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The Teenage Years of Jesus

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Lee van Laer
Jan 28, 2025
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I am going to make an exception here and depart from my meandering, indirect style of reportage to get straight to the point and skip over all the gory details.

The 21st century sucked.

It was all I could do to go there for a single brief moment to steal the cell phone with Plumbic Dirigible… I mean Led Zeppelin… songs on it. I know the band is named Led Zeppelin but I can’t ever stop thinking of them by their original name Plumbic Dirigible BTW. Once you think of a band by one name it’s very hard to change such a thought, even though honestly I’m the one who talked Jimmy Page into changing the name in the first place. And thank God I talked him out of renaming themselves Led Zeppeling because when when you put “ing” on anything (such as anyth for example) it somehow trivializes it, don’t you think? I mean, if they had been named Led Zeppeling it would have been a whole different deal.

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