Please read and comment on Bono's NYT op-ed pieces on the air.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Dear Tom,

This morning I read Bono's op-ed piece aloud to my wife and I thought about how hilarious it would be to hear your commentary on this unique cultural train wreck.  Where to begin?  I'd rather not, because I'd like to hear you talk about it.

Thanks,
Jason

[Steve of Bloomington]

(prays): Please God, make Billy Bob Thornton write an op-ed piece for the NYT.

[Come on, Jason]

I second J. Grote's request. 

This is NUTS: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11bono.html

Apparently, Bono and Robert Evans attended the same learning annex.

[Steve of Bloomington]

That was some full-on looniness to be sure.  He starts off like he's going to talk about the economic situation in Ireland, then veers off into a lot of palaver about Frank Sinatra.

[Denim Gremlin]

I second J. Grote's request. 

This is NUTS: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11bono.html

Apparently, Bono and Robert Evans attended the same learning annex.

"as soon as I get a compliment on a pair of big sunglasses... right in the shredder."

[buffcoat]

Blah blah blah blah.

It was a shame when Bono hit that tree.  He's never really recovered.

[Martin]

The Joshua Tree?

[yesno]

Bono is going to start blogging for the Times this year.



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[buffcoat]

The Joshua Tree?

Martin - look up Bono hit tree on Google.  That one may not be nearly as comprehensible to the international folks or to Americans under 25.





Hint: it's a different Bono.

[masterofsparks]

The Joshua Tree?

Martin - look up Bono hit tree on Google.  That one may not be nearly as comprehensible to the international folks or to Americans under 25.





Hint: it's a different Bono.

Another hint by way of an album recommendation:

[Martin]

I got it - just attemped a little bit of U2 comedy.

As for his column, from now on I refuse to read anything U2-related that's not in 3D.

[Spoony]

As for his column, from now on I refuse to read anything U2-related that's not in 3D.

Or cost 500,000 per night to print.

[Wes]

Let's just say an on-air discussion would make it past the very first line: "Once upon a couple of weeks ago ..." Is there any way it would get beyond the "Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing" part? And even if it did, I see no way it would make it past "...looking out onto the desert and hills, no gingham for miles. Plenty of miles, though, Miles Davis." Which is a shame, because after that is Bono's dialogue with Sinatra, the part I'd most like to hear recreated on the air.

"... such confidence in nervous times allowing you romance but knocking your rose-tinted glasses off your nose..." I'd like to knock the orange-tinted glasses off Bono's nose.

[Bryan]

You can also listen to Bono reading his column! Multimedia!

[Mark in Helsinki]

Oh come on you haters... Bono isn't such a bad guy, just a bit into himself. Remember what a twat he was in the 90's and 80's? Q Magazine and Rolling Stone were declaring him God, and so was he.

All Bono Vox is doing is whoring the new U2 album coming out this spring. He just knows whom to whore to; NYT readers (ie iTunes customers). He's nearly 50. It's amazing, really, that the jingle-jangle-jingle of a Stratocaster could have taken those Irish boys this far.