Explosions and beheadings roil Iraq, but the Spice Girls—Ginger Spice included!—are reuniting for a world tour. “I think for us it was about celebrating the past, enjoying each other and it’s about our fans. It was the right time,” said Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell.
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Seems the Chig-whibt (CGWBT), as a niche, is a comer. Or has it already come and gone? This stuff is sooooooo hard to keep up with. One may just as well stand still.
That said, the Spices are a variety of life. Aren't they?
Posted by: ahfukit | June 29, 2007 at 07:29 AM
They are billing it as the Don't Stop Philanthropy's Attempts to End Poverty world tour. At least they won't be impoverished (as others will be) when it ends.
Posted by: Bruce Trachtenberg | June 29, 2007 at 08:36 AM
the poor will always be with us, but how long before the Spice Girlz have had so much plastic surgery that their eyes end up on top of their heads?
Posted by: i.a.t. | June 29, 2007 at 08:58 AM
It's at times like this that I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ah....
Posted by: Nick | June 29, 2007 at 09:59 AM
Me too. And let's be charitable, i.a.t. All flesh will go the way of all flesh, but some roads to the final super-stadium will be more scenic than others.
Is there a remake of Faster Pussycat, Kill! ... Kill! in the wind?
Posted by: Albert | June 29, 2007 at 10:28 AM