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Genius Speaks For Itself

By Jayson Vantuyl on June 27, 2008Leave a commentPosts

As I’m sure everyone has heard already, George Carlin died this week (picture kindly borrowed from Wikipedia). We all choose to remember the people that influence us in different ways. George is easy to memorialize because so much of his work is so faithfully recorded. I was able to find my favorite one of his routines on YouTube. I’ve included it here for your viewing. Make sure you listen all the way through. He insults a lot of people early on, but if you listen to his message, you’ll see that his message, while dark, actually transcends most of theRead more →

A Sad Goodbye

By Jayson Vantuyl on May 3, 20081 commentPosts

For those of you who haven’t heard, Daniel Joseph Dougherty died Friday from complications from his cancer. The specifics probably don’t matter. For those who want to know, his heart was stopped by a blood clot, possibly from bleeding within his heart. The story I got was muddled. Ironically, I was actually looking at plane tickets to go see him shortly before he died. He had requested that we make it out so that he could see us and his namesake, David Joseph, before things got any worse. As you might imagine, this has hit Alicia and I pretty hard.Read more →