Unbelievable

Unbloodybelievable. The Sunday Business Post today published a poll in which 54% of those polled said they did not believe Bertie Ahern's tribunal ramblings. I'm amazed. I'm amazed that 46% of those polled believed him. How crazy does his explanations have to get before people finally click that he's a lying snake? "Well no, that money is actually a transient shape-shifting being that intermittently appears in my account with no record of how it gets there or where it goes." We've got to be so close to a "Few Good Men" style showdown next month, with truth-handling allegations being thrown back and forth between Bertie and Des O'Neill. Wouldn't you be foaming at the mouth if you were O'Neill and you were that close to nailing the slippery eel but he kept on getting away?

Anyway it's obviously not as important as news that Guns N Roses' "Chinese Democracy" album is finished. Done. Ready for release in mid 2008. This rumour (Amazon has been doing pre-orders since 2002!) has circulated many times before but apparently this really is it. Its taken an incredible 16 years for what will surely be one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of all time, maybe even more than Ace of Base's follow up to The Sign (which incidentally went Diamond: Platinum x10). In order to not be the thing which turns Axl Rose into the first Vanilla Ice of the 21st century it's going to have to be well, the greatest rock album of all time. No pressure so. The thing I'm wondering though is does this man look like he could be behind it? He's gone a bit sunburnt Dennis Quaid meets a white Jesse Jackson...


UPDATE: Hear the new leaked track 'Better' here