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The Second Monzy!


Today we award our second Monzy award, which recognizes excellent excellence wherever it appears. The winner is New York Times "Number Two" music critic (a position previously held by author/playa Neil Strauss) Kelefa Saneh. In Saneh's review of the new Celine Dion CD, he makes the following inspired observation:

Now comes the sixth, “Taking Chances,” which starts simply enough, with the title track, with a strummed guitar and an absurd plea: “Don’t want to be alone tonight, on this planet they call Earth.” (By the way that last prepositional phrase, portentous and meaningless, can be tacked onto just about any lyric in need of extra oomph: “Sweet home, Alabama, on this planet they call Earth”; “You lived your life like a candle in the wind, on this planet they call Earth”; “We be big pimpin’, on this planet they call Earth.”)

Monz, who does nothing half-heartedly, might up the portention by saying "on this WHOLE planet they call Earth" -- as in Whole Foods, the source of today's giant tofu rolls (though the similarly large apple came from Dominick's).