CROSSING THE VEEP-ICON…
Proof of why so many of us misunderstood the idea behind Bob’s new show… and all you Mr and Mrs Jones’s should apologise, cos you don’t know what’s going on … do you?
See pictures below Bob’s video … top mags were right to be wrong!
Now nobody has broken any laws here … but to borrow another song (not by His Royal Bobness), all you social media twit-teraties who have insulted me and so many others, read ’em and Veep!
Yes, many people – just like me – believed that on July 18th we were going to be treated to a live-stream of a Bob Dylan concert. (AND BELOW WE PUBLISH THE REASONS WHY).
But back to the ‘concert’ – brilliant, we thought. Stunning we shouted. 80 years old and Bob’s taking modern technology by the throat and throttling it for his fans!
But he isn’t, is he?
No. He isn’t.
Well, that’s the perceived wisdom at the moment in the shadowy kingdom of Mr Dylan.
As far as anyone knows, it’s going to be a video recorded a few weeks ago – and you are being charged $25 a pop to watch it.
Forgive me, just as a bit of a meander, but, if a million people buy tickets there will $25million dollars to be divvy-ed up in whatever legal way it is to be shared. And I’m sure Bob’ll make a few quid too … good on him.
To meander a bit further though, what if two million or three million people put their hands in their pockets?
Well, everybody will be doing very well indeed for streaming a ‘old’ video won’t they!
Oh yes, they will.
However, my real dissatisfaction over this whole thing, is that’s it’s another of show of the arrogance of the scoffing keyboard warriors.
That’s what’s got up my nose.
If these people stood in a pub – or a bar – or even at a bus stop – sniggering at the people around them, diminishing their intelligence, snorting at what they perceive as naivety, they’d likely get a p*nch!
Well, this is my metaphorical p*nch to all you swaggering slobs of the hi-tech highway…
Yes, you were right – but a lot of people quite possibly a bit more able to understand the subtleties of copywriting and ‘dicky’ (that means not very well in English and has nothing to do with what you are thinking) content – created by design or accident – also misinterpreted what was being told to them.
So, Mr and Mrs Jones, you might have got it right, but you were also completely wrong and pompous and ignorant and insulting with it too.
So, just so you know what’s happening here, we’ve got some screen shots of leading publications that misunderstood what ‘what it is’ and some of the words that led to this confusion!
(Oh, by the way, the reason I put a * in the word p*nch is because the robots who run social media and allow pompous idiots to attack anybody they want to with vitriol and misspelt words, might consider the real word an inc*tem*nt to vi*l*nce!),
And it isn’t, it’s a metaphor.
VEEP boss is part of this quote … “
How the enigmatic Nobel Prize winner intends to perform his “Shadow Kingdom” livestream, his first broadcast performance since his “MTV Unplugged” special in 1994, is still anyone’s guess.”