From “No Time for Sergeants” all the way through to his most recent work, I enjoyed him. Ears like the open doors on a taxicab, and a face that looked like he was related to Dresie and Casie, he was something apart from the usual. Rest in peace, boss.
Update: The comedy monologue that helped launch his career.
in the past about things that have gone that won’t be coming back. But on the radio this morning, I heard that they are barely making any more road maps.
I love road maps, I love to spread them out on a table and look for twisty roads in hilly regions, find singletrack and greenlanes, and I am one of the people who instinctively knows how to fold and unfold one, and can do so with one hand, while driving. I’mna miss those fuckers.
next up: gas stations give away cheap disposable GPS devices which give you advertisements for local businesses between directions
Was the constant bleat of my former neighbor Roger, a drunken layabout who often bitched all day about the tall grass and then sent his wife out after she got off work to mow it.
I often thought to myself, Really, Roger? Suppose you would get out of that bottle for your kids? Put down the smokes? Toss out the one hitter? get a job? Stop making your wife support your useless ass? Buy some clothes for your kids instead of making them garbagepick at goodwill?
No, what Roger actually meant was “I’ll do anythiing for my kids if it’s not too inconvenient, looks heroic, and doesn’t involve too much exertion”.
Many of the people I know, they get this. Unfortunately a powerful lot of people do not.
“I love my country. I would do anything to keep the freedoms my forefathers fought for”
Really? What are you doing today? Are you whining about how someone else is doing it wrong? Bitching about the choices we have, or the lack therof? or are you finding ways however small to fix it?
Trust me, you don’t want a bloody revolution. As often as not, the wrong people end up on top, in those. And frankly, most people are ready, willing, and able to capitulate the moment their cable quits. If you’re not capable of dealing with the drudgery of the tedious and arduous war of attrition and subversion, and the soul sucking futiliy that it brings on a day to day basis, if the shit hits the fan you aren’t going to be much use either. Love your country? Love your freedom? Will you do anything? How about if it’s not easy, convenient, heroic, or fun?
