June 2009
3 posts
George Carlin: One Year Gone
A year ago today, I awoke at 2:30 in the morning to my phone ringing. It was my good friend Stephen Boatright calling. He said “I know I’m waking you up, but I figured you’d want to know immediately.” “It’s all good, what’s wrong?” “George Carlin just died.” “Thanks for telling me. I really appreciate it.” I hung up the phone. I got up and wandered into my kitchen, in a weird state of shock and...
Jun 23rd
on the current culture of comedic personas
In light of recent events, bloggings and conversations, the idea of public persona versus private self has been on my mind a lot. It’s something that everyone deals with. In some instances, people are publicly obnoxious and off putting, while privately they couldn’t be more calm and caring. Others are publicly well liked, while they’re really tearing their families apart. I could go on about this...
Jun 19th
On Sarah Palin and David Letterman
WARNING! ADULT LANGUAGE CONTAINED WITHIN! DO NOT READ IF EASILY OFFENDED! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, SO DONT COMMENT ON MY USAGE OF LANGUAGE. THAT IS ALL. CONTINUE. I consider myself a student of comedy, as well as a lover of politics. Since high school, my heroes have been Andy Kaufman and George Carlin. I’ve listened to every Carlin recording countless times, and seen every clip I can find of...
Jun 13th
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Mar 23rd
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FML
Today has really sucked. I’m stuck at a job I hate alone for 4 more hours. I got cussed out by a self important prick who feels that he’s more entitled to special treatment because he’s been pampered all his life. Yesterday I lost a memory card with 800 photos from the Elton John/Billy Joel concert I saw Saturday, and some photos I took of my friend Tim Cofield. So unless it...
Mar 17th
dream
ever had a nightmare that felt so real you woke up and were scared to death then realized everything was ok? well, the exact opposite just happened to me. i’ve had a lot on my mind lately, and in my dream a lot of those things worked themselves out, and it was really wonderful, and i was very very happy. i woke up feeling like it had realy happened, and was excited to go about my day today...
Mar 16th
Mar 12th
I'm new here.
My old stuff is here: andystill.wordpress.com I think I like tumbler better. So here we go.
Mar 10th