Elderism #62
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing. We've got to face that. And if that's true, do we want to give drugs so that people won't weep? No, because if we do, poetry will die. The rhyming of rhymes is ...
Elderism # 61
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"I'm going to get in bed, and I don't have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books. And I know that's kind of weird and solitary and pathetic. But if you think ...
Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In his new memoir, True Compass, we learn that Ted Kennedy, when trying to decide whether to run for Senate in 1962, remembered what his father had told him as a child: "You can have a serious life or a ...
Car Rides That Might Get a Little Abstract
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »According to the BBC, Bob Dylan is talking to a number of car companies about being the voice of their satellite navigation systems.
No One To Talk To
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »There's a fairly heartbreaking story by Patricia Leigh Brown in today's New York Times about how the ethnic elderly are among the most isolated people in America. They're America's fastest-growing immigrant group (in California one in nearly three seniors is ...
Elderism #60
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Ray Charles, then blind for 67 years, in 2003: "It would be a real bitch if I ever lost my hearing. I know I couldn't be no Helen Keller. That would be worse than death."
The Larry Stage
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »James Wolcott writes amusingly in Vanity Fair that Larry King Live, through its bizarro coverage of the deaths of David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, has become "the funeral parlor of the gods." Wolcott writes of King, ...
I Was Tim Gunn
Friday, August 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The folks at Bravo who brought us Project Runway are working on a new reality series--this one about visual artists--to air in 2010. Although the show isn't called So You Want to Be an Artist (the producers haven't decided on a ...
Strawberry Fields Forever
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have a story in the New York Times today (it is here) about VeggieTrader.com, a site that is essentially Craigslist for homegrown produce (you can swap or sell homegrown produce or plants on it). My apartment is now brimming ...
Hair Is Architecture
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »81 year-old coiffure legend Vidal Sassoon--who helped define the"mod" look, and who created both Mia Farrow's pixie look for Rosemary's Baby and fashion designer Mary Quant's asymmetrical bob--tells public radio's Studio 360 this weekend about what inspired him: architecture. Raised ...
