Oh, George Carlin

For some reason I never thought you'd die.  You always maintained the sharpest young-minded outlook on things.  In your last HBO Special you stooped and you coughed but you were as brilliant as ever.

I will remember you in a vein similar to Carl Sagan, someone who's replacement I doubt I'll ever see.  You both shaped my mental development and how I saw the world.

It always hits me when someone dies with whom I felt I related.  Karl Vonnegut was another.  They shared thoughts and ideas that never occurred to me before, and in that moment somehow I felt close to them, as if we were both now part of an elite group, privy to great enlightenment.

I never gave these people anything but in a way they gave me so much.

Life's not fair.