{"id":116,"date":"2004-12-08T22:40:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T06:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/hicks\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T06:40:40","slug":"hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not that kind of hick, Bill Hicks. I’m currently in the midst of a Bill Hicks marathon. I just finished reading American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story<\/a>. I followed that up with a viewing of Bill Hicks Live – Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian<\/a>, the new DVD from Ryko.<\/p>\n

I think I was vaguely aware of him during my college years at UT in the late 80’s\/early 90’s, but I never really got into him. I must’ve barely missed the infamous censorship episode on The Late Show with David Letterman. I went to one of the taping that fall. I can’t even remember who the guests were the night I attended the show. I was also living in New York when he gave his final performance in January, 1994.<\/p>\n

It seems like I kept just barely missing him over that 5 year period and only really became aware of him at Ethan’s recommendation upon returning to Austin a little more than a year after his death. It feels even more eerie now that I’ve read his biography. We share the same birthday. He was exactly 10 years older than me. Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not that kind of hick, Bill Hicks. I’m currently in the midst of a Bill Hicks marathon. I just finished reading American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story. I followed that up with a viewing of Bill Hicks Live – Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian, the new DVD from Ryko. I think I was vaguely […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fonJ-hicks","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}