Oh Man! I just found out today that one of the funniest of all quippers on the planet died. 2 freaking years ago! Of coke & heroin! Sorrows galore. Why? What’s the point of sitting around in a lonely room with your heroin and a surmounting debt when you are Mitch Hedberg? How many one-liners and observations are you finding…while riding the velvet coif? & he was just days away from filming an HBO Special, a career-long goal realized ~ what, was he falling anxiously short of material…or just celebrating alone? Jeeeeez! …But then I climbed a fuzzy tree, on an all-night freak-out & bark at the moon session, in lieu of snapping my neck (& leaving an ugly mobile/sculpture for the kids to find) or biting a 9mm bullet (& leaving the back of my mind on the tree trunk behind me) so who am I to carp on about another cat’s depression response mechanisms gone terribly bad….? Although I know now that I love too much to be a good candidate for suicide, there is no shortage of reasons to be anxious: (Hey…y ghost, ya varmint, ye spooky corporo-mercenary fiend, get away from me with that pokey thing, that ain’t nice, what I ever do t you, ouch…ouch…damnit! Fuck-off, get a real job, take a vacation, daddy was a dick for treatin ye thata way, momma loved ya…but she was outa her head with fear for your future, come-on…stoppit now, that ain’t right, what the fuck is that?! …yikes!)
Let’s see, hmm…our present-day-bliss is battered & deep fried in these oop oils and many more:
- Too many so-called parents who don’t give a rats ass about their kids’ daily activities, pressures, and inspirations…rule.
- So-called leaders (local, state, & fed) who rape & pillage, both physically and spiritually, the very same people who invented the notion of so-called “leaders” (as a person who delegates laws, logic, and balance unto a large group of “civilized states” for the betterment of society in the equal pursuit of life, liberty and happiness), …rule.
- An economic way of corporo-government tag-team-super-existence that is based on mining the life out of hope, home & livelihood while overwhelming the very people that make this planet groovy and worth waking up to…rules.
- A profit/power oriented two party media system of disinformation and misrepresentation that keeps good people tripping over their fear, uncertainties, and doubts & just twisted enough to be psychologically crippled but still able to work fifty hours a week (for a lower wage than their parents worked forty hours with paid lunch breaks), whilst everything cost 2 or 3 times more, in a rapidly growing police state, …rules.
- Wingnuts who constantly interject the caustic poison of party-line-dancing-noodle-headed-blunt-forked-tongued-talk-points-&-jingo-not-Djangology-moot-mimicry into otherwise intelligent forums, all the while thinking they’ve got the nut-in-the-hole and with impunity…rule…seemingly carte blanche in this day & age ~ like a deadly plague. & a decidedly meek opposition at the very toppermost of our venerated representation, poppin at the seems to cut a deal for demselves before duh kids get accepted (legacies that they likely are) to Yale Law school of creepy legends that go bump! in the night…feeds this notion like Sunday buffet.
- &, lastly but certainly no less beastly, a baffling state of sound-dampening soci-illogical argumentation that finds otherwise decent, educated, people using the oop & pragmatic means of bean counter logic to attempt to prove why much of the bad shit, legislated to keep the fat cats over-fed, is actually good for all earth & humanity ~ a situation that serves to stagger any liberating notions of meaningful & benevolent common sense logic ~ ……..rules!!
- Oh, and big ice melting into smaller ice much quicker than can be good…rules.
& it stiiiiings. So, for those of you good folk who can pull your thoughts away from the deviant sexual misconducts of the GrandioseOldPerverts long enough to even see what humor iz left in anything anymore, I give you Dr. Katz & Mitch Hedberg, and one set of Mitch Hedberg stand-up comedy…back before the nose became the needle. :o(
No, they’re not his best performances, but sometimes it’s a chore to find the good stuff. I wish I could find just one of his more outstanding sets. Bummer, the good die, while the really really horrifically bad wasters of life and limb never seem to give us even a little hint of peace by just fucking dying already…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftCcH5PMeIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bESBs3Lg7M&mode=related&search=
