That's brilliant
What an excellent way to sell more gig shirts.

Morrisey seems to have turned into Frank, the Dennis Hopper character.

I've heard of Hopper, but not Morrisey or Frank. How do you do it?

I used to know a Frank in California, who served the most stupendous Chili Sizes and ran an illegal book on the NFL from his bar, but I don't think that's who you have in mind.

That Charming Man offers, "Heineken? **** that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!".


Morrisey once sang in a popular music ensemble, the Smiths. You can gain some measure of their studied ennui from the name of the guitarist John ny Marr, though the singer was even more miserable. I liked them but, really, if teen angst is your trade, you're should hope you die before you get old.

Having some backing singers wear "We Hate Will & Kate" t-shirts is pretty small beer for a man who, at the height of The Smiths fame in 1986, released an album entitled "The Queen is Dead."

He seems so faded now, perhaps he was prophetically happy in the haze.

Still, I have the albums and cassettes, I play them now and then and the couplet "the rain falls hard on a humdrum town, this town has got me down" comes to me whenever I'm obliged to look at Mississauga. I'll forgive lot for a memorable lyric, indeed, I'd still listen to Snap! if they were now ministers in the Harper administration.

I don't know about Missisauga, but the "humdrum town" in those lyrics is my home town, Dundee.

The lyrics are from "William, It Was Really Nothing", which was written by Morrissey after an alleged fling with the late, great Billy Mackenzie, from Dundee.

No surprises there....Mr Negative in spades. Surprised he did not top himself decades ago......

I'll give you the same line I give anyone who asks me anything about the monarchy:

I didn't vote for them!

Republic! Republic! Republic!