John Lennon, Roland Barthes, and Unlivable Myths
I keep in my wallet a clipping from the back pages of the October 12, 2005 edition of my hometown newspaper. Journalists call such pieces brights: short, amusing little items targeting depressed retirees and the unemployed. If I had not been a staff writer at that paper, I never would have run across this little story. Probably someone grabbed it off th…