[who_would_fardels_bear]

Garfunkel ends the interview with a throwaway line: I think I might have created a monster.

How many times have people used this phrase and meant it hyperbolicly?

Also, it is the interviewer that suggests that Simon has a Napoleon complex and Garfunkel kinda sorta agrees with that as a possibility.

Does anyone know how to write honest headlines anymore?

[Finny]

Thank you, fardels. I thought, when I read the original British story earlier today, that it was the WRITER who suggested it and drug Garfunkel into agreeing. That's what you do when you're a hired PR type writing a press release, but this isn't PR, it's supposed to be real journalism. Kinda low of the writer. And the headline is downright false.

Let Garfunkel in peace and enjoy 'em both, because both Simon and Garfunkel made pretty nice things to listen to. Music does have the power to soothe the soul; these guys knew how to make it do that.

I know the words to many, many Paul Simon songs. In his younger days at least, he was one of the only poets whose work I've ever enjoyed. "It's carbon and monoxide, that ol' Detroit perfume. It hangs on the highways in the morning, and lays you down by noon. Ah, Papa Hobo, you can see that I'm dressed like a schoolboy, but I feel like a clown -- it's a natural reaction I learned in this basketball town."