dagblog - Comments for "MORT & GEORGE & ROBIN"

Oh I found this on youtube

Richard Day — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:53:43 +0000

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Oh I found this on youtube comparing Williams and Carlin about golf:

I am glad I made you laugh.

trkingmomoe — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:54:11 +0000

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I am glad I made you laugh. I am unwinding from sewing school uniforms. I should go to sleep but to tired.

Hi Momo!

Richard Day — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:49:28 +0000

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Hi Momo!

hahahahahah

GREAT COMMENTS.

That is for sure, including an old friend back after a couple of years.

I miss Robin but we shall never really miss Robin.

I just discovered that four films, starring this fellow will premier this year.

I will see them in the next few years, but who cares?

I got time.

hahahahah

Life is tough with or without

trkingmomoe — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:38:44 +0000

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Life is tough with or without drugs, with or without booze or with or without depression.

You certainly have that right.

He is a public figure that entered our hearts and we are all grieving for him.

This has been a good read including the comments.

You are an inspiration to me

Richard Day — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:33:47 +0000

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You are an inspiration to me Mr. Smith.

No kidding here.

The top of my game is....two feet. hahahaha

I have never accomplished anything of note my entire life. hahahahah

Your 'stop slouching' brings me back to my daddy's mama who always yelled this to my brothers and myself. hahahah

Mr. Smith, I am serious in telling you that you have served a purpose in keeping me alive.

Keep on keepin on for chrissakes.

You keep me in line.

It sounds stupid to the outsider.

But you somehow keep me keepin on and keep me away from self indulgence.

I do not know how else to describe it.

Again, you and Ducky have witnessed things in person, I could only dream about.

You are a goooood man and have much to say.

You know I was thinkin about this old song and thought of you, you have much to say.

SO SAY IT!

Wonderful piece, DD! You

MrSmith1 — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 04:59:49 +0000

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Wonderful piece, DD! You really are at the top of your game.

My impression of Mort Sahl will always be of a young, cocky guy coming onstage with the day's newspaper and doing comic riffs drawn from the headlines. That takes a lot of moxie. I've always loved standup comedians and studied them. I wanted to be one at one point, but life took me in another direction. I still think about it every so often, even now. My opening line would be, (after slowly walking my Spondylitis-fused body up to the mike) "I know what you're all thinking ... I know what you want to tell me ... "Stop slouching!" Either that or ... "So I said to the genie, for my last wish, I want what every middle-aged guy losing his sexual vitality wants, I want to be stiff sll the time ... Son of a bitch gave me arthritis!" Ba-rump-BUMP!

Well, thanks.

Austin Train — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 04:03:13 +0000

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Well, thanks.

You've always provided good food for thought.

I don't have awards to award, just comments now and then. Even if a break of several years falls into the middle of things.

Enough of that. I think I'm back.

God I hope this does not

Richard Day — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 02:12:26 +0000

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God I hope this does not

Richard Day — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 02:11:28 +0000

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God I hope this does not sound trite but I hereby render unto you the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of you from all of me.

WONDERFUL.

Much better than my post!

Thank you for taking the time.

Nicely done, as always, Mr.

Austin Train — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:41:02 +0000

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Nicely done, as always, Mr. Day.

And to take a look into your musings...Sahl, the timely observationalist, needs nothing more than today's paper for as much material as we can absorb in a given listen.

I missed the chance to see him a few years ago, asked a contact if I could work for free just to be there, and there was no room in the room - not to mention I was not likely hip enough for any room Sahl entered.

I'm glad he's still around and hoping he takes ongoing good care of himself.

Carlin, he came from his anger, which was directed at the absurdities we all endure as part of our admission fee to life in general. He had his troubles, to be sure, and largely overcame them, only to lose the fight with his own damaged heart.

I understand his vitriol. Hell, I endorse some of it. Yes, it crossed into his being an undifferentiated misanthrope often enough, still, there's plenty to get upset about of late, don't you think?

Here is a 1980 interview with him. Quite the character, even with the ongoing anger, I'd say, and with quite a lot of character in his own right.

As for Robin Williams, no one since the combined Marx Brothers has been able to reduce me to helpless laughter either so often or so quickly. That he fought his demons to a draw for a long time to bring that wild genius to us all is a tribute to near-indomitable spirit.

When I heard yesterday that he'd been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's, things became very clear very rapidly.

It's a terrible thing to contemplate, such an active mind being reduced to imprisonment in a no-longer-functioning body as it might have progressed. For a (not purely, though still often) physical comic, and an actor, it must have appeared worse than a simple death sentence.

Can you imagine that antic mind beset by tremors, rigidity, and freezing? Losing his power of speech? Facing the cognitive impairments that often follow?

For someone with the inner conflicts Williams had, with the outlet he found that made his presence so magical for those of us who saw him anywhere, doing anything, the thought alone must have been unendurable - knowing that it would gradually and visibly end.

Rather than face the inevitable decline, he opted out.

As Chris Rock might say, I don't agree, but I understand.