A Modern Man passes away
Granted, this is a web hosting company so, for the most part, you expect this blog to be primarily about web hosting. Occasionally, an event takes place and I feel the need to say something about it because to ignore it seems patently ridiculous. George Carlin dying is one of those events.
I don’t know when I first heard Carlin - it seems like I’ve just always known who he was and he’s always made me laugh. I do know I first saw him on HBO, and was amazed that he was saying the things that he was saying. Other people have HBO Boxing Nights where everything stopped for the big fight - I had Carlin HBO special nights, where everything stopped. I would sit with college friends and drink, then later I would watch it on the small screen in my own apartment, and later I would snuggled down before my LED Big Screen with my husband and dog in suburbia. Most of my adult life, Carlin was there to re-phrase the obvious, point out the absurd, and make me laugh about it.
So, screw web hosting for a day.
Today I want to share one of my favorite bits Carlin did which is probably a little lesser well known. The following is “Modern Man”:
I’m really going to miss him, and honor one of the most mainstream radicals we’ve ever had the honor to be touched by.
I’ve been pre-washed, pre-cooked, pre-heated,
pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged,
post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped
and vacuum-packed.
And…I have unlimited broadband capacity.
Tags: george carlin, sappy draknet
I have loved George Carlin since the first time I heard “The Seven Words” as a youngin’ (I had cool parents). He was one of the few comedians who really made me think.
On one of the forums I frequent someone joked about how Carlin would return as a zombie, and do a world tour consisting of jokes about the afterlife and how our beliefs about it are all wrong.
He will be missed.
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Babs on June 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I am as touched, if not more so, by George Carlin’s passing as I was about John Bulishi’s passing years ago. This country is a bit darker without him.
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wolfwyndd on June 24th, 2008 at 11:02 am