This Is This

Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

So penned Don Henley in Boys of Summer, his 1980’s ode to the fading spirit of 1960’s.

Well, out on the road yesterday, I saw gansta-style spinning chrome hubcaps (rims to my biatches) on a Renault Espace.

Somehow pimping up a French people mover isn’t going to make an affluent middle class family look “street”.

What next? MC Solar panels? 50 Centimes? Reiki Healer Dre? Xzibit (at the Tate Modern)?

The Espace is a car for a midlife crisis. You look in the wing mirror and it says “YOU MAY NOT HAVE ACHIEVED AS MUCH AS YOU HAD HOPED.”

But my hat goes off to them for trying to keep it old school while dropping the kids off at their school.

Pimped up people mover. Please. It’s like a fishnet burkha.

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Three Word Story

“You don’t understand your power over the common man,” said Alistair Campbell.

The words seemed to echo endlessly around their cell. Digging a tunnel had proved fruitless and oddly phallic. Finding a vein had been the laborious task ahead, but they opted to forge ahead while singing “We Are The Champions”.

It wasn’t until they stopped singing

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