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Farewell to George Carlin, Saturday Night Live's very first host, to whom no cow was too sacred:

Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

L.A. Times obit: Counterculture comedian tested the limits of speech and society, (and the source of the photo).

George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas....

I think he'd have fun with his NYT obit, which manages to use the obscure adjective "splenetic" in the headline: George Carlin, Splenetic Comedian, Dies at 71.

Splenetic: 1. Of or relating to the spleen. 2. Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability. n. A person regarded as irritable.

Aw c'mon, George's humor was never ill.

Update, 9:33 a.m.: The day shift arrived and changed "splenetic" to "irreverent."

The YouTube collection of Carlin clips

More: Remembering George Carlin at NPR.

Passenger insertion: Trains that pick you up without stopping

This is a concept for Singapore’s Metro Rail Line...The idea is that people who want to board the train get into a smaller car that piggybacks onto the moving train as it passes through the station. To get off, you get into the smaller upper car while on the train and it unhitches at the station.

There's video, but I'm having fun imagining all the ways you could drop people into a speeding train, and pluck them out of it.

On the case: Motorized suitcase saves your back at Computerworld. Its little wheels have motors. It would be even better if it could find its own way home.

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1 Comments

steve knudde said:

I have an off-the TV recording of George sing a doo-wop song "Cherry Pie" with the Pips (Gladys Knight) backing him up...he could hold a decent tune back then.

Link | June 23, 2008 7:51 PM
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