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WritingOfGeorgeCarlin

The comedian George Carlin died this past Sunday. I found this article in Psychology Today (of all places). It was probably the last lengthy interview anyone did with Carlin.

The interview concentrates on Carlin as a writer. I thought the writers among us would find this interesting. Carlin - I remember him as the Hippie Dippie Weather man - was quite organized in his note taking a filing.

See

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200806/george-carlins-last-interview

DwaynePhillips 2008.06.25

And, BTW, you can use those 7 words on the AYE wiki if you like, as long as you use them tastefully. - JerryWeinberg 2008.06.26

I finished reading the interview of George Carlin. Two things hit me towards the end that may fit with AYE participants:

• "...I discovered what I really had become was a writer who performs his own material..I think of myself as a writer...I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision."
• "And computers changed my life, the fact that you can move text as easily as you can move text...And I love the feeling I get in my gut when I'm watching on the computer screen that is close to being realized the way I would like it to be."
• Incidentally, Carlin said that he was a Mac user.

DwaynePhillips 2008.06.27

I try to come in through the side door. One of the voguish terms, which is so repellant to me, “thinking outside the box.” To settle for that kind of language is embarrassing. But that's a very useful picture. I try to come in through the side door, the side window, to come in from a direction they’re not expecting, to see something in a different way. That's the job that I give myself. So, how can I talk about something eminently familiar to them, on my terms, in a new way, that engages their imagination?

-- JohannaRothman 2008.06.27