Archive for October, 2010

Cancer-Free and Radioactive to Boot

Sunday, October 31st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

In an article in The New York Times this past Monday, Matthew L. Wald writes about the renewed debate surrounding radioactive iodine, a popular and effective treatment for thyroid cancer. Strangely, the concern is not for the patients who swallow ...

Keef

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richard's surprisingly translucent memoir, "Life," made its way onto bookstore shelves Monday. With the help of diariesĀ and lettersĀ (for memory-jogging) and journalist James Fox (for literary sprucing-up-ing) the 66 year-old icon offers up a blow by ...

Elderism #86

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"Everybody wants to know, 'How old are you?' And of course, I am happy to tell them that I am as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth." -97 year-old A.M.E. Logan, in an article in Mississippi's ...

Elderism #85

Friday, October 15th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"...sleeping three hours a night, he scored the Frank Sinatra film Assault on a Queen, performed concerts in Wichita, Little Rock, and San Francisco, recorded the Sinatra score in Los Angeles while playing a three-night gig at Disneyland, then left ...

Humiliation Hits The Airwaves

Friday, October 15th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Henry guested on Faith Middleton's Food Schmooze on WNPR-Connecticut Public Radio this week to relive the "flunkadelic" visit a New York City health department inspector recently paid to his apartment kitchen. And for those who currently find themselves in a public ...

10 Things to Talk About This Weekend

Friday, October 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Who thinks she got a diploma from Hogwarts; how Philip Roth spends his time on the day the Nobel Prize for literature is announced; and more. From the New York Times.

Elderism #77, #78, #79, #80, #81, #82, #83, and #84

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"Oh God...Well what does he think? That it's going to run away or something? That he's got to hold on to it? I don't know. There's something wrong with him. Nobody's going to up and steal it from him." -Then-octogenarian Marie ...

Elderism #76

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"A happy life is entirely dependent on the rest of the community. I love my watch, but if I kiss my watch the watch has no ability to return affection." -The Dalai Lama, in Evan Osnos's long, detailed look at the ...