Listening to the radio while driving back to my office after lunch, I heard a story about the statue of John Lennon in Havana, Cuba. I wondered, how old of a man does the statue appear to be? He was young when he died. That let me to go look up a fact and I realized: I am older now than John Lennon was when he died. So of course I’m mentally off balance now.
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore. House Likko's Words: Scite Verum. Colite Iusticia. Vivere Con Gaudium.
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The statue of John Lennon is between the ones of Groucho Marx and Georgia Engel. (Castro claims he meant to do that.)Report
I have never appreciated JFK more than I do at this moment.Report
And if you’re not already, you will also soon be older than Elvis at the time of his death.Report
Someday I hope to be older than Methuselah.Report
I imagine you probably are already (I mean, what are the odds he was a real guy?)Report
Not possible. God limited the human lifespan to 120 when Moses died because nobody is allowed to live longer than Moses.Report
James, even if he is fictional you have to base his age on how old the Book of Genesis is.Report
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Eh, whut?Report
If you say that you want to live longer than a fictional character, you determine how long you have to live based on the year the character first appeared. In that way, nobody can outlive a fictional character.Report
Oh, well fortunately Chris is also a fictional character. I created him as an alter ego.Report
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So awesome that you wanna dip your…
Eh, never mind.Report
Very very alter, as you can see.
As any author will tell you, characters sometimes take on a life of their own. I really meant him to be a sociology prof at Columbia who thought popular music was a form of cultural hegemony over the subaltern so nobody would take him seriously, but before I knew it I was writing a psych prof at Texas with really eclectic musical tastes, and people seemed to like him.Report
And you’re already older than Mozart, Schubert, or Chopin ever got to be.Report
Or Sid Vicious, to complete the quartet of great composers.Report
Damn, I always forget him. He’s like the Zeppo of classical music.Report
I was older than 80% of the 2012 NBA All-Star starters. I was 28 at the time.Report
Welcome to the club…Report