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Last Monday morning before 5am, I caught the tail end of a news report on George Carlin. The reporter used the past tense and I immediately thought he had passed away. Scouring the Internet immediately, I found out the story was about the Mark Twain award. This morning, I got the word that he passed away yesterday. Truly sad news to start the week.

I'm not very familiar with Carlin's standup material besides the "seven words" and "stuff" bits. Rather, I'm more familiar with his roles in Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jersey Girl. I placed a couple of his standup DVDs on my Netflix queue last week. Now I want to add more.

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Eric said…
RIP Mr. Carlin.
9:10 PM
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