I get "The Note" from the ABC News website, which is basically a good daily roundup of political news and especially political writing on the web. [Archives]
The got my attention today (May 27, 2003) with an interesting if obscure headline:
Well, If You Must, You Must
A Girl Woke Up In a Naked Light and Said "Oh No Not Again"*
It took me seriously ten solid minutes of hunting to find where the asterisk and connected explanatory link were a couple of thousand words later, but I already knew. They were quoting Elvis Costello. They weren't just quoting Elvis, but from a verse of an obscure album track, "Sleep of the Just". That kind of thing gets my attention. Obsessive, who me?
Reading the note, I still cannot for the life of me figure out what the connection of these words of the king are to the content of the ABC page. My best theory is that the writer has had a good long weekend jamming on King of America, and just went with it. I can dig that.
It's probably just as good that they didn't continue with the next line, "He even looks like her brother in the army, but she never mentions him." That would just be taking them places they might not be able to get back from.
Article comments
1 - Amber Nussbaum
Haha awesome. Hey did you see him cover Patsy Cline's "Crazy" on that Willie Nelson birthday TV special. It was the hotness.
2 - sonny
amber, tho patsy cline made 'crazy' famous, willie nelson wrote it.
3 - SFC SKI
When I was working nightshift back in the US, I would watch ABC News from dusk til dawn, because at around 0300, the broadcasters and the guys who write the news blurbs along the botom of the screen would get really goofy.
It was almost as if the stuff was written in order to provoke a response, maybe the writer wanted to know if anyone else was up at that ungodly hour. I don't think all of the show is prerecorded repeats of news.
I liked that news show better than the daytime broadcasts.