TOTALLY OFF: Who died...

Paul Mather paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU
Thu Mar 21 08:55:05 EST 2002


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:12:38AM -0500, Brian Halligan wrote:
=> K Henderson wrote:
=>
=> > and made Bono the Emperor of the friggin' universe?!
=>
=> [Hilarious rant snipped]
=>
=> One of my college professors always spoke about Bono/U2, their perceived
=> clout in the world of politics and their empathy for the downtrodden. He
=> tried to tell us how it was all just a way to sell more albums. Needless to
=> say, he made a lot of young, female Bono fans very upset! ;-)

Which just goes to show that no matter what one does, someone will
manage to see bad in it.  Hooray for curmudgeons everywhere!

BTW, I didn't realise the Oscars were mandatory viewing.  Is this some
case of "we control the horizontal; we control the vertical" going on
here that I don't know about?

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
 deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
        --- Frank Vincent Zappa



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