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Sir Bob Geldof and Bill Clinton Team Up To Aid African Education Project

Karen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:32:00 GMT

Sir Bob Geldof and Bill Clinton have launched an education project for Africa to the tune of $9.4 MILLION dollars!

The aim of the project is to provide more access to schools for 1.2 million children in Malawi and Rwanda.

The money will go towards the building of four new training centres and 4,000 teachers to help give African kids a better start in life.

Clinton says, "We are trying to make a hole in the huge need Rwanda and Malawi have for primary teachers."

Geldof adds, "It's what Live 8 was all about."

Sounds like a very worthy cause!

Happy Father's Day, Bob Geldof

Whit Honea — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:02:00 GMT

Bob Geldof has done some impressing things in his time, starring in The Wall, organizing Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8, and of course coming up with some of the most interesting baby names ever: Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, and Little Pixie. This is him with Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. He didn't name her, but she fits right in. Is there a Peter Pan theme there or is that just me?

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To Sir Bob Geldof, With(out) Love

Whit Honea — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:47:00 GMT

Is "Saint" Bob Geldof all that? He did form Band Aid, you know that Christmas song where George Michael and Bananarama are going to feed the world, so that's pretty cool. He did form Live Aid, you know that show on 2 continents that had Phil Collins playing both via a trip on the Conchord, so that's pretty cool. More recently he was behind the Live 8 series of shows, which, you guessed it, were pretty cool.

Now Bob is being labeled "Satan" which seems to conflict with his charitable image. It does bring to mind his spin as the main character in Pink Floyd's "The Wall," but come on, he was acting. That would be like assuming Sean Penn is big asshole just because he always plays a big asshole in his movies (notable exceptions: Fast Times and I am Sam).

Geldof's ex-wife Paula Yates, deceased, left Bob back in the day for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who coincidentally also had the devil inside. Long story short, Yates and Hutchence had a daughter together, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (really), then they both died crazy rock and roll deaths.

Geldof took in Tiger Lily (I can't say that name enough. Why didn't I consider the cast of Peter Pan when thinking of baby names?) and has more or less, for better or worse, severed ties with her Australian grandmother Patricia Glassop, who, to bring this winding road full-circle, is the one throwing the "Satan" stuff around. The lady wants to see her granddaughter.

You like how I don't make my point until the end of the damn post? Interesting stuff though, isn't it?

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