richard pryor

Damn. Richard Pryor died yesterday at 65 years old. This bums me out. Pryor has always been one of my favorite commedians. Any that's been around me in a non-work context knows how fond I am of the sketch "acid" on his bicentennial nigger album. "Some white dude gave me this shit and said it was gonna make me trip - man I ain't going nowhere without my luggage" which rapidly evolves into a quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's a great skit, funny and contemporary (for 1976) at the same time it's timeless. And of course edgy.

I guess the pod bay doors have finally closed.