My goodness

Apparently Pete Seeger is still alive. Who knew?

How did the old song go?

“They gave him his orders at Party headquarters,
Sayin’, “Pete, you’re way behind time –
It is not ‘38 but 1957,

and there’s been a change in the Party line.”

Something like that, anyway.

6 Comments


  1. So’s David Coleman.

    Quote | Posted 2 February, 2007, 1:35 pm

  2. Of balls fame?

    Quote | Posted 3 February, 2007, 4:13 pm

  3. I think it’s something about getting older. I keep hearing of people who used to be famous and saying “S/he’s not still alive, is s/he?” - only to find quite often they’re only a year or two older than me.

    Quote | Posted 3 February, 2007, 4:35 pm

  4. Impressive, but not as impressive as Claude Lévi-Strauss who’s gone on longer than Bertrand Russell now.

    Quote | Posted 3 February, 2007, 5:07 pm

  5. Yes — it was one of Perry Anderson’s LRB articles not so long ago about intellectual life in France which pointed out that CL-S was still alive, and that prompted a similar “bloody hell” like reaction.

    Quote | Posted 5 February, 2007, 12:37 pm

  6. Kewl, Pete Seeger is someone I should go back to.

    Quote | Posted 11 February, 2007, 12:29 am

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