Posted 8:15 AM by Gene

During the late unlamented SUPER BORE the sports hacks agreed Mick and the Stones should have left for a geriatric center. Had the Robert "Over the" Hilburns been there they'd have unleashed the G word (GENIUS) and the M word (MASTERPIECE), with the extra-added attraction of the C word (CLASSIC). We saw this before: when LUKE SPIELBERG'S LET US HAVE PEACE opened the ad-blurbists loved it and the pundits hated it. Why such opposite extreme opinions? Perhaps because most of the blurbists have only been at their jobs for 200 years. (The pundits, too, but for once they had the advantage thanks to their different location.)

We for the likes of us cannot understand what is so GREAT about modern pop "music." As with that fellow who licked the EDWARD R. MURROW of COMEDY, we've tried and tried and tried to discern its greatness. All we can make out are screaming and posturing, and a bunch of hacks telling us this is genius. We're tired of cultists insisting we're in a platinum age of entertainment, but so long as the biz insists on slanting the news it will make up for that by selling the junk.