Lifes Rich Pageant
If social media has any use at all and, increasingly, I would argue it's just a succession of stultifying blows to the head, it's as an ongoing memento mori. Every day it shuffles its deck of mass cards, as everyone you ever loved off the telly takes turns at dying. This week it was Bill Oddie, and people were posting their hot takes on what our birder of hearts meant to them. I did it myself. People's childhoods were ruined all day, even as the usual edgelords picked the day of his death as the moment to try and link him to Operation Yewtree, without success, so far as I can see. Bill was prickly and contrarian and suffered terrible depression, but there was no stain on his character, even if there were a great many on his utility vest. Social media also excels at the "Wanna feel old?" meme. The answer to that is, no, of course not, but here we are anyway. It says: "Hey, remember that thing you love from your childhood? Well it happened a really long ti...
