As I said, I’m into the music of the Acoustic Guitar

I have quite good recollections of that time, and as I recall, Diana’s star as the darling of the media, had gone far past its peak, and in some cases, they were busily tearing her apart for her sins…infidelity, excessive consumption, shallow vanity…you know, the usual tales of human failings that just happens to sell more copy, who would have thought…go figure, those bastions of our collective virtue turn out to be nothing more than street shysters chasing the almighty buck. My, how short peoples memories are.

Then of course, Diana dies…the tragedy, the drama, the emotional torment of millions, and above all, the loss of future copy, (but of course they’ve even found a way round that little inconvenience). Boy has that all been milked for every penny since then. Call me cynical, but people die every day, the passing of the vast number, being totally unmentioned. The collective wailing and gnashing of teeth has been a spectacle to behold.

To me, she was just a normal person, blessed with the fortune of pleasing looks, and an accompanying good luck that went with her. She happened to be in the right place, at the right time; her only talent, her only true accomplishment, was a overwhelming passionate love affair with the cameras, and brother, was she free with her favours there. She parlayed that shy act into an insatiable attention of the masses, for whose benefit one might ask (?)

Ligneus, I’m a little bit more cynical than you about peoples gullibility and utility of this passion play, for I do not grant them quite the freedom of action your position implies, for yes, while indeed, we are all free agents, it would seem, far, far too many, are too eager to walk in the opinions of others, and simply drink this milksop tale of passion and woe, to the exclusion of the hard business of thinking for themselves: is it all really that hard?

To me, the whole thing smelled and still smells of ‘Bread and Circuses’

As to Obama, well, if they could make a fortune off of a fairytale princess, just think what they may make off of a Messiah. And the beauty of it all, think of all the contented souls out there, whose lives of vacuous hollowness, have now been filled with the milk of human ‘Hope’, shame it’s curdled milk, but who’ll notice, eh! Well, until the stomach churns.

As to your enforced visit to coventry by the ladies at the old folks home, I would have thought that that was something of a blessing, you know, the release from endless, meaningless chatter for few days

I guess I’m just a grumpy old man…ah well, we all have our crosses to bear.

Hi JAR, It was Tony of course who coined the ‘People’s Princess’ guff. I was in UK that summer, I spent three months in Bournemouth, ‘UK’s Florida’, and took a summer job as dish washer in an old folks home. [I should post what I wrote about it at the time] Anyway, one morning about a week before Diana was killed as it happens, the head girl there asked me if I liked Camilla. I said not particularly. She was pleased with that. Then I stupidly said, I don’t like Diana that much either. She and a couple of the other girls didn’t speak to me for at least three days!!
The following Diana attracted has some similarities to that of Obama, it’s all advertising and hype just like sellling Coke or a Hollywood starlet, and people see in it and take from it whatever they want.

As for Elton, never has a man(?) traded so successfully upon his past reputation as he

Ah well, Charles at least got two better sons than you would have expected or that he deserved so it’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good.

Let us hope they don’t duplicate his love of islam.

The word “irrelevant” comes to mind for some reason.

And thanks for the nod, Zee!