As stunning as the news was, the truth is no less valid. George Carlin, a master wordsmith and comedic visionary, died at the age of 71 years old last night. While I was self-absorbed into my own rituals of surviving from day to day, the news reached my ears like a Boeing 747 smashing into my forehead. A man whom I admired as one our generations most overlooked and intelligent social analyzers shocked the world in a way I think not even he could have planned any better. His last jab at the country, and his fans, as a way of saying, “Gotcha, Fuckers!”In the words of the late, and beloved George Carlin, “If you haven’t gotten where you’re going, you aren’t there yet.”
Actually, I think a more fitting quote to summarize the end of a great legacy, a legacy only Mr. Carlin himself could have left behind would be, “Fuck you.”
You will be missed, Sir.
“He was here just a minute ago.” — George Carlin on what his epitaph would read
