R.I.P. George Carlin
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.
“He was a genius and I will miss him dearly,” Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.
The actor Ben Stiller called Carlin “a hugely influential force in stand-up comedy. He had an amazing mind, and his humor was brave, and always challenging us to look at ourselves and question our belief systems, while being incredibly entertaining. He was one of the greats.” (more)
I just lost 2 more cats.
For anyone keeping tabs, that’s 4 since I started this blog. 4 in two years. Blah. That sucks.
My mom had to put down my 2 kitties Lucy and Smokey. Smokey was 17 and started to go downhill real fast. Lucy got sick very quickly this year as well and wasn’t getting better (she was about 11 or so). I’m mad at my mom for not warning me that she might be putting Lucy down.
She always does that. The few times we’ve had to put some animals down for being very old and very sick, she wouldn’t tell me until after. And I would always get mad. You think she’d learn by now!!
So that just leaves one cat- Eli (yes we named him after Eli Manning).
But we’ll probably hunt for a Mainecoon kitten this summer, so that makes me happy.
I’m gonna miss my Lucy and Smokey though :*(
This is Lucy sleeping 2 summers ago:
I don’t have a picture of Smokey 
I’ve lost another cat to tragedy. Remember Sophie?
Well, my mom just called me right now to tell me our baby, Quilla, died today. Somehow last night when my mom came home from parent-teacher conferences, Quilla got caught underneath the garage door as it was going down. The next morning my parents found her and rushed her to the animal hospital, and she wasn’t dead, but she was so severly injured, they decided to put her down. She was only like9 or so. We still had so much time with her.
And it’s getting to be the time of the year that we got her. We got her in December, around Christmas, as she was my mom’s Christmas present. She was a purebred Maine coon, which we adore in our family. My parents, me, and a friend of mine went out to Bethlehem PA to pick our kitten from the litter. I forget why we chose her, but I’m so glad we did! I wrapped her up in my mom’s winter hat and held her during the ride back home.
Maine coons are known for being rather large, but Quilla was so tiny and petite, only about 6 pounds soaking wet. She was such a love bug though. So cuddly and sweet. She’d always sleep right next to me whenever I would go home. She even tried to get in on some post-coital affection when Match came to visit me recently.
Here’s a horrible camera phone picture of her, but it’s all I have of her digitally. I’ll have to scan some print ones I have.
I’m going to miss her so much.
Avah | June 23, 2008
