The Thing That Should Not Be (Metallica, Master of Puppets): Last night saw the premier of the new series, Tommy Lee Goes to College. I probably would have remained blissfully unaware of this, like you, had Tommy not chosen to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the scene of a good portion of my formative and post-formative years. So as it happened I heard a good deal about it from my inside sources at UNL. Even so, it was mere chance that I happened to flip through TV to see if anything was on before starting my movie last night. Some dark Fate took this opportunity to smile twistedly down upon me, and I found myself gazing at the image of Tommy Lee, twirling like a little girl playing ballerina in the middle of Memorial Stadium, chanting
Michele, I usually come to your blog for enlightened discussion and to be edified on interesting topics. Instead, I read this post yesterday and ever since have been unable to get cheesy ballads by 80’s glam metal bands out of my head!!!! Why, oh why, does my brain insist on retaining all the lyrics to Motley Crue’s “Without You” when I can’t even keep track of my nephew’s birthdays or what to buy at the grocery store?
I meant nephews’ plural – three nephews, three birthdays, not one nephew with several birthdays. Motley Crue is truly rotting my cognitive functions.
Hee hee! I know, and why do such lyrics take up so much of my brain and Near Eastern Archaeology so little? Now that Motley Crue is back together, maybe they could do an album on the Neo-Assyrian empire or something…