I was prompted by a post to alt.peeves to seek confirmation of my brilliant originality by websearching for phrases that I had jotted down as clever. In light of this research, the name of my band will be “A Wellmeaning Oaf”, and our first album will be “Return to Porlock”. (I am particularly disappointed in “Usual Suspicions” and “Red Weather”.)

In the process I found this essay by one Sarah David about enjoying the B-52’s. Whom, in turn, I didn’t expect to see dominating the search results so thoroughly (are there no webpages about bombers?). I can take only so much of the B-52’s at one sitting (about as much as Devo) but I love the counterpoint of “52 Girls”.

Another essay using that same phrase is this one about bad fight scenes in fiction.