Bush got 53.3% of the electoral vote and even 50.7% of the popular vote (only time since the ’90s a majority of American president-election ballot-filers picked the Republican guy) over accused flip-flopster John Kerry. Also Britney Spears got married not once but twice, the first time just for 55 hours. In between, Simon & Garfunkel played a comeback show to 600K people at the Roman Colosseum, and Ashlee Simpson got Saturday Night Live viewers’ Fruits of the Loom in a twist by dancing instead of lip-synching - i.e., pretty much the same thing that John Lydon had legendarily done on American Bandstand a quarter-century before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well okay, to be technical, there were still 23 days left in 2004 when Dimebag died, and a whole month of the year had already passed before the Janet thing happened, but you get the idea. ![]() The fifth year of the 21st Century, in case you forgot, is the year that started with an areola belonging to Janet Jackson being exposed to 150 million or so football-watching couch potatoes in January and everybody blaming her for it when maybe they should have blamed Justin Timberlake instead or even better just ignored it and paid more attention to the war in Iraq, and the year that ended with Dimebag Darrell who played guitar for Pantera and on that particular night Damageplan getting shot dead on stage by a fan with a semi-automatic pistol.
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