Loving the alien

[shewhomust]

Not for the first time, I seem to be out of step with what the news media tell me I am feeling. Here on LJ my f-list is full of personal reactions to the death of David Bowie, of explainations why he was important to the writer personally, and that's fine. But I'm beginning to twitch at the wall-to-wall coverage: when the Guardian has a full-page photo on the front page, plus a pull-out supplement with another full-page photo on the front (in addition to a double-page obituary and any number of opinion pieces); when the presenter of the Tosay programme (Radio 4 at its most conservative) feels obliged to preface an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury by asking what Bowie had meant to him* - well, I begin to think that the state funeral can't be far behind. It's not that I don't think he deserves it, it just feels inappropriate, a category error.

There's more, but beyond this point I just write things and delete them. So I will stop here, and get back to writing a long-overdue post about Peter Dickinson.

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*To be fair to Justin Welby, he managed a perfectly sensible answer about having listened to a lot of Bowie in the seventies. If this had anything to do with his ending up in a job which requires him to wear very elaborate frocks for much of the time, he didn't say so.

Comments

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Just read that Jerry Hall is engaged to Rupert Murdoch, which also seems like a category error, although one of a more humorous kind.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

As in: 'What do Rupert Murdoch and Mick Jagger have in common?' No, it makes perfect sense to me!

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Am afraid I am agreeing...and at admitting for a lot (as in allitterration) as Monty Python would have said on group things such as mass hysteria about whom to love&hate (the Romans, was it); I am also afraid, I did not know this. About Rupert&Jerry. Yet. The News! At least this time, they're hilarious. Time to take a cigarette. She appeared as Spring for one of the Queen's birthdays, did she not? Courtneying (as in curtseying but I'll stop Mollberging for now...;)