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30 September 2007
This will not Wend-ell ! Happy birthday old man !!!
Thanks for all the (End) Well Wishes Everybody!!!
I think I gained two pounds from taz's virtual cake
Just got back from seeing George Carlin prove that it is possible to be funny when you're even older than I am: not all that easy, but possible. Out of his 75-minute 'all-new-material-for-his-next-HBO-special' set, 45-minutes were big enough laughs for me to check for my inhaler several times; the other 30 were either more like a sociology lecture randomly punctuated with 'fuck' or sounded strangely like somebody else's material. But I highly recommend his routines on The Joys of Being an "Old Fuck", the craft of joke-telling (using three genuinely disgusting but funny jokes), a not-so-new but fresh five minutes on bad and good bumper stickers (the best: "If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church"), the expectations we place on dead people ("he's looking down on us and smiling... unless he went to hell, then he's looking up at us and screaming in pain") and honest reactions to people showing off their kids' pictures ("You rarely see a head like that...")
Finally I make it to someone's birthday post on the right day! Happy birthday Wendell!
I'm glad George C. came through for you. (I remember when you were trying to figure out which show to see, and in all seriousness I'd been wondering whether it had happened yet, whether you'd enjoyed it, &c.)
Happy Birthday, old man. And for what it's worth, when I found that Macintosh floppy disks were allowed to have names attached to them (in 1984), I named one of my first ones 'Wendell'.
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