#60
 
 

museum of loneliness

by Chris Petit

The depressing thing is not the passing but the dire quality of the posthumous content e.g. Salman Rushdie’s tweet. Lou tweeted right up to the end: I tweet therefore I am. MoL’s main correspondent, silent since 60pages began, was flushed into the open by Rushdie, declaring he deserved another fatwa for producing something so cringe-worthy, and added: immense hypocrisy and sentimentality at large regarding Reed, who, yes, was some kind of genius for 10-15 years, ’66-78-ish, but then became an irrelevance, in permanent and ill-tempered mid-life crisis, like your granddad wearing a leather jacket and dancing to Suzi Quatro at a wedding. The same people who for years had been been calling him vain, rude, and an embarrassment suddenly teary-eyed at the thought of being without him. Am currently reviewing early New Age music & innovative gay porno film soundtracks from late 70s early 80s; am available for DJ-ing kids parties. Or you can borrow my latest charity shop find: www.discogs.com/Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogi-Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogi/release/1692140. Normal service resumed.

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