Comments on: Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives

sudama — Sat, 17 May 2003 23:51:24 -0800

Don't let the minute spoil the hour. Ted Joans Lives!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 18 May 2003 08:00:37 -0800

How very interesting, sudama - thanks a million. I can truthfully say I knew nothing about this remarkable man - not even that he was the author of the phrase "Bird lives" - and now I feel honestly better. This is what MetaFilter and the Web are truly for and yet, when we see a name we haven't really heard of, we don't click. Then we complain about posts that are always about the familiar. Quite a weird little race, the human.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 18 May 2003 08:22:52 -0800

Carlos Quevedo Lives!

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Sun, 18 May 2003 11:38:50 -0800

This is what MetaFilter and the Web are truly for. . . How true, how true. Thanks for the link. and yet, when we see a name we haven't really heard of, we don't click. . . Well, we could. We might even learn something. Quite a weird little race, the human. . . One weird thing: people who wait till somebody dies, and then start proclaiming that "he lives." It seems, in a way, like they "doth protest too much." If somebody really did live (i.e. remained with us in spirit), you wouldn't have to go around shouting about it. On the other hand (to stay down here in Clicheland), "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." p.s. Actually, Bird took terrible care of himself and is now dead. Sonny Rollins (who I much prefer) lives.