Inkblots: Kid Rock Saga Continued

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February 16, 2005

Kid Rock Saga Continued

OK, so the Kid Rock saga (see previous entry) continues. I heard more of the story just a bit ago on the 9:00 news. It seems that after Kid Rock assaulted the cabaret DJ, he went to a bar across town. When he discovered that the police were looking for him, he sneaked out of the bar and went to an friend�s apartment a few streets away from my campus. Well�in an attempt to dodge the police (somehow they knew where he was hiding), he revved his car at a stoplight on the campus (the campus stretches over a major street). A Vanderbilt police officer pulled him over, spoke with him, asked him for an autograph, and let him go even though he should�ve given Kid Rock a sobriety test and a citation. The cop lost his job today for giving �preferential treatment.� There�s a moral in this story somewhere, but I�m not sure where. Maybe it�s not to abandon your job duties even if you�re starstruck, or maybe it�s not to act like a fool in front of a cop, or maybe it�s not to try to outrun the police, or maybe it�s to keep your hands to yourself and refrain from beating up a DJ, or maybe it�s to stay out of cabarets in the first place. I don�t know�maybe it�s all four. Good ol� Kid Rock. The news showed a clip of Kid Rock singing at the funeral (it was yesterday before all this happened), and I just found it very disturbing that he was singing, �I Saw the Light� at a funeral and yet has many songs with explicit lyrics and a few with obscenities in the titles themselves. Does anyone else think that�s a pretty obvious double standard?

By the way, I've gotten 99 comments on the blog in a little over a month. It's time to break into the triple digits. Who's gonna be the one to turn the commentometer to 100 comments??

Posted by Anna at February 16, 2005 10:15 PM