Ono Licenses Lennon's Image

Carefully walking a tightrope between generous charity work and shameless exploitation, John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono has agreed to let her deceased husband appear in commercials asking citizens to donate money to help provide laptops to the Third World. The thirty second spot which will begin running thanks to advertising space donated by cable channels features the Beatle saying he tried to change the world through music but needs your help in changing it through technology. How special.

According to NME, the charity in question is the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, and their goals are stated succinctly in the organization’s moniker. The computers sell for about two hundred and fifty dollars and the public is being asked to chip in as much as they can. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m down with handing out the internet to the whole world, but using a deceased man’s likeness as a guilt trip to open people’s wallets is, frankly, ridiculous. Who the fuck does Yoko Ono think she is? Honestly, I know she was married to Lennon, but she shouldn’t own his memory. If I die and my wife agrees to let PETA use my writing to get the masses to stop eating bacon, I’ll come back from the grave and strangle the bitch with my bare hands.

Watch the advertisement and decide for yourself…