I wish I could write as well as Emily Hill at Spiked...
Glastonbury’s got 99 problems – but Jay-Z ain’t one.
[From Who killed Glastonbury? | spiked]
A sentence that works on so many levels. In order to understand it, you need to know about Glastonbury's slide from countercultural Mecca (when I used to go, of course) to flabby post-modern dreariness, one of Jay-Z's greatest hits (and a work of modern poetry, "99 Problems") and the fact that ticket sales are down this year. All beautifully encapsulated in a single sentence that literally shines from the page. Sometimes, writing like this makes me want to cry, because I fancy myself as a writer (I've even been to my first editorial conference at a real magazine) yet I know I'll never write that line now.
In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people.[posted with ecto]
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