November 15th, 2011
Galley Hero Andy Ferguson has a fabulous piece up about George Harrison’s spiritual life. It’s awesome.
So awesome, in fact, that in addition to everything else, it contains one of the greatest Easter Eggs ever to appear in The Weekly Standard. Galley Friend X spotted it first, and anyone else who finds it is a real Beatles Super Fan.
You should hunt for it yourself, but for the lazy, I’ll put it in invisotext below, from X:
Note the little “Easter egg” that Ferguson included with this line: “Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Say no more.”
Ferguson doesn’t mention that line’s provenance: It’s from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, featured in (among other things) Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the executive producer of which was . . . George Harrison.
Galley Friend J.E. November 15, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Excellent stuff. That the line was uttered in MP by Eric Idle–Harrison’s good buddy-makes it even funnier, methinks. He said it often back when…maybe even as David Frost.
The Scorsese first night was unwatchable. The second night was the profile of a real asshole without any halfhearted attempt to explain how a guy who never actually had a real job or real-life worry got to be Sauron.
Also, thanks to Ferguson for reminding me about the family’s bullshit press release after his death re his faith in the afterlife. I thought the whole point of his spiritual practice, such as it was, was to get off the cycle of birth and death. His own lines in Give Me Love: “Keep me free from birth…”
Based on what I saw, by now he’s come back as a Coloradan’s boogers in winter.