My Farewell to Robin Williams

[deutsey]

from the Church of the Latter-Day Dude (a religion revering the Dude from The Big Lebowski):

http://dudespaper.com/no-frame-of-reference-22.html/

...I am going to thank Robin Williams here for all the laughs he gave to all of us during his journey across the sands of time.

From Mork and Mindy to his unbridled stand-up and various movie roles to his charity concerts and USO tours abroad, he sure did make us laugh (and think and sometimes even cry) to beat the band.

In doing that for so many of us, I see Robin Williams as a High Priest of our Dudeist ethos, administering the holy sacrament of laughter to all us sinners lost in an uptight world. In the Church of the Latter-Day Dude (as with our compeers in philosophical Taoism), the holy ha-ha is high in the running in our bag of sacraments. As Great Dude in History Mark Twain observed:

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

[Tobin S.]

1. That's very nice.

I think Robin would be flattered.

[locks]

2. Thanks!

Wish we could have seen Robin and Mark Twain together.

[nomorenomore08]

4. Hey, if they could make a 2Pac hologram for Coachella, why not this too?

[SwankyXomb]

5. Because the hologram company would sue the pants off them, evidently.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/homer-simpson-hologram-at-comic-725830

[nomorenomore08]

6. The licensing rights may prove prohibitively expensive, true. n/t

[nomorenomore08]

3. "Administering the holy sacrament of laughter to all us sinners lost in an uptight world."

So beautifully put. Thank you for this.