Belated Happy Birthday, George Carlin

Dude turned seventy on Saturday. Maybe it was just because I didn't hear Pryor until later, but there was no stand-up philosopher more influential on my thinking.

What are your favorite Carlin bits, lines, roles? I could invoke all of the classics, but I've also got a special fondness for the gentler stuff he did on Take-Offs and Put-Ons, such as his commercial parodies:

"All right, Mrs. Wilson, can you tell me if one of these piles of laundry is whiter than the other?"
"Oh, no. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. Definitely no-yeah. One of the piles is definitely whiter than the other one."
"... Brilliant deduction, Mrs. Wilson. Now, can you tell me which pile is the whiter of the two?"
"The blue pile."
[sotto voce] "No, dummy, it's not the blue pile."
"Oh, well, then it's definitely the white pile. When is this commercial gonna be on television?"
"... Not for a long time, Mrs. Wilson."

Size Does Matter

Well, this is gonna be interesting: Postal rates get higher and more complicated today. Since I use the USPS for CD orders, and I use those cardboard mailers, I have no idea what my rates are going to be yet. As soon as I have more of a clue, I'll update TSO. I sincerely hope I don't have to change prices; right now postage and the mailing supplies just about balance out the costs, and I'm willing to eat a few cents per order to keep it simple. We'll see.

Do the new rates affect you or your business?

Frustration

You will either find this beyond hilarious or merely WTF. The whole thing's just under twenty-four minutes, but you'll get the idea very quickly.

The video is just Super Mario Bros. The audio is SO NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

Put Down The Duckie

And, to counter the previous one, one of the absolute best Sesame Street music spots ever.

Kaja Foglio Is Sick

Word from philfoglio is that his lovely wife kajafoglio is in the hospital with a recurrence of Crohn's Disease. Send get-well cards, books, etc., to her care of Studio Foglio.

They are going to try to maintain the Girl Genius schedule. If something happens, now you know why.