Archive for June, 2009

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 ...

Dawn’s End

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From The Golden Spur, comic novelist Dawn Powell's last book, published in 1962, when Powell was 65: "But you had so little time left, and it seemed as if you dared not stop running for a minute. You didn't run to ...

New Old

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

On other blogs: -Alex Littlefield reveals Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak's favorite-ever book title. (It's not I Married Adventure. Nor is it My Wicked, Wicked Way or even Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard.) -There's a new season of Old ...

How I Took a Former Gang Member to See the New Broadway Production of “West Side Story”

Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

There are few more amusing sights to me than that of gang members who erupt into a frenzy of Sondheim lyrics and precision choreography. So a couple months ago I had the somewhat nutty idea that it would be fun ...

Gavelinas

Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

There was an interesting article in the Times the other day by Neil A. Lewis re whether female judges judge differently from male ones. The issue has come up not only because of the Supreme Court nomination of  Sonia SotomayOR ...