So I’ve been out in meetings all day, which kept me from receiving the flurry of media information regarding Steve Irwin’s death. It also kept me from the various tasteless (and funny) parodies. I decided to watch the Larry King interview just a bit ago, which seemed even more distasteful than the parodies. King essentially made his best friend cry, and then kept pummeling him with ridiculous questions. It was pretty apparent that Larry didn’t give much of a shit when his opening comment was “John Stainton is Steve…. er, WAS Steve Irwin’s manager.” The poor bastard looked right at his shoes to fight off the tears.
We’ve all gotta go sometime, but I sincerely thought that Steve Irwin would go being swallowed by a boa constrictor or torn apart by a crocodile. Getting killed by something that commonly annoys surfers is a pretty tame death. That’d be like Johnny Knoxville dying on the set of Jackass 3 from a bee sting. And not while wearing a giant bee beard, he would be strapped to one of those spinning wheels while someone tosses knives at his crotch when the bumblebee mildly flies up and stings his ass off of the mortal coil. I appreciate it when irony goes in the “more funny” direction, not towards the “meh, lame.”
In the words of Larry King, in regards to his sad death: “Keep on keepin’ on.” Well said, you crazy fuck. Well said.
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