Posted on 01/18/2016 9:59:21 AM PST by rey
Not a Fan
by Theodore Dalrymple
January 16, 2016
One should not speak ill of the dead, of course, especially of the recently dead, but it does not follow that one should speak well of them, or speak of them at all. Personally I was astonished at the amount of coverage given to the death of David Bowie. One might have thought he was really a figure of world historical importance such as David Beckham or Leonard DiCaprio.
On the day after his death, the supposedly serious newspaper that I take most often when I am in Britain, The Guardian, ran a special 12-page supplement on his life and activity, as well as five pages in its normal section. There have been articles about him on the two subsequent days. I wait patiently for the tide to turn.
(Excerpt) Read more at takimag.com ...
I run NoScript through Firefox, then at the end of the day I run SuperAnti Spyware - cleans out everything. Never a problem with DM anymore. The UK news sites are a hoot though.
Nice point.
it is sarcasm- if it was to be any more plain...
he should have lumped a khardashian into his article
lol
bttt
Could have meant that tongue-in-cheek.
I see now that the article comes from “Taki Magazine”. That more or less explains everything.
A plague o’ both their houses.
Twinkie can’t sing at all now. Twinkie also can’t play
any musical instrument. Twinkie can’t dance nor nothing.
Fang idolizes anyone who can do any of those things. Fang
is getting on Twinkie’s last nerve! :O(
I gather Bowie was one of the great performers of my generation. He was always there in the background, portrayed as a minor deity. Upon his demise I listened to some of his work, realizing that I’d practically never heard what he’d done, only that he was out there and very important in the niche he occupied.
Kudos to David Bowie, being wildly successful, being a true achiever in his occupation. I can understand the prolonged adulation & distress among those who followed him
Success does not, however, mean everyone knew who he was beyond mere celebrity status.
John Lennon was much, much worse.
“Not a Fan (Bowie)”
I didn’t much care for his music or lifestyle, but his knife design is awesome. /jk
Liked his knife too. Surprised to learn he just died. I thought he had died at the Alamo but it seems the experience caused him to make some rather awful music.
Bowie introduced weird sex stuff to American teens.
That’s why the elites love him.
It’s like Bill Clinton was to politics.
That was a joke, son.
But yet, for the last twenty years of his life, he settled down and became a devoted husband and family man, as if to say, I tried everything else, but in the end, nothing beats a traditional family.
I came here to say just that. If he takes the Guardian seriously, then I don’t take him seriously.
“One might have thought he was really a figure of world historical importance such as David Beckham or Leonard DiCaprio.”
Perhaps that was sarcasm? It’s hard to tell, I admit.
I just learned, to my extreme surprise that hubby isn’t a Bowie fan, at all, in any way. As he pointed out to me: you know I don’t have any Bowie in my [pretty substantial, probably over 1000 albums] music collection.
But, I must say he didn’t then go on to belabor how much he thought Bowie stunk.
This article seems rude. David Bowie was an artist (maybe) and entertainer (certainly) an awful lot of people liked him an awful lot, so if you didn’t why say anything?
Not so sure. Look at his video Darkstar. Also, the tribute stuff he does for Freddy Mercury is odd. I would not consider Mercury family material.
“The UK news sites are a hoot though.”
They are complete virus ridden though, it’s really like germ warfare or something.
David B was good for one thing: that "Wham Bamm Thank-you Maam! line. That was fun in a conflicted dark way for this 16 yo male in 1972.
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