http://bellagerens.com/2009/06/21/yeah-all-right-more-memage/ inde vides agilem bella gerentem Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bellagerens.com/2009/06/21/yeah-all-right-more-memage/comment-page-1/#comment-387 David Gillies Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:33:47 +0000 http://bellagerens.wordpress.com/?p=322#comment-387 The Diana thing: I was spark out after a lengthy session the night before. The phone rang at 8.30 or so. I groggily picked it up and heard my mother saying, "David, I've got some bad news." Oh Christ, I thought, Dad's had a heart attack. Sister's been run over by a car. "Princess Diana died." Oh, thank God for that! was my immediate emotion. Some vapid clothes horse with the IQ of a sack of doorknobs got herself killed by a drunk maniac. Back I went to bed and slept the sleep of the just (and hungover). I think it was this that caused me to cast such a jaundiced eye over the sob-fest that transpired over the next few weeks. I still get faintly bilious when I picture Elton John bashing away at the old joanna in Westminster Abbey. I haven't completely forgiven my mother yet, either. The Diana thing: I was spark out after a lengthy session the night before. The phone rang at 8.30 or so. I groggily picked it up and heard my mother saying, “David, I’ve got some bad news.” Oh Christ, I thought, Dad’s had a heart attack. Sister’s been run over by a car. “Princess Diana died.” Oh, thank God for that! was my immediate emotion. Some vapid clothes horse with the IQ of a sack of doorknobs got herself killed by a drunk maniac. Back I went to bed and slept the sleep of the just (and hungover). I think it was this that caused me to cast such a jaundiced eye over the sob-fest that transpired over the next few weeks. I still get faintly bilious when I picture Elton John bashing away at the old joanna in Westminster Abbey. I haven’t completely forgiven my mother yet, either.

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