Elderism #59
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting." -Queen Victoria
I Shall Wear My Trousers Rolled
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »One of the observations I make in "How to Live" is that old age, like divorce, can be more difficult for men than for women because men tend to have fewer social networks than women do. Also, some older women ...
Older Folks Who Are Not Doing What You Think They’re Doing
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »-Philip Roth: The New Grace Jones? According to Galleycat, the journalist James Marcus has used a sample of Philip Roth shouting--taken from an interview Marcus did with the literary great--to create a dance remix called "The Jewish Shouting Mix 3" -Buzz ...
Ortgasbord
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have a story in today's New York Times about leftovers--or, as we crossword puzzle-doers know them, orts. (The story is here.) And just minutes ago I was granted the opportunity to be on John Hockenberry's public radio show, "The ...
Elderism #58
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"If you are an old man and you go into a bar wearing pajamas, people will buy you drinks." -A resident of the Duplex Nursing Home, as quoted in the zine, Duplex Planet
Viva vecchi!
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Some weeks ago, my book about the wisdom of old folks, "How to Live", received a lovely three-page write-up in the magazine section of Italy's lefty newspaper, La Repubblica, for which I'm entirely grateful. I've been remiss in acknowledging the ...
More Gloria Vanderbilt
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A little something from page 5 of Obsession: An Erotic Tale, the new novel by octogenarian Gloria Vanderbilt, mother of newsman Anderson Cooper: "I have filled a bowl with warm, sugared cream ready to circle my breasts, exciting them to swell ...
Elderism #57
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The writer Ellis Weiner's mother, to him: "Hip is shit!"
Elderism #56
Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Groucho Marx, to a chatty bore: "You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle."
Elderism #55
Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In her new novel, Obsession: An Erotic Tale, octogenarian Gloria Vanderbilt allows as how one can slather oneself with gardenia oil and a touch of honey aphrodisiac such that one "can let loose shaking onto the breasts a goodly amount of ...
