Johnny Carson, RIP (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Monday, 24 January 2005

Johnny Carson, RIP

I don’t have a lot to say about Johnny Carson’s passing Sunday at the age of 79—I was never a huge fan of his, always preferring David Letterman—but an interesting footnote of his life (that I only discovered a few days ago) was that he came to Millsaps College for part of his naval officer’s training in 1943. Small world and all that.

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