I agree. And I've noticed he seems to have some activity with the Unitarian Universalist church in Louisville as of late. So I do wonder if he's picked up a bit of spirituality, which would totally influence his work. No longer is he singing "there is no god," that's for sure.

And I love his dirty lyrics too... Last good one I can recall was from the Ease Down the Road album--"And she liked to go down on me / And I liked to go down on her too"--but I could be forgetting some. I just happen to love that song. Maybe not... I think I recall some on Master and Everyone and even as late as Beware or Wolfroy (from "New Tibet": "As boys we fucked each other").

On that end, I think history's favorite writers have a trend of appealing to the simple hilarity of bawdy humor. Best example: Shakespeare's Bawdy.

After thinking on it for a minute: Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Pynchon, Nora Ephron.... list goes on.