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Happy birthday Nathan bubble letters3/20/2024 ![]() I know Twitter has started to make some moves in this direction, but not to the point where it doesn’t needlessly terrify me at least once a day. ![]() It’s a little tweak that could keep a whole lot of people from being scared and sad unnecessarily. You don’t necessarily have to do something as crass as include the hashtag #Notdead alongside Brooks’ blessed name, but would it kill you to specify that he’s turning 95, not ceasing to live? I am invariably relieved to discover that they’re still with us and that we won’t be subjected to mawkish memorial cartoons clumsily referencing their best-known work but it puts a little strain on my nervous system to be confronted with the possible death of beloved celebrities multiple times a day. When I see that a celebrity in their eighties or nineties is trending on Twitter I naturally assume that they’ve died. These wonderful, much-loved icons will probably die in the not too distant future and we’ll probably find out about it on Facebook and Twitter, where the mourning process will immediately begin and quickly mutate into something weird and mawkish and self-congratulatory. Thanks to advances in medical technology and also the fact that rich, famous people can afford the best of everything, there are any number of living legends leading rich, full lives deep into their eighties and nineties. ![]() I wish that Charles Grodin could have lived as long as one of those weird old turtles that make it to a 175 but we all wake up every morning knowing the following incontrovertible facts: That’s how I learned that Charles Grodin died. But my response to seeing Brooks trending on Twitter was understandable because Brooks is very old and it has become all too common to learn about someone’s death on social media.
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