When I returned from evensong last night, after I had ironed five shirts
and read a bedtime story to my loving (but strangely uncommunicative)
teddy bears, I sat down with a hot cup of Horlicks to enjoy two hours of
high quality Sunday night viewing.
I don't know why but I have always had an interest in 'conspiracy
theories'. When I was a lad, I was convinced that
- Marilyn Monroe was killed by the Kennedy brothers.
- Ashley Grimes was a undercover Manchester City spy.
- JFK was assassinated by Norma Jeane Mortenson from the grassy knoll.
- UFO's had landed at Roswell and probably deposited Ashley Grimes.
Of course, that was then. This is now. Back then I was a boy. Now I am a
man (sort of). With the passing years, I have matured and changed my
beliefs accordingly.
- 9/11 was instigated by the US government in order to invade
Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Lady Diana (Princess Of Our Hearts) was assassinated by an Italian
Pizza chef, driving a white Fiat Punto on the orders of Prince
Phillip (The Greek).
- Kurt Cobain's death was directly or indirectly arranged by Courtney
Love.
Imagine my horror, when last night's BBC
Conspiracy Files
tells me that 9/11 was the work of Al Qaeda terrorist cells coupled with
failings by the US intelligence services.
This revelation shocked me. I was stunned. I was struggling to
assimilate this bombshell which opened to question so many of my dearly
held beliefs. To ease the pain, I poured the Horlicks down the sink and
cracked open a Grolsch.
I quickly switched channels to FA Cup Match of The Day in an effort to
restore a sense of normality. Another conspiracy - Manchester City had
avoided an FA Cup giant-killing and beaten Preston.
That's it. I can't take any more. I am going to bed. Only I couldn't. I
had to stay up to watch another deep, probing, investigative BBC program
to finally which would surely prove that I am not clinically insane and
confirm (or at least keep faintly alive) just one of my conspiracy
theories.
Unfortunately,'The last 48 hours of Kurt Cobain' proposed the ridiculous
assertion that Kurt Cobain was a manic depressive, heroin addict in
denial with wild mood swings, depressed at his sought after fame and
cult status, desperate to escape an unhappy marriage but simultaneously
petrified of being denied access to his two year old daughter.
After another brief and unsuccessful attempt in rehab, Cobain embarked
on yet another drug binge in Seattle before penning a suicide note and
shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.
So the fact that Cobain's body had massive amounts of heroin that would
have rendered him incapable of pulling the trigger, the fact that
another hand wrote the closing line 'Please keep going Courtney, for
Frances' and the curious fact that Cobain carefully tidied away his drug
paraphernalia when dead are all just examples of yet another conspiracy
theory.