| So you know what I’ve been doing? |
| Going through my address book and crossing out the dead people. |
| You do that? |
| That’s a lot of fun, isn’t it? |
| It gives you a good feeling. |
| Kind of gives you a feeling of power, a superiority to have outlasted another old friend. |
| But you can’t do it too soon, you know? |
| You can’t do it too soon. |
| You can’t come running home from the funeral and get the book out, you know, and be looking through it. |
| You can’t do that. |
| A little time has to pass. |
| You have to let a little time go by. |
| I have a rule of thumb, six weeks. |
| If you’re a friend of mine and you’re in my book and you die, I leave you alone for an extra six weeks. |
| Six extra weeks in the book. |
| On the house. |
| It’s on me. |
| But after that, hey, facts are facts. |
| Fuck you. |
| You’re dead. |
| (Fart sound). |
| Out you fucking go. |
| You got to have standards, you know. |
| Now, these days, a lot of people don’t keep analog address books anymore. |
| They don’t want to be writing that stuff out longhand. |
| They’re in the computer age. |
| And they have an application in the computer called Outlook or Contacts or Address Book or something like that. |
| So they keep all the information in the computer, and they sync it up with their phone every day or every other day. |
| So now, instead of scratching out a name you get to delete the fuck. |
| And deleting someone is an even more powerful feeling than simply scratching out a name. |
| You know how to delete someone. |
| You select a name, highlight the person and then poof, straight into the trash. |
| Now, if it’s a really close friend of yours, you might not want to empty the trash for about six weeks. |
| Or…or if it’s a little too harsh for you, a little too harsh to delete an old friend, you can always create a new folder, a special folder for dead people. |
| You keep it on your desktop. |
| It’s kind of a digital purgatory. |
| And the nice thing is every now and then, you can open it up, and you can look inside. |
| And you can see the people in purgatory. |
| And you can move them all around, you know. |
| Move them around. |
| Put them in little groups. |
| Two people who didn’t get along in life, put them in the corner; |
| let them work it out. |
| Let them work it out in purgatory. |
| Or start a fight. |
| Have a big fight in purgatory. |
| That’s a lot of fun. |
| Nobody’s going to get hurt. |
| They’re all fucking dead anyway. |
| Then, you put them in a big formation and have a parade, the purgatory parade of dead people. |
| Ah, there’s a lot of fun you can have with a computer, so enjoy your digital selves. |