Upon reading in an almanac over the weekend (great for the bathroom by the way), I came upon a list of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I read through it, and was angered by what I though were a few glaring omissions. I had a little conversation with myself about, pants around the ankles, this morning. “WELL HELL,” I thought to myself, “I have a little corner of the web at my disposal, probably the tiniest corner, but I can none-the-less launch into a tirade about it, and try to right a few wrongs the only way I know how, IE Pointless Bitching.
     I looked over the list. The Ramones weren't on there. AND WHAT ABOUT THE CLASH YOU ASK? Nope. No Clash. I was resolved. A list was to be made. A great list in the tradition of such hack monstro-mags like Spin and Rolling Stone. I would call it: “TEN BANDS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND AREN'T”. Or something. But it would set things in motion. People would read it, just the usual 10 people a first, but it would grow. Calls would be made. Petitions signed. Soon there would be a great outcry to the president, or whoever, the guy who runs things down at the hall of fame, and I would soon be proved right. I, your humble correspondent, would be heralded as the next Lester Bangs, and would be quickly given Hummer, and a syndicated column. Maybe I would win the Pulitzer Prize, and get to have lunch with any Ramone that might still be alive.
     I later discovered, from an unusual bout of research that overcame me, that The Clash AND The Ramones are both in the hall, and that I am an idiot. Further inspection of the almanac shows that it is from the year 2002, and that both the above named bands were, in fact, inducted after that time. So much for my Hummer. Therefore I have decided to forgo the list. It would be silly now, and would only mean more research. I will instead leave this as a cautionary tale. The moral? KEEP AROUND AN UP TO DATE ALMANAC.