Thanks For That
Bloomberg, not exactly the “This Week in WCW” type of news source, toward the bottom of this story really helps us out by explaining a very obvious Alice in Wonderland reference.
Poor David Rosenberg actually used Alice in Wonderland in his quote, and they explained about the rabbit hole. It might be remotely possible that a lowbrow news source might need to explain a reference to a rabbit hole as invoking Alice in Wonderland, but the other way around, guys? I mean, there’s a Disney movie and it’s in Kingdom Hearts, for goodness sakes.
Funny, because on my way home from work today I heard Immortal Technique’s deft one-liner:
My metaphors are dirty like herpes but harder to catch.
Which makes me think of my actual favorite rap one-liner, by our now disgraced friend Kanye:
Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push miracle whips.
Explanation at that level is kind of like putting a Scotsman on American television with subtitles. I mean, if you couldn’t get it, maybe at some point you aren’t meant to get it.
But, seriously, Kanye dissing Taylor Swift was pretty harsh.
The above paragraph was getting ready to vent my frustration with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse (yeah, I deleted it because it was a bit of a non-sequitur as it was), but then I was checking Wikipedia to make sure Norah was spelled with an “H” at the end, only to find out that (1) her real first name is Geethali, and (2) she is the love child of Ravi Shankar.
As in the guy who played with the Beatles. No wonder she won so many Grammys without being popular or particularly talented. Ah, I got my dig in anyway! I don’t care how sophisticated listening to her might make me, that music is just depressing!
It seems like football coaches get the same “child of a legend” help. You have a lot of serious football geniuses who sit in the glass booth their whole career, and then all of a sudden Legend Junior is out there with a clipboard and a headset. Must be frustrating.