The Good The Bad and The… 6

"Ha ha ha, 1,782, 1,783, ha ha, this is brilliant!"

The Good - Springsteen should be Boss of New Jersey. A less than serious poll by the Public Policy Polling Survey in the American state of New Jersey has found that voters were more likely to vote for rock god Bruce Springsteen than its Republican incumbent. It's America's first step towards resurrecting it's international reputation, and not a moment too soon!

The Bad - Censorship by threat. Lawyers of erstwhile over dramatic, balladeering gesticulator and vocal bull in China shop, Celine Dion, have managed to do something that Governments in the western world have struggled to accomplish for decades, censoring the internetz.

Borrowing He-Man's legs helped defeat
Skeletor, but they weren't great evening wear.

After finding a website devoted to hilarious snaps of the sonically sanctimonious singing pasty pocket pixie, Dion had her minions confront the site's owner with a terse letter of threatening disapproval.

The strapped-for-cash owner of the Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion blog, Nick Angiolillo, couldn't afford the lawyer fees needed to even respond to the cease and desist order and closed the hilarious site, much to the sorrow of its faithful followers. 

In a statement posted on the otherwise closed website, Nick said: "Hey y’all. Céline Dion found our blog, and she didn’t like it. We just got a letter from Céline’s lawyers that the blog has to be shut down.

"Though this blog is well within the realm of ‘fair use’, I don’t have the money or time to get a lawyer to respond. The dream is over."

However, there is light at the end of the oesophagus, as many of the pictures from the site are available by typing Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion into Google's image search.

"Long line drive into left field, it's up, up, up. Lightbody's
looking for it, he goes up... aw, home run."

And the comeback – Snow Patrol are back! Well, in a way. Their latest single, Called Out In the Dark, sounds like a Robyn remix of an old track, and probably for good reason. The band made so much money from their other songs being covered that it's not surprising this latest effort would fit easily onto the albums of more than a few currently popular singers.

CYNICAL MUCH?!

You can listen to it here.