Yet again, Bowie copies me...

[Dookus]

sigh... when will he start being original?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040708/en_afp/afplifestyle_music_040708191254

BERLIN (AFP) - British pop legend David Bowie (news) reportedly underwent heart surgery in Germany last month prompting him to cancel his European tour.

Bowie had required medical treatment June 26 after performing at a festival in the northwestern German town of Scheesel, reportedly for a pinched nerve in a shoulder.

But according to the German daily Hamburger Morgenpost, the 57-year-old rocker had an acutely blocked artery requiring emergency surgery.

Chief cardiologist Karl-Heinz Kuck at St. Georg Hospital in the northern city of Hamburg performed a so-called "stent" procedure with balloon angioplasty, in which a mesh-like metal device is placed into an artery at a site narrowed by plaque.

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I had this done 18 months ago. I was also into space stuff in early '70s. What a copycat.

[Triana]

1. glad you and he are still around! (n/t)

[Dookus]

2. thank you...

so am I ;)

[Triana]

4. i just wish

...his website didn't suck so much, or i'd spend more time there!

Oh well...whatda expect for a place run by wingnutz?

[Dookus]

6. god, doesn't it?

I joined awhile ago and quit. The design was so godawful. I adore Bowie, but he has a "thing" for unreadable text - try to read any of his liner notes.

Also, after quitting, the company that ran his billing continued to bill me for months. I had to report them to the NY Attorney-General's office before they finally stopped billing me and refunded my money. Crooks.

[Triana]

7. i can believe it...

they've royally screwed mine up too though not recently...the pink udder design is gawdawful and the company running it (they might be OK, dunno) seems to have hired some real chest-beating, knuckle-dragging wingnut types to work and manage the site now. They used to have nice personnel a year or so ago, but seem to have long since dumped them for a couple of fullofthemselves 20-something wingnuts who are barely out of their diapers and call themselves techies because they got 6 months of experience playing with a website someplace-and it is overrun with wingnuts in general (members) too, it looks like.

Sad that Bowie's site is eaten up like that because I really love the guy, but it's understandable that he doesn't have the time to personally oversee it so it's got to be left to some company to do it.

egh.

[swag]

3. Did Elton copy you with "Rocket Man?"

I thought that that sounded more like you than Elton.

[Dookus]

5. No

but I was wearing platform shoes long before Elton.

[bloodyjack]

8. did you get hit in the eye with a lollipop too?

[chaska]

9. Mmm, daily hamburger.

Maybe that's what got Bowie in that fix.