June 2008 Archives
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Touched By An Atheist
I saw Carlin perform in Seattle when I first moved here, with my best friends Sean and Kristen. It was a brilliant show, and will always remain in my head as the moment when I first realized that I wasn't in Salt Lake City anymore - that I had finally escaped, and Seattle was such a great place to be living instead.
And I was in the audience for MadTV when they recorded the laugh track for his Touched By An Atheist. If you hear a really loud, high-pitched squeal of delight all through the bit - yup, that's me.
There is a great tribute page for him on The Onion AV Club. Many fans have left their (appropriate) condolences and I recommend the long, but fascinating, 2005 interview.
And let me add the memoriam my wonderful (and sarcastic) Significant Other contributed this morning: "He's with the angels now." LOL.
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This is probably easiest to read in my deviantArt Gallery.
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Yes, this conversation is important to the plot. Yes, this is still a fantasy comic and not some introspective account of my life. You'll just have to wait until book II to see the relevance...
Men and women were never different... They loved, and wanted, and behaved blindly and for reasons they did not understand; they sometimes crippled thier children even when they were trying to love them, and sowed good fruit and evil without being able to tell which was which, and did foolish things to escape pain that in the end could not be escaped.
Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
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