Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Smug Pools
I may have dreamed this but strange things happen in transit and Philadelphia. Wandering through the airport, I paused by a TV screen to see a spectacle so shocking, so appalling, so awful, so stupid, so shattering, so undermining of one's equanimity that I actually looked around for somebody with whom I could share my horror. But it was late and the enormous room was empty. So, 30 hours later, I shall tell you. It was on CNN, two men were sitting opposite each other in a studio, discussing stuff. One was Bono and the other was George Clooney. The subject of their discussion was their mutual wonderfulness. Treacle-like smugness flooded out of the screen and formed dark pools around my feet.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Was it that head to head thing like on Alas Smith & Jones? I'm sure it was a dream but then what does it mean? And is it pronounced Bone-oh or Bonn-oh?
ReplyDeletePosts like this are the reason why I keep coming back. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteAnd if combined to make a Blarman of smug, what would one call them I wonder ... Georgio B. Looney, who knows. And in America, there may be well be some "no win no fee" lawyers who specialize in recovering damages for the unimaginable agony and mental distress experienced by smug victims.
ReplyDeleteI think you had a jet-lag induced hallucination....
ReplyDeleteAAARGGHHHH!!!! I saw it too! It was one of the most horrible sights in the history of horrible things. (And later, some bald Democrat guy with a southern accent read a paean of praise to Brad Pitt).
ReplyDeleteYou're right, there's far too much mutual appreciation in the media. We British are a weird lot.
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