Is it okay to recycle material from Twitter? I feel okay stealing other people’s lines, if I positively can’t remember who owns it. There’s a great Coltrane line about tradition as “a big reservoir that we all dip out of.” That’s been reduced to today’s “hive-mind,” and while it makes my skin crawl, it provides all sorts of convenient excuses for an Internet that has gotten almost impossible to track in terms of ownership and originality. Still, I get uneasy at the thought of really using the thing as a notebook, in part because I worry that these days, my web presence amounts largely to Twitter outbursts during NBA playoff games.
However, I’ll break through the pain here, and reiterate this one true thing about Dirk Nowitzki: The Big German, as he’s affectionately known is Dallas, is not Larry Bird.
