Class Clown by George Carlin – ‘known for his dark comedy and reflections on politics, English, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects…’ – I have enjoyed this rather short act, especially since I think I may identify with the Class Clown – or others will, at World Class, the club where we meet – this is where I promote my own ‘gig’: you have more than five (they may be more than six by now) thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest books of All Time site and others, plus notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Class Clown by George Carlin – ‘known for his dark comedy and reflections on politics, English, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects…’ – I have enjoyed this rather short act, especially since I think I may identify with the Class Clown – or others will, at World Class, the club where we meet – this is where I promote my own ‘gig’: you have more than five (they may be more than six by now) thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest books of All Time site and others, plus notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

 

9 out of 10

 

Humor is one of the ten ingredients of positivity, as identified by one of the best experts, Barbara Fredrickson, in her psychology classic Positivity https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/positivity-by-barbara-fredrickson-life.html the others would be awe, interest, inspiration, hope, pride, serenity, joy, gratitude and love

 

Ergo, it is essential to listen to – or read, maybe watch on YouTube, the latter might be even better, for you get to see the body language of the comedian, I just listened to this show – jocularity, albeit this performer is more serious, he talks about values for instance, and that brings me to another psychology classic

The Six Pillars of Self Esteem https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/six-pillars-of-self-esteem-by-nathaniel.html by Nathaniel Branden - you have to have values and keep to them, or else you have nothing to respect in yourself, or maybe very little – this is what I say at the club, when I show ‘intolerance’

 

George Carlin talks about religion and he appears to ‘attack it’, he talks about limbo – which may be cancelled, he jokes – and that was the take of the aforementioned Nathaniel Branden in another one of his books, where he maintains that being religious is bad, since one believes in the afterlife and does not pay attention to this one

The notion that we have an Almighty figure https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/psychological-effects-of-religion-by.html watching over us always, ready to punish the middle aged man for his sins as a teenager, masturbating for instance, can be crushing, words to that effect, I may have a different point of view

 

Mohamed Ali is brought up – his job was to ‘beat people up, but he draw the line at killing people, which is what the government wanted him to do, in Vietnam’  the lines are funny – it is not what I have put in here but this is the gist of it – Cassius Clay did not want to be enlisted for the war in Vietnam and he had to suffer for it

The Americans have a leader now – a calamity – who had skipped that war, because of ‘bone spurs’, actually he was rich and could avoid the fate of the others, who could not afford such an excuse, nonetheless, that is among the least of the problems associated with this catastrophe, I better stop here

 

To tend with, I will just put in something about today – hence, a spoiler alert, if you are still here – December 1, 2025 (this is posted on the second, but written on Monday) we celebrate the National Day – and it is also my sister’s birthday – and that was an occasion for some slapstick – first, I went to the club early

I thought this is going to be an usual program, opening at 6 am, only they did not, it was only 8 for access, and then I thought I will go in for some massage, and that did not work, however, I could run for an hour, but later, tried to use the bicycle to get home, like always, but this time, I became a prisoner in the huge crowds, gathered to watch the parade, the Humvees, APV, armored vehicles and what not, and I don’t see why they do that, all the access was impossible, avenues were blocked for the event, but then the side streets were unavailable…silly nationalists

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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