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The Bono Files

U2 has won an important legal battle– nay, a landmark legal battle — championing the unassailable human and property rights of multimillionaire bands everywhere, and more specifically, U2.
The case, dating back to the band’s tour for The Joshua Tree, was filed against a former stylist, the excellently-named Lola Cashman.
U2 had been fighting with Ms [...]

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Elton John: Captain Tolerance

My friend Mark flipped me a link to a story in which Elton John proposes to “ban religion completely” because it’s intolerant and hateful to gay people.
I’m certainly not going to argue with him on that point — most of the major religions have a spotty record at best. But isn’t calling to ban something, [...]

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Meme in a Minuteâ„¢

God I love the web.
Genius from a BoingBoing reader named Brian Topping:

Adios, Rummy.

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Stink

Oh, this is too rich.
Sting said contemporary rock music is so stagnant that he prefers to sing 16th century English ballads.
Stagnant? This from the guy who has been producing pap like “Desert Rose” and biding his time in a mansion somewhere with a wife named Trudy and a bunch of horses. You can [...]

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