TOADSLY & ME


on hell. and other human suffering.

In response to yesterday's post about Lewis Black and the potentially damning effects of mixing two of my favorite f-words comes an email from a regular TWM reader -- we'll call him Toadsly, because that's what he calls himself -- intended to raise my spirits. And so it did. By the time I'd stopped laughing, I'd decided to post it here:

Cheer up! If perdition beckons, you’re headed for profaner’s hell where you’ll spend eternity mingling with sinners like Lewis Black, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce. I, on the other hand, will be sent to bad writer’s hell where I’ll probably rot in a dungeon chained to Randy Pausch as he regurgitates his “The Last Lecture” over and over and over… forever!

I believe it was the great philosopher William Joel who wrote, I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints; the sinners are much more fun. And he may be right. Or I may be crazy. But either way, if I'm gonna get to spend a good part of the afterlife -- you know, when I'm not lounging on a beach with family and friends -- hanging out with Lewis Black and George Carlin and Lenny Bruce, well...

...fucking count me in.

Posted: Sun - August 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM          

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