"Imagine"

Something big, round and heavy fell with a clang in Times Square on New Year's Eve, and it wasn't the ball on the flagpole. Cee Lo Green sang a version of Imagine in which he changed John Lennon's lyric "and no religion, too" to "and all religion is true".

Outraged Lennon fans didn't need to use 132 of their Twitter characters to tell Cee Lo what they thought of him. On the other hand, perhaps they were just reminding him of his most infamous song title.

Among the New Year's Day tweets, I imagine there were one or two that said, in effect, don't you think you're taking postmodernism a bit far? To which Cee Lo responded: "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all."

-- Paul Handley at The Guardian

Apparently a big controversy flared up at the big New Year's celebration. I guess you miss out when you go to bed early. Mr. Handley gives us some interesting discussion about John Lennon and God.

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"Imagine"

Something big, round and heavy fell with a clang in Times Square on New Year's Eve, and it wasn't the ball on the flagpole. Cee Lo Green sang a version of Imagine in which he changed John Lennon's lyric "and no religion, too" to "and all religion is true".

Outraged Lennon fans didn't need to use 132 of their Twitter characters to tell Cee Lo what they thought of him. On the other hand, perhaps they were just reminding him of his most infamous song title.

Among the New Year's Day tweets, I imagine there were one or two that said, in effect, don't you think you're taking postmodernism a bit far? To which Cee Lo responded: "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all."

-- Paul Handley at The Guardian

Apparently a big controversy flared up at the big New Year's celebration. I guess you miss out when you go to bed early. Mr. Handley gives us some interesting discussion about John Lennon and God.

( The rest of the column )

Writer's Block: Love Me Tender

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One favorite Elvis song? Only one? It would be more sensible to pick a favorite song for every day of the year tbh. But this one first comes to mind:

Happy birthday, E.!

Writer's Block: Love Me Tender

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One favorite Elvis song? Only one? It would be more sensible to pick a favorite song for every day of the year tbh. But this one first comes to mind:

Happy birthday, E.!

Monk's News Reel

Santorum thinks he’s a bold color and Romney’s a pastel. But the whole Republican field seems ensconced in a black-and-white ’50s diorama. It’s like they’re running for president of Leave It to Beaverland.

-- Maureen Dowd at NYT


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Monk's News Reel

Santorum thinks he’s a bold color and Romney’s a pastel. But the whole Republican field seems ensconced in a black-and-white ’50s diorama. It’s like they’re running for president of Leave It to Beaverland.

-- Maureen Dowd at NYT


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That Tebow Phenomenon

I actually caught some of that Tebow phenomenon, complete with Tebowing.

We were in the kitchen. Pop was finishing up dinner, and I was starting mine, and the Broncos game was on TV, in overtime even. Tebow threw a perfect pass up the middle of the field, and the receiver broke it for a touchdown.

People say he cannot pass. Bringing to mind Billy Kilmer of the Redskins back in the seventies. But Tebow threw a perfect, tight spiral. Caught the receiver in dead stride.

The fans were holding up signs. One read: BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE.

That Tebow Phenomenon

I actually caught some of that Tebow phenomenon, complete with Tebowing.

We were in the kitchen. Pop was finishing up dinner, and I was starting mine, and the Broncos game was on TV, in overtime even. Tebow threw a perfect pass up the middle of the field, and the receiver broke it for a touchdown.

People say he cannot pass. Bringing to mind Billy Kilmer of the Redskins back in the seventies. But Tebow threw a perfect, tight spiral. Caught the receiver in dead stride.

The fans were holding up signs. One read: BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE.

LiLo

I see LiLo is continuing to write on her body in permanent ink.



Lindsay Lohan is a fan of tattooing words on her body -- because just a few months after she got a Billy Joel song lyric tattooed on her rib cage ... she got a much smaller saying on her left wrist.

According to our sources, LiLo hit up a tattoo parlor on Friday night to get the work done. The impetus for the new ink, we're told, was Lindsay's feeling that she's at a great point in her life ... and she wanted to do something she'd always remember.

-- ONTD

I suspect she is going to come to regret those tattoos.

LiLo

I see LiLo is continuing to write on her body in permanent ink.



Lindsay Lohan is a fan of tattooing words on her body -- because just a few months after she got a Billy Joel song lyric tattooed on her rib cage ... she got a much smaller saying on her left wrist.

According to our sources, LiLo hit up a tattoo parlor on Friday night to get the work done. The impetus for the new ink, we're told, was Lindsay's feeling that she's at a great point in her life ... and she wanted to do something she'd always remember.

-- ONTD

I suspect she is going to come to regret those tattoos.