In this world fueled by commercial hype and belief in anything that lacks substance, it is easy to understand why things no longer lose their appeal to the hip so much as just get replaced by the next new thing, whether it is NuTheft , the vacuous embarrassment of the next encyclical by an atheist belief system columnist like Christopher Hitchens or a new unuseful but still useable widget to provide the same function as the last widget you wasted your money on. Elaborate nothings. There is some hope that the kids are turning on Facebook but the real news today is the announcement of the end of YouTube marked by the creation of space for the Queen.

In any other phase of the post-jazz era, such would be the kiss of death. But not in this era of the mandatory adoption, of the told and the follower.