The second coming of Jesus Carlin
By Jethro Maddox Almost 20 years ago, I began collecting these finger puppets you could buy on line. You could get Gandhi, Shakespeare, Einstein, or Dorothy Parker, among others. The likenesses were not half bad. Except for one. The Jesus puppet was a dead ringer for George Carlin, the famously potty mouthed comedian and social critic, who went on home and claimed his reward in 2008. I found this disturbing. Two of my favorite things used to be my bible, […]
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