A band form, release a few albums, get hailed by a hyperventilating music press as the saviours of indie rock, then burn out, disappearing into an "indefinite hiatus".
Meanwhile, phony memoirists get hailed (initially) on Oprah, and gasbag talk-show actors (they are not journalists, by a long shot) become millionaires as paragons of truth.
Got hailed as a warrior for playing in pain, wearing a plastic mask to protect his broken nose.
Paul Ryan has been running around for years with a supposed fiscal plan constructed largely out of magic asterisks, and got hailed as a Bold Truthteller.
Click here to view Every three months, some pre-pubescent child comes along and gets hailed as the new Justin Bieber.
"Even if you get hit with hail, the worst thing you lose is production for one year".
But jeez, at least go up and get the Hail Mary.
They'll get the hail before anyone else".
In the meantime they had a daughter, and Ms. Dick ran a jewelry business; Dick grew a beard and wrote some of the novels that would eventually get him hailed as a West Coast Calvino or Borges.
