Sometimes when you do a search on Google, down at the bottom of the page, Google will show you a bunch of “related searches” that it thinks you might be interested in (since, if you scrolled all the way to the bottom, they assume you didn’t find what you wanted in the first 10 results).

I was checking out the search results for U2 today, and these are the phrases Google thinks are related:

What does Google know that we don’t? The possibilities are endless!

The Columbus Dispatch reports that trends in eyeglasses for spring are going in circles.

How does this impact the most famous shade-wearing front-man? Apparently he’s changing with the times. He was recently seen in France wearing a pair of more conservative specs.

No word yet on whether the new look will carry through to next year’s tour.

Whilst watching the new French film The Diving Bell & the Butterfly last night I was delighted to find that ‘Ultraviolet (Light My Way)’ was being played in one of the scenes. The film is superb regardless though, and I urge anyone with an appreciation of independent cinema to see it. It follows the life of the former editor of the French magazine Elle as he tries to cope with living with ‘lock-down syndrome,’ a condition he develops in the wake of a stroke, which leaves him paralysed except for the lid of his left eye, which he uses to communicate by winking. Does it not have an echo of a similar condition experienced by Christopher Nolan, the subject of another U2 song? Altogether now: “I wanna trip inside you head, spend the day there……”

A comment on my last blog gave me an idea for a new one, and then Tassoula dared me to do it. So now I must. (Or should I have waited for the triple-dog dare before giving in?)

We were discussing the pros and cons of “Across the Universe” (starring our favorite lead singer as the Timothy Leary-esque Dr. Robert). I loved it; Tassoula found the “winks” to the Beatles jokes annoying. One example: A new character is introduced when she climbs in out of the rain through an open window in the main characters’ apartment. When someone asks “Where did she come from?” the obvious answer is (wait for it): She came in through the bathroom window. (Get it? Get it?)

Then reader u2rules suggested:

I think Tassoula just fears that in 40 years a U2-homage movie will come out with giant moles digging holes and other terribly obvious “winks”!

So, dear readers, what other “terribly obvious ‘winks’” would just ruin a U2-homage movie? I’ll go first:

Perhaps a tortoise in reading glasses strolls by with his nose in a book?

Maybe someone points out to his companion a cupid in dark sunglasses walking with a white cane, and the companion turns away and says, “I don’t want to see!”

Now it’s your turn. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Bono made an appearance recently in the comic ‘Pearls Before Swine.’ Links are here:

www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20080208.html

www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20080209.html

Whilst trying to avoid doing any work I recently discovered that some amusing things come up if you type ‘U2′ into the Onion’s website. Hope it helps you to procrastinate as much as me…….

http://www.theonion.com/content/search/onion/advanced?search=U2&restrict=