Macrolog
The Boss: Dead
I had the strangest dream last night. I am in an undisclosed location reading a tabloid, not paying much attention to the text, when all of a sudden a photograph catches my eye. It’s a small thumbnail image, heading an inch-wide side column, of Bruce Springsteen. It’s not the greatest picture, hampered by its size and poor resolution, but it’s recognisably him, in his younger days. Suitably distracted (yeah, it doesn’t take much to distract me) I focus on the accompanying text, immediately drawn to the curt caption directly below the image. It reads: *The Boss: Dead* I am taken aback. (Strangely stunned, since I’m not even a fan. I don’t even bother to scan the subsequent text to confirm it.) I ask myself: _Can it be? Is Bruce Springsteen dead? I had no idea! Why didn’t anyone tell me?!?_ It’s only a moment or two later when I begin to wonder: _Hang on a minute, this is the Boss! Doesn’t he deserve more than a single column inch in the middle of a tabloid?_ Then I woke up.Sun 18 Jan 2004 at 19:35 ·
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I don’t have premonitions, so I think the Boss will be fine for now.
I do, however, experience déjà vu quite regularly. I think I noted it on the weblog once before. It happened again yesterday afternoon, whilst listening to a radio documentary on John Cage and the prepared piano on BBC Radio 3. Strange.
Posted by
eoin
Mon 19 Jan 2004
at 12:53
i dunno mac, i think there’s some evidence that you’re psychic.
Remember that time you predicted i’d grow up to be a total loser?
I rest my case…
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You are reading The Boss: Dead, a Macrolog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Personal, and was published in January 2004.
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This day in history: 18 January
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