And Speaking of Intelligence....

I just can't let the passing of George Carlin go unremarked.

In my idea of heaven, he and St. Richard Pryor are sitting at the right hand of god and god is cracking UP! He is laughing so hard his holy side is splitting. The angels are getting concerned because they haven't seen him laugh this hard since George W. Bush got elected as president. Well, the first time. By the second, god was only silently weeping.

But anyway, god is laughing now.

I only hope that somewhere an incredibly smart baby is being born who will grow up to be as irreverent, intelligent, courageous and fucking funny as these two men were because honey, this old world needs people like that.

Desperately.

How many times have I watched St. Carlin on film being completely blown away? Not only by his humor but by his incredibly unbelievable intelligence?

Too many to count.

I don't care if he was stoned or drugged up or sick or old- that man never lost it. He had the mind of a steel trap and the heart of a lion. He was a master word-smith and he used words like smart bombs. He dropped them and they did their work. They made us think, they made us laugh, they made us look at ourselves. He wasn't afraid to take on patriotism, the FCC, the pope or the president. He opened the doors and windows of the houses where all the sacred cows live and he said, "Come on in! Does this look as absurd to you as it does to me?"

And hell yes, it did.

In his honor, please let me say this:

Fuck, George! You scared the piss out of a lot of people but you were funny as shit when you did it. You weren't afraid to call a cunt a cunt or a cocksucker a cocksucker and you never, not once in your motherfucking life stopped believing that it was your job to point out all the stupid cocksucking, motherfucking shit that we crazy humans believe and do and continue to believe and do, no matter how obvious it is that it's all a big pile of shit.

You rocked, George. You were human and you made mistakes but you weren't afraid to tell us about them and you weren't afraid to show your humanity and thus allow us to honor our own. You inspired us all and you changed the world with your mind and that's fucking more than most of us ever will do.

And oh yes, you could charm the tits off us.

Love...Ms. Moon

P.S. Please give Richard our love if you and he have somehow managed to get tossed onto the same roof.