Life could be so dull on the road - a Groundhog Day existence of plane, gig, hotel, plane, gig, hotel.
A soundtrack of chairs flipping and critics huffing accompanied the world premiere of Vincent Gallo's fantastically dull and self-indulgent road trip – and that was before the 10-minute non-simulated fellatio scene with Chloe Sevigny.
"I would never go to the city center when I was a teenager because it was so dull, just the ring road and a few rundown businesses," he said.
Even an icon of great taste, like Cy Twombly's house in Rome, has been the object of much dull, middle-of-the-road copycatting.
Previously, the Goldsmith campaign had attempted to link Khan to Islamic extremism, a smear against one of Labour's most utterly dull middle-of-the-road liberals that succeeded only in making him look slightly more racy.
The sentiment was understandable: Yes, pivoting from a week-long parade of race-baiting and fear-mongering to something more closely approaching sanity would provide sweet relief, but there was a very real possibility that the Democratic Party would take a dull, middle-of-the-road approach while laying out its agenda this week.
The Holloway Road is never dull.
As we've grown older, we've learned to one-up our parents' planning by strategically mapping out pit stops at eateries that can turn road trips from dull to delicious.
It is today's dull and docile King's Road, with its Byron and Benihana, its juice bars, dog barbers and endless BBC4 smart-casual for people with fat wallets and dwindling hormone stocks, the atmospheric blueprint for the new British high street that has been rolled out en masse to Tory-leaning toy-towns across the land.
In it, O'Malley makes repeated (and apparently real) phone calls to cruise-liner booking agents offering Pera's worthless services while Pera road-tests absurdly dull jokes.
