In conversation yesterday, I quoted a funny line from the previous night’s SNL and I felt like a real normie.
How I Fucked Up at Politics (My Patti Smith Story)
In Bono’s new book, he has a lot of very kind things to say about poet/singer/songwriter Patti Smith. She’s been a major influence on Bono’s life and work, as she has been for so many artists across various disciplines for half a century, but every time I see her name, all I can think about […]
I was just looking at the State Department’s website for information about passport renewal and this line from their FAQ is funny out of context: Why not? Seems like a pretty good solution to the problem. The answer, btw, is basically “it depends”.
Use Your Wordle Guesses In A Sentence –11/21/22
“If you’re patient with FLEAS you can TRAIN them to eat PIZZA and survive exposure to most ACIDS” – a popular AXIOM
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with the bad guy’s other gun?
I went straight from Bono’s audiobook to John Ross Bowie’s audiobook, “No Job For a Man”. Oddly, they both say the exact same things about The Ramones. They really do. But there’s not too much overlap after that, except that Mikhail Gorbachev and Luciano Pavarotti also used to drop in on John unexpectedly. Sounds like […]
This is quite a lede, as we say in the journo biz:
I knew the audience was going to be pretty star-studded at last night’s Bono show in LA and boy was I right. Obama administration economic adviser Gene Sperling was in the house! Holy shit. And maybe Norman Lear? I don’t know. Bono closed the show by saying “Goodnight, Norman Lear”. Maybe that’s just the way […]
Obviously.
There’s a very brief post-credits reappearance of Bono at the end of his audiobook, fyi, and it really put a smile on my face. I miss the book now that it’s over. I could do with a Bono podcast actually. It could be like Robert Plant’s Digging Deep in which a sycophantic fan delights at […]
