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Today is actually the first time I'd gone and read the original full quotes from both parties, and the press coverage on this (which I'd kind of been following in the background) now seems way off base. It seems pretty clear that they're all having a laugh at the expense of the press and the audience.
I should ask my uncle for the inside scoop -- Donald Fagen was his college roommate.
I think they are. I think Owen's playing along with it.
He's gotta be - the "Mr. Steely Dan" comment is such a giveaway. Owen should totally show up at the concert.
Oh, yeah, it's completely a joke. Glad that Owen Wilson is playing along, and even (possibly) referencing an old National Lampoon joke about "Mr. Zeppelin". (And, yeah, "Hey 19" is supposed to be the tip-off that they're kidding around. If the stationary that Steely Dan's letter is on didn't do it.)
Ok, then I am a little slow on the uptake.
Well, the jokes all assume that you are intimate with Steely Dan's ouevre.
Ah, there's the rub.
Damn these in-jokes! They are tearing this nation apart!
Well, the jokes all assume that you are intimate with Steely Dan's ouevre.
Except...not really, because the article mentions the song "Hey Nineteen" like two lines after Wilson's quote. So they've done enough research to make the connection in print, but don't appear to have read their own article.
t boggles
Except...not really, because the article mentions the song "Hey Nineteen" like two lines after Wilson's quote. So they've done enough research to make the connection in print, but don't appear to have read their own article.
And Becker, Fagen and the Wilsons have got to be laughing their asses off. I wouldn't be surprised if Wes Anderson had a hand in this somewhere.
I really, really want to believe that most of the articles about the whole thing are by people who know that it's a joke and are playing along. Even if it's just because if they admit it's a joke, they can't continue covering it as "news," I'd be okay with that.
But I suspect it's got more to do with the fact that a lot of people in this world are astonishingly stupid.