Photo from North Shore Animal League
Oct 5, 2008
Jazzy Meld
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 10:45 AM 1 comments
Labels: Chutzpah, Richard Belzer, The Chairman
Jun 28, 2008
In Memoriam to George Carlin
George Carlin is in the rarefied pantheon of the few, too few, truly great stand-up comedians. Along with Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor, George Carlin embodied the Swiftian, Twainish culturally astute rapier wit and wisdom that every era needs. The love of language the horror, ecstasy and sublime ridiculousness of human behavior along with the sensibility to synthesize psychology and sociology into the unique poetry of joke-telling is the very recipe for comic greatness.
And now immortality...
Good night sweet Prince.
Richard Belzer - June 23, 2008, Huffington Post
"What Carlin had in common with the pantheon Richard Belzer names is that he was as much (or perhaps more) a cultural observer than a comedian. He made people laugh but he didn't really tell jokes in the classic sense. He seldom if ever tried to act silly for cheap laughs. Instead he'd grab hold of some aspect of our culture or of life and strip it down to the bare bones of its absurdity. He'd make me see things I'd always passed over or never thought about in quite that weird way, and make me wonder why I'd never seen it that way. And even when he did push the silly envelope, his riffs would stay in my mind sometimes for weeks, like tunes I couldn't get rid of.
Still, I will not give up eccentric observationism, nor will I give in to culturally purposeless whims. Thank you, George for clearing the path so the different drummer could follow your example. You were a rare bird, but thankfully, the sacred fool will never be exterminated.
(So there, Orkin Man - go play Old Maid with the Maytag repair guy.)
The foolish will always confound the automated wise.
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 12:50 AM 2 comments
Labels: Chutzpah, Comedians, Faith, Richard Belzer, Tribute
Jun 15, 2008
Get On The Bus Already!
Richard Belzer On Fame: “
...you have to really humiliate yourself early on,
make a fool of yourself… which you probably will any way.
Then you’ll see how bad it is when you look at it again. And you’ll adjust.”
From Belzervision, BeBe
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 12:24 AM 3 comments
Labels: Chutzpah, Richard Belzer, The Chairman, Tribute
May 27, 2008
May 25, 2008
Which Way to the Front?
our nation's borders and ports are as open and porous as ever.
These open borders make the argument that "we are fighting them over there,
so we won't have to fight them over here" look...laughable.
...In fact, the last constitutional conflict that the U.S. military fought was World War II.
Virtually every war since has been a U.N. manufactured and manipulated conflict.
The war in Iraq is no different.
constitutional government, personal liberty, and national sovereignty."
('Course he ain't gonna make president, and you might not agree with everything on his website...still an essay worth reading.)
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 6:37 PM 0 comments
Labels: Chutzpah, Conspiracy Theories, Heroes
May 22, 2008
Freedom for Whom?
"What in the blooming world are freedom fries?"
That's when Bank of America Forecloses
on your house and builds a McDonald's there."
We Americans have been bamboozled;
deceived; denied; defaulted; robbed; repossessed;
dispossessed and all the rest!"
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 6:11 PM 0 comments
Labels: Chutzpah, Conspiracy Theories, Image Generator, Richard Belzer, Sarcasm
May 15, 2008
Has the Fat Lady sung yet??
It could be wrong.
-Dennis Miller
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 2:23 PM 0 comments
Labels: Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Image Generator, Sarcasm
May 13, 2008
Half & Half
Posted by Katiez Furry Mewz at 1:07 AM 1 comments