Carlin Update

So I watched George Carlin's stand-up special "It's Bad For Ya" last night. I was worried because his last show, "Life is Worth Losing" a few years back, he looked really ragged, old and slow, as if he might die soon, and he didn't quite have his mojo working. Turns out he had 14 pounds of fluid in his lungs, and a few weeks after the show had to have surgery.

Now he's kickin' it with a pacemaker, and he's 70 years old. He opens with "Fuck Lance Armstrong," and then with a long bit about the benefits of "being an old fuck." I.E. you never have to lift anything heavy ever again, and no one expects you to remember anything, and you can get the hell out of any lame social event just by saying you're tired. By the time he goes off on how boring and inane most people are, I'd already been laughing out loud more than I had throughout the entirety of his last show. Possibly because it's kinda like what I imagine my grandpa would like to say about my grandma sometimes.

Yay George Carlin! He's old and slow and doesn't have the energy he used to, but he's still motherfuckin' funny.