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Thursday, 10 June 2004
Car big, ego biggerOh dear. The
Sunday Telegraph gives* Timmy Blair a $140,000 Volkswagen Touareg to review
and he gives his editor a smarmy piece
on the new golden age! I suppose it
must be if Tim can get a gig like that. Timmy, in all his populist wisdom, figures a car review
is as good a place as any for some suburbanite rednecking (“halts progress
more effectively than a Greens-controlled Senate”), but soon returns to
full-throttle drooling. Has there been a more gushing review since Nicole
Kidman’s Blue Room performance was described as “pure theatrical
Viagra”? I swear something hit me on
the cheek while reading this abomination online, and it wasn’t a drip from
the ceiling. It’s a car for God’s sake, Tim. Not the second coming. “To celebrate Earth Day,” Timmy typed
some weeks back, “ this week I picked up a Volkswagen Touareg.” Only when commenters congratulated him on
his purchase did he quietly admit it was only a review car! That was embarrassing for me, let alone
Timmy. Which brings to mind this pompous
pronouncement some months ago: (baritone voice, please) “This week
I set up a deal,” to send him to the US to write about the Democrat and
Republic national conventions. Go
Timmy, you Bondi Junction SUV-driving (return to dealer by Tuesday) media
mogul! While we’re at it, how about the in-all-seriousness
footnote on Andrea Harris’s ingratiating Twisted Spinster blog: “this
site is a subsidiary of Spleenville”.
Funny, but a search of Florida’s business names index reveals S &
P Legal Nurse Consultants Inc and Splendid Co but, shockingly, no
Spleenville! It leaves one little to do but kneel and prey that the
Spleenville empire’s dodgy business practices don’t lead to another scandal
of Enron/WorldCom proportions. |