I just noticed a not-insignificant uptick in my traffic. It seemed to come from a very odd source: some photos I posted a year ago in connection with an attempt at humorous reflection on a possible link between Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” and Leonard Cohen’s “Closing Time”—and the further connection between Joel and Salman Rushdie (well, you have to read the post to understand—and maybe even then it won’t be all that clear).
Hardly a hot topic right now (or ever), one would think. My post featured several remarkable resemblances (at any rate, I saw fit to remark on them, even if no one else did) between couples Rushdie and bombshell fourth wife Padma Lakshmi (from whom he was recently divorced at the time), and Billy and newish wife Katie Lee.
Alas, the resemblances continue. When I visited Google Trends just now to see what might be going on, I had an aha! moment on reading that a great many Google searches are being performed on the recent announcement that Joel and Katie Lee are splitsville.
So Padma, are you listening? Joel’s free!
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
June 18th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Hey, now, I’m available too!
June 18th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
IRA Darth Aggie: get in line.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Life/85210-Living-beyond-their-means/
Maybe I’ll be in line soon..
I still haven’t gotten the lady a car. And I’ve decided it won’t be new (if at all). She wants new.
We’ll see how that goes….
The future is wide open
June 18th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Baklava, if all else fails, there’s always a canoe…..
June 18th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I’ll be up the creek I know.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Although I am thrice divorced, I’m not bitter…maybe because I’ve never been “burned” financially, but not for a lack of trying by various former spouses. In fact, I may well get married again, just not anytime soon…
June 19th, 2009 at 9:41 am
In both cases, beautiful women transgressed the species boundary. They should be drug-tested.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:51 am
http://www.daminesper.com/?p=31