Works In Progress


topic : Obituary

George Carlin, US radical 1937–2008

July 2008

by Sergei Holmes

Editor’s note: We would love to have included some actual writing excerpts from George Carlin but goofy shit like copyright rules kept us limited to an homage. So please accept these words from a fan with a recommended reading/hearing/viewing list at the end.

My first and only significant use of plagiarism was when I lifted George Carlin’s “Kids Are Too Small”, “Rules, Rules, Rules” and “Parents’ Cliches and Children’s Secret Answers” from his 1977 On the Road album.

It was for a speech presentation in fifth grade. And I had studied that album.

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"Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73"

June 2008

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by The official Obituary as provided by the family. May 24,2008

Nevada City, California:

Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor.

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