We happened to be reading a biography of Led Zeppelin just before seeing the footage of Shia LeBeouf's recent appearance on the David Letterman show, where he talked about his getting arrested on his twenty-first birthday for making serial nocturnal appearances at a Walgreens while "pretty wasted." And that may have had something to do with our first reaction, which was sort of along the lines of, they sure don't make bad boys the way they used to. We like LaBeouf, we wish him well, and we wouldn't want him doing anything that might force Harrison Ford to put the lad over his knee. But still, you only turn twenty-one once, and a lot of people turn twenty-one before they have access to fame, riches, and admiring young women whose appreciation for your natural delighfulness is thrown into even greater relief by all those riches and fame you're storing in the glove compartment. We're not saying that you ought to get arrested to commemorate the event. But if you do get arrested, the circumstances should in no way involve a late-night shopping trip in quest of Clearasil.
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