Resonant Frequency  "Happy Birthday, Kurt"   Mark Richardson ,
February 20, 2013  "Happy Birthday, Kurt"  Had he lived, Kurt
Cobain would have turned 46 years old today. A middle-aged man
on his way to being 50. And if this February 20 is like the last
few, my Twitter feed will be clogged with remembrances. A "Happy
Birthday, Kurt," especially if it comes from someone famous,
will be retweeted hundreds of times. Imagine yourself being
wished a happy birthday in public, by strangers, after you were
dead. It's an odd thing. But, from another angle, it makes
perfect sense: It's teenagers leaving flowers at Jim Morrison's
grave, without the plane fare to Paris. The eternal romance of
the untimely death. As Lindsay Zoladz wrote in her Ordinary
Machines column last week, people are still figuring out how to
mourn online. Death in a world of binary numbers might mean
something different. John Cage, writing in Silence, said,
"Mushrooms grow most vigorously in the fall, the period of
destruction, and the function of m