Bob Dylan circa 1965 was a young genius. Bob Dylan today may just end up inside your car.
Some news is bad, some news is good, and some news is ... fantastic.
How would you like to hear Bob Dylan coming out of your GPS, telling you where to turn, how far you are from your destination, and not to drive into a nearby lake?
That's right — Bob Dylan claimed on his radio show that he was negotiating to turn up as a GPS control voice. It is news so wonderful that it causes a kind of joke-lock. Bob Dylan? As the "Turn left" guy? Really?
[Note: I should have known this was too good to be true. He was kidding. I shall now step up and take my licks. Fortunately, the badness of the invited jokes still stands. I profoundly apologize for not following it back far enough, though. I followed it as far as the reports of the broadcast comments, but not the original context. My fault, totally.]
(Side note: We're all friends here, so I think I can tell you that I can only get through about ten words of any article about Bob Dylan without loudly saying "Be groovy or leave!" in my Bob Dylan voice, which is entirely the fault of several guys I used to be friends with who quoted incessantly from Don't Look Back. Really, you should blame them.)
Let us break the joke-lock. I think we can assume all variations on the words "No direction home" are taken. That's too easy. That's just taking the joke they're throwing to you. It's beneath us all. All other attempts, however, are not beneath any of us. So far, I have most thoroughly humiliated myself internally with, "Don't think twice, babe, it's a right." (GET IT? I am so sorry.)
Now, it is your turn. In today's fictional universe, Bob Dylan is your GPS guide. What do you hear him saying?
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