Reunion Tour

A couple of weeks ago, my beloved Mozza turned down a $5 million offer to reunite The Smiths for a single show, saying, “I would rather eat my own testicles than re-form The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.” To all of us thinking I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday, he seems to be sending a vague message that all the Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want-ing in the world isn’t going to make a reunion any more likely. Oh Well, I’ll Never Learn…but, dear Mozza, Whatever Happens, I Love You.

I will, however, take consolation in the possibility that, even if Moz and Marr aren’t, Gore is 'getting the band back together.'

Al Gore is getting the band back together. In a move that could inch him closer to another bid at the presidency in 2008, the former vice president has hired Roy Neel, a veteran of presidential politics, to help run his current campaign to raise awareness of global warming.

The WaPo's Richard Cohen added today, "[O]n paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008." Gore may be a man on a mission, but is the mission the 2008 campaign? Stay tuned.

Oh, I will. Come on, Al. All it takes is A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours.

A rush and a push and the land that
We stand on is ours
It has been before
So it shall be again
And people who are uglier than you and I
They take what they need, and just leave…
(This post dedicated to Roxanne.)