So apparently, when the word "Pope" is used extensively throughout an article, the words around that words cease to have any meaning and a constant barrage of "Pope Pope Pope Pope Pope" just runs through your head...

Hello folks-

Wangst, i notice you cracked another mention in the Sunday times today. Quite the little media whore arent you?

That aside i would like to express my dismay and bittersweet sentiments at the news of Saint Hunter S Thompson's death. He was truly a maverick. However, his shooting himself squarely in the noggin would be worse news to me if it weren't so rock and roll. As much as i'm disappointed at never being able now to stalk the guy (he rated highly on my 'ten people i would most like to have over for drinks' rhetorical list) i can't help but think that suicide truly is the damn cool person's death method of choice. I would have been way more pissed off if he had a poxy passe overdoes like so many half arsed so-called rock 'legends' before. Don't tell me Jim Morrison's disgusting fat guts wouldn't have looked better with his face splattered across the kitchen sink instead of his flabby, water logged chicken peicey carcus bobby up and down in bath. You too Elvis.

I like to think Sid overdosed on purpose but i have to subtract points for gutlessness. Guns make body discovery so much more unpleasant and it seems so much braver and determined (much like Socrates) to top yourself so spectacularly. Acutally Socrates had a fair bit in common with Mr Cobain in the suicide stakes- well, in that both had looper wives. I think Socrates would have done it with a gun if they were invented back in the day. He had to settle for hemlock but he did the whole episode with the grace and purpose that i like to think Hunter had.

Ian Curtis' hanging thing was alright...but, it was more miserable than semi heroic. It certainly rates in the grissly scale.

Anyway, im just dribbling on...The moral of the story is that Hunter had some balls. Suicide is under-rated.

Go safe kids.

Oh, i forgot to remind you that now would be the perfect opportunity to make this url link to some hard core pornography for the benefit of all the site seeing Sunday times readers who will soon decend upon this little page. Lets see if youre still 'going up' after they see some lesbians and a dog going down...

k- be good.

Seems you've only read one of those books. Premature senility can be the only reason you'd review works you haven't read.

Dear CL

Being a mindless, boring, hype following twat is the only reason you would read ANY of those books. You do realise the Random House is laughing its arse off at you fuckwits that buy into that conspiracy rubbish. I know your type- the type that still asks the customer service chick at the local Dymocks if she 'has any books by the author Dan Brown...' because you think you're the only person in the world to have gotten into this clear cult classic, regardless of the fact that that customer service chick is standing infront of a fifty foot DAN BROWN IS SO COOL poster featuring a neat little mini version of the other three novel covers infront of a massive 'DaVinci Code' sepia tone logo. I run a bookshop and i see sheep like consumers like you lapping up that overrated shite as if it has a coupon inside for a free blow job. Youre not being let into some secret club ya know. This book will probably not change your miserable little life that significantly, i can assure you.

Oh, and its not a 'work' its a novel. Danielle Steel doesn't write 'works' and neither does Dan Brown. Infact, he didnt even really write this one at all- for further reference see 'Holy Blood of the Holy Grail' for a much earlier publication of the same book. Although, being the literary genius you so obviously are, i'm sure youve already gone down that path during your journey into Dan Brown hysteria. Have you added it all up yet CL? The big secrets!!! My stars!!!....they'll melt your face!!!! Perhaps you should quit your job and just sit at home all day and read more about Dan Brown until you find the oh so helpful secrets to your life and many others.

You are a maverick CL- truly a stand out master of international intrigue.

It is cool that this site has been going for mere months and we have already developed a strong ethic of murdering anyone that tries to leave an innocent comment here. In a years time when nobody is ever commenting on anything I will remember and blame this as a turning point.

Amazoslafontz I am quite well versed in the works of the Currency Lad and I am pretty sure that what he is actually refering to the fact that I have not actually, despite my claim to the contrary, read any of the Papal Encyclicals of this current Pope. Unlike the Currency Lad who seems to imply that he has read ALL the Papal Encyclicals.

And any motherfucker that has read even one of those badboys is quite likely somebody not in posession of a sense of humour.

Is that the case CL? Have you actually read all of the JP2 Encyclicals from cover to cover?