Bowie Fragments
Bowie died yesterday. I, I wish I could swim like the dolphins can swim. I thought it peculiar that Bowie somehow had an actual age. David Bowie, 69, the news said. That struck me as very earthy. And wrong in a way that can't be fixed as far as we know. And then as quite understandable given Bowie's mediated and ageless presence. My friend David Blatt gets it right with this memory of growing up in Edmonton and learning about David Bowie. And trying to get a glimpse of yourself in the mirror after learning about David Bowie. Of all the automatic bleat written about Bowie's legacy, Blatt verbs the truth. Bowie thrilled and confused and slightly frightened us. Thanks, David. "Are you sad that Bowie died?" a friend at work asked "I am," I said. "Bowie news makes me sad," I wrote another friend on Twitter. "But want to live." Not sure where that "but want to live" came from. It wasn't there when I started wri...