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Friend Me, Tag Me, Call Me in the Morning
January 6, 2012
(The following is the tenth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend, blogging-wise.) London Daughter has asked that I write about […]
Good News for Seniors: It’s Getting Easier to Get A Date
December 6, 2011
ABC Evening News featured that startling revelation last week. The latest U.S. Census Bureau accounting of older Americans has revealed that the senior population is not only larger than ever before, at 40.3 million, it also includes a larger proportion of men, given their increasing life expectancy. In 1990 there were only 82.7 men for […]
Writing A Novel Without Writing
November 14, 2011
At lunch, the other day, my friend Libby and I were sharing the progress of our respective novels. Me: My novel is sitting behind my printer under a pile of blank copy paper and all the communication from the IRS regarding my 2003 tax return. Libby: Why not just finish it? Me: Unfortunately, the IRS doesn’t […]
Extreme Couponing and You
November 1, 2011
Unless you have been living in my dryer’s lint trapper or have been spending all your time keeping track all the Republican nominee wannabees, you are probably aware of the latest extreme sport to hit reality TV. Added to cliffjumping, basejumping, bodyboarding, and Red Bull Fierste Ljepper, is what may have become the most dangerous extreme […]
Teaching Children US History via Halloween Costumes
October 28, 2011
Huffington Post has a piece on what they think might be the “worst Halloween costume of all time.” It’s a World War II Evacuee costume, sold on amazon.co.uk for an amount equal to about $18. According to the Huffington Post via blogger Nick Douglas, editor of Slacktory.com, the Halloween costume was created for “National Commemoration […]
My Night With Ashton
October 16, 2011
The cover story of the October 24 issue of US Magazine is an interview titled “My Night With Ashton,” in which 22 year old Sara Leal claims she had sex with Ashton Kutcher (actor, celeb, camera monger) on the night of his sixth wedding anniversary to Demi Moore (actress, celeb) The US reporter asks Leal some hard-hitting questions, […]
The Rise of Sexist Nostalgia
October 4, 2011
More Magazine now alerts us to what they call “Fall’s Worst Trend: Sexist Nostalgia.” Spurred on by the rampant success of Mad Men, the show about a Madison Ave advertising agency at the start of the 60s, TV is now presenting Pan Am, a show about flight attendants, and The Playboy Club, a show about, […]
A Guide to Life After 50
September 13, 2011
AARP, the folks who used to be scary until we woke up one morning and realized we were one of them, continues to be concerned about the likelihood of us embarrassing ourselves because we have inadvertently lived long enough to remember the day rocks were invented. They present a list of Don’ts by world-renowned author Jacqueline Mitchard. […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 1
January 16, 2012
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Welcome to a five-part series of reposts, a veritable cornucopia of past drivel, a best of, a past hits, a test of quantum physics. If all reality isn’t reality at all, and if everything is happening at the same time with no past, present, or future, then not only isn’t this a repost, the events portrayed are […]