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Awesome rock journalism

This top entertainment news story (from playfuls.com, on my Google News feed) made me do a double take this morning, and then laugh. 

"The wife of Velvet Underground's Scott Weiland is free on bail after being charged with setting the singer's clothes afire, Burbank, Calif., police said.... Mary Weiland was arrested for vandalism because the clothes weren't hers, and for arson because 'you can't burn stuff willy-nilly,' Ferguson said."

A of all, lighting someone's clothes on fire, now that's funny. B of all, American Hertitage says 'willy-nilly' means "without order or plan, haphazardly." She torched her own husband's stuff. That doesn't' seem random or sans-plan to me. Which begs the question: is it okay to burn someone's stuff in a non-willy-nilly fashion? C of all, strong work on the band name, Playfuls.com.

Ahh, music journalism...

categories: The Velvet Underground | Velvet Revolver
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Imaginary-jah said on March 27, 2007:

3IG: AWESOME
ROCK JOURNALISM IS THE PHRASE I'D RESERVE FOR THIS SITE. 3IG beats the pants, on fire or not, off reading the pabulum in the Stranger and the Weekly ... reminds me of ye ol' days of yore when the Rocket ruled the Seattle music rags.

Damn great stuff!

-jah

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imaginary embracey said on March 27, 2007:

I think maliciously burning someone's shit would always be willy-nilly.

But performing a similar action higgledy-piggledy? Not right.

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imaginary dana said on March 27, 2007:

Um, WOW! Thanks, Jah! You just set our imaginary pants on fire with your glowing praise... erm, or something like that. *grin*

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