Red Robin," opened at Pasadena's Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery on Saturday nite. Also paintings from Camille Rose Garcia's Doomcave Daydream

* Vox Rox - Vox is a really nice platform for keeping a weblog or a journal. It's from the Six Apart family who also has Livejournal and Typepad. One of the best features of Vox is the tons of templates to choose from. If you could ftp it, I'd leave Blogger in the wind.

* Courtney: "This is more Movie Star, isn't it?" she says, wriggling. "I don't want to be too, you know . . . rargh." She mimes a state of base sexual allure. "You know, Warren [Beatty] took me for lunch, and he said: "Courtney, in the movies there are wives and there are whores. You have to learn to play a wife." Revealing article. Times Online

* George Carlin on Religion: The Greatest Bullshit Story Ever Told

* Bare Down There or Square - Do you dare bare your pudanda? Whoa... personal. But we'd still like to know, wouldn't we? link

* Blogickal has a post about using "...The Johari Window to test just how differently people perceive my online and offline personæ", which intrigued me to no end. link

* An Atheist Laments - "Those with the power to elect presidents and congressmen-and many who themselves get elected-believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah's Ark, that light from distant galaxies was created en route to the Earth and that the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine breath, in a garden with a talking snake, by the hand of an invisible God. This is embarrassing." link

Lurking is the new black. Thank you for stopping by.

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Did all my wunnerful blogging children out there have a nice Mutha's Day? Good.



I watched the Survivor Finale. Isn't human nature fascinating? You got your greed, your lust, your deceit, your primal urges, all based on survival instincts. Princessess and wusses need not apply, But usually do. And sometimes even win.



Jimi Hendrix felt pen doodles up for auction in London. Wish I could find a picture of them.



Patriotic Blinders - the latest fashion craze. "We don't let George go anywhere without his Patriotic Blinders.



Treasury to unveil a new $20.00 bill tomorrow, May 13, Tuesday. But it won't be green. They haven't said what color it will be yet. Rumor has it that William Bennett is giving the color "blue" 5-1 odds. [no, not really]



Steve Winwood celebrating a birthday today. Born in 1948.

Comedian George Carlin also born on this day in 1937.



Blogging Back - Many blogs are back up and running now conflict is over. [seen on CNN Headline News crawl last night]



Tam saw Saliva and other groups on Saturday. Did you say hello to Josey for me?



Quotes For Today

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2?

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Good Morning...



Old movies I've watched again lately that didn't stand the test of time. Ned Kelly. Still painful to watch, but it IS Mick as a young man. A Clockwork Orange. It helped to have the actual glossary that came with the book. I was so stoned when I saw it the first time in Daytona Beach, (or was it Fort Lauderdale?) that the surrounding experience glorified the whole movie for me. But, Malcolm MacDowell was rushed to the head of coolness in one fell swoop. And would have stayed there until I happened to see him on Fantasy Island. And Crossroads. I fussed over it at one time, and now it's just corny to me.



Was I so fickle at 15? My wonderful daughter can seem like Linda Blair in the Exorcist one minute, and be all sweetness and light the next minute. Seriously. She can quickly change her mood and I'm left shaking my head. I seem to remember myself being consistently bitchy or consistently aloof. But she can go from zero to bitch in under 6 seconds. I'm still too stunned to talk to her about it. I don't know if an embrace or a duck 'n' cover is in order. But I still tell her every single night, "I love you just the way you are", even if it does conjur up a pukefest in her mind.



I want some great satirist to speak for our country. But, it won't be Bill Maher. Although he's come closer than most, there's just no heart, or passion there. After watching Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin, the bar is still up there pretty high. I expect a great deal out of my political satirists.



Jimmy Carter can't NOT speak his heart on the upcoming war. This should be required reading for everyone.



MoDo's 'Xanax Cowboy' column agrees with my Bush speech assessment of him calling forth the 'Thorazine Salute'.



A company tied to Vice President Dick Cheney has won a Pentagon contract for advice on rebuilding Iraq's oil fields after a possible war.



Coming soon to a theater near you.

Rent my chest?



I have always dreamed

Of a home filled with children:

An instant sweatshop

[via: haikooties]



Birthdays - March 9

John Cale - (Velvet Underground - 1942)

Robin Trower - 1945



Quote For Today

I will permit NO MAN to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

~Booker T. Washington



I need someone really bad...Are you really bad?

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