Myth of Fingerprints
I was reading some brief obits for some dear departed music industrians in Paste, and found it interesting to see the cause of death listed in each case. You may have pioneered the use of somethingernother and been the first suchandsuch of your generation, but you'd better keep your passing simple in order to have room for information about the things in your life you had some enjoyment in. A little luck, and your failed organs will get less print than your lived achievements, relationships, experiences. Anyway, it's an interesting human quality (or maybe just Western/American quality?) that we want cause-of-death information, as if that has some relation to the meaning or contribution of a person's life.
In a related story, Paul Simon's promotional pics accompanying the release of Surprise are really creeping me out. Is the surprise that he's joined the cast of Star Trek?
In a related story, Paul Simon's promotional pics accompanying the release of Surprise are really creeping me out. Is the surprise that he's joined the cast of Star Trek?
