When will the Monkees win the Nobel Prize?

 When I was newly out of graduate school, I was an editor on an engineering magazine.  One of my fellow editors, a few years younger than me, was an ardent fan of the "pre-fab four," television's attempted clone of the Beatles --  the Monkees.


Years later, after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was founded and found a home here in Cleveland, my old friend and fellow editor was still a Monkees fanatic.  And every year, she* would push the notion that the Monkees Belonged! In! The! Rock! Hall!  Bit of an obsession, really.   

But she never gave up on the idea.  And every year, as the Monkees failed to make the cut (or even the list of nominees), she would dither about how stupid!  How biased!  How foolish! were all those people who failed to realize the genius of the Monkees -- a group chosen by a television executive who didn't even care if they were musicians.

I was reminded of this today when I ran into yet another butthurt Republican who was whining, apropos of nothing, that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize.


Yes, the anger was really that Trump didn't get one -- as it always is.  As if American presidents always get it.  Trump wanted one because Obama won one.  And his fans took his martyrdom to heart.  But in the end, poor Trump got no prize at all.




So, in commemoration of Trump's No-Prize, I invite everyone here to give THEIR nominations--preferably for a prize the would be recipient has NO hope of receiving, and probably no reason they should!

AlextheKay wants YOUR nominations now!


*The lady in question identified and presented as a man in our engineering magazine days, but in the last years of her life, transitioned into a woman.  So I refer to her with the feminine pronoun. Fact is, back in our days on the magazine, women editors on engineering magazines were rarer than hen's teeth.

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