“Bono is NOT the second coming. I’m sorry. But you have to know the truth. It’s better late than never,” writes the Portugese blogger and artist Vitriolica, winner of the Big Blogger 2005 contest.
We all know the stuff he does (and is seen to be doing), going up against the big scary men like Tony “is my makeup on straight, Cherie?” Blair and saying “Hey, poverty isn’t naice” (that’s Belfast for “nice”) and “We should all be ashamed of (I’m paraphrasing horribly, you’ll be getting me drift, but) (that’s Belfast for “but you get my drift”) such shameful abundance in the face of a child dying every three minutes and people starving and Africa being in a terrible state, but.” etc etc… and will usually use words like “unacceptable”,”hypocrisy”, “shameful” in his little speechlet soundbite things to adoring press conferences (as does Bob Geldof in his similarly Belfastian rages against the machine).
So, writes Vitriolica, “the four inCREDibly rich fuckers flew into Portugal airport in a HUGE private jet this afternoon” to be pinned with medals of the Ordem de Liberdade. (See V’s drawing above.) Update [2005-8-15 15:31:25 by susanhu]: Vitriolica herself responds to you, in comments section. MORE BELOW:
Vitriolica, featured in today’s UK Observer, continues:
Then they’re schmoozed along to the President of the Republic of Portugal for a photo opp of certainly great street cred value to the office of Prez.
And Prez. Jorge pins some MEDALS (Ordem de Liberdade) on the four of them, which was acutely funny, as their names had to be read out as Jorge lines them up: along comes the turn of that shifty looking bugger, “The Edge” (I mean, COME ON, you’re a middle aged man be now) with his blue Ali G condom hat on and the some bloke has to say in a dignified manner “Dave Evans, ‘The Edge'” Dave Evans. No wonder he changed his name to ‘The Edge’ when he was eighteen, but why he didn’t change it back when he was nineteen is probably the same reason he still thinks it acceptable to wear the blue Ali G condom hat in middle age.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that when one visits a country and gets to meet the President of that country, that one should show a teensy weensy bit of respect for that office if not for the person who holds that office.
Unless, maybe if you’re called Paul Hewson. I mean Bono… which incidentally must read as boonoo in portuguese….hahahahha.
He and the rest of them turn up looking basically like thirteen year olds who’ve been told they’ll get a pint of shandy if they stand on this stage and smile and say thank you to the nice man with the ginger eyebrows (well, he does have ginger eyebrows).
Vitriolica’s profile:
Age: 35
Gender: female
Astrological Sign: Gemini
Zodiac Year:: Dog
Industry: Arts
Occupation: Illustrator
Location: Azeitão : Portugal
About Me
Vit, Madge, WHO? we live in Portugal, also in the same body/mind of a British illustrator/mummy/masochist who is saving up to buy her new whizz bang computador (hint hint… buy her prints, merch, painting… hint HINT)… leave comments in whatever language you like, but if you want me to understand them, then make them Portuguese or English.
