You can only be Avant-Garde for so long before you become Garde

Now is the time at Ed Driscoll.com when we juxtapose:

• Bono pledged to “the youth of America” to “continue to abuse our position and f*** up the mainstream.”

— Daily Variety’s report on the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, March 3rd, 1994.

• Video: “Bono sings at Sargent Shriver’s funeral.”

— Ann Althouse, yesterday.

(Concept via SDA; headline via Anne Beatts.)