Carlin at Snowy Syracuse!

Our Big Outing this weekend was to sunny Syracuse (just kidding - it snowed the whole way there and back!), to see George Carlin strut his stuff at the Landmark Theatre. The Landmark is one of those wonderfully ornate 1920s-era movie theaters that you still find around Western New York (there's another in Buffalo - Shea's Performing Arts Center, we went to earlier this year, to see "Raiders of the Lost Ark"). Anyway, Carlin was not too shabby - better anyway than the first time we saw him, at Rochester's Auditorium. He was a bit more political-satirical this time (though perhaps still not satirical enough, given the crazy state of the world today). There was the Carlin mix of old stuff and new stuff - he was also pushing his new book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops. I like Carlin's outlook on the world - he's kind of a glass-is-half-empty guy when he observes what's going on around him. I can get behind that. Certainly nothing that's going on today has convinced me that Happy Days are Here Again. That's why I get depressed when Ms. Goddess and myself head down to the local coffee shop every Sunday to read the Sunday New York Times. How depressing - and I have to read this stuff! Might as well take the opportunity to get the occasional belly laugh out of all the misery and stupid shit going on around us!