To mark the point where he'd have been getting free travel on the Merseyrail network, John Lennon's 65th birthday sees the release of a definitve compilation of his post-Beatle solo work. It's definitive as in "definitively proves how poor most of his half-assed work was". Double Fantasy? About as much fun as double math.
In other ringo-carried-them new, Paul McCartney is set to appear in a series of ads for Fidelity, a financial services company. Obviously, Paul must badly need the money.
Still, we look forward to his ideas for how we might make our money go further - we wonder if our idea, a redistributive tax system that would take 90% from multi-bilionaires shilling for a few extra bob and use it to fund hospitals, has occured to him?
"half-assed" and "math" in the same post as socialist rhetoric ... even Polly Toynbee is ideologically coherent by comparison.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, using words like "ideologically" at this hour of the day: it's not big and it's not clever.
ReplyDeleteFrom a woman with a hangover and consequently lowered tolerance for pretentious crap.
Stop it, now...
ReplyDeleteShouting obscenities from steeples indeed...
But Robin... there's no incoherence between Americanism and socialism... ask Woody Guthrie.
ReplyDeleteAnd Darren: Think yourself lucky there's not been a chance to shoehorn Bod Todd into a headline...