If I took away anything from the couple of times I saw him perform live and met him in person way back in the 80s, he wouldn’t want us to “grieve” or be “sad”. If anything, I am thankful I can reference all the two dozen or so really good expletives in one go by saying “Carlin’s FCC bit”. Thank you George!
When I was at Wired, I flew to LA to interview Carlin for our streaming radio program. We spent about 2 hours in his office.
I met a number of celebrities during my time at Wired — but he was the only hero of mine that I met.
This was my experience.
I sat down — he had an office just off the entrance where his assistant worked. We’re chatting and he stops.
Carlin: Brad, do you want something to drink?
Me: A Coke would be great.
Carlin: ::Standing up, jingling through his pocket, pulling out 75 cents:: I’ll be right back.
He walks down the hall, out the office and to the Coke machine at the end of the hall. Brings back a Coke and sits down like nothing just happened.
Me: Uh, George, I could have done that.
Carlin: You came to see me.
::smackshead::
He later signed a copy of Brain Droppings for my dad (without me asking) and gave me his number and said when my parents came through LA to call him so he could take them to lunch.
He was, without a doubt, the nicest human being I’ve ever interviewed.
While I had seen the whole show from which this clip came, it was not until now that I thought how his logic behind the accumulation of ancestors was, while critical of christianity and it’s half-arsed attempt ad condolence, is solved in places where ancestor worship, where indeed a family’s many ancestors were believed to be watching the currently living.
But had the ‘dead people are watching and helping out’ had any credibility, I would surely have a chronic anal pain from my grandpa’s ‘help’, and have cancer from the animosity of everyone in my dad’s family.
It’s almost ironic to not believe that people who despised me simply for not believing that they will not continue after they die, are indeed not doing the very thing they believed they would do and hated me for disbelieving.
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If I took away anything from the couple of times I saw him perform live and met him in person way back in the 80s, he wouldn’t want us to “grieve” or be “sad”. If anything, I am thankful I can reference all the two dozen or so really good expletives in one go by saying “Carlin’s FCC bit”. Thank you George!
not many prog comic left w/politico insight but grats to carlin for sticking it to the man ageism be damned we still have a few d.cross,p.oswald,etc.
“Politicians have traditionally hid behind 3 things: the flag, the bible and children.”
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When I was at Wired, I flew to LA to interview Carlin for our streaming radio program. We spent about 2 hours in his office.
I met a number of celebrities during my time at Wired — but he was the only hero of mine that I met.
This was my experience.
I sat down — he had an office just off the entrance where his assistant worked. We’re chatting and he stops.
Carlin: Brad, do you want something to drink?
Me: A Coke would be great.
Carlin: ::Standing up, jingling through his pocket, pulling out 75 cents:: I’ll be right back.
He walks down the hall, out the office and to the Coke machine at the end of the hall. Brings back a Coke and sits down like nothing just happened.
Me: Uh, George, I could have done that.
Carlin: You came to see me.
::smackshead::
He later signed a copy of Brain Droppings for my dad (without me asking) and gave me his number and said when my parents came through LA to call him so he could take them to lunch.
He was, without a doubt, the nicest human being I’ve ever interviewed.
While I had seen the whole show from which this clip came, it was not until now that I thought how his logic behind the accumulation of ancestors was, while critical of christianity and it’s half-arsed attempt ad condolence, is solved in places where ancestor worship, where indeed a family’s many ancestors were believed to be watching the currently living.
But had the ‘dead people are watching and helping out’ had any credibility, I would surely have a chronic anal pain from my grandpa’s ‘help’, and have cancer from the animosity of everyone in my dad’s family.
It’s almost ironic to not believe that people who despised me simply for not believing that they will not continue after they die, are indeed not doing the very thing they believed they would do and hated me for disbelieving.