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  1. tonyb

    Funeral arrangements

    I’m a bit envious. I have blood relatives going back to the mid-1800s buried behind a countryside church in Wisconsin. That’s not in the cards for me, seeing how my father died when I was four months old and my mother remarried and my connections with that world, while not entirely severed, were...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^^ I recall Willie saying several years ago that he turned down an offer to record “The Gambler.” He said he knew it would be a big hit (as it was, for Kenny Rogers) and he didn’t want to have to play it every night for the rest of his working life. Willie’s book is so deep that he has...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ Willie Nelson recently had his 91st birthday. The lovely missus and I attended a live outdoor show of Willie and his band about five years ago. The star attraction sat on a chair for most of the performance while his older sister Bobbie (since deceased) on piano and Mickey Raphael on...
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    (Don't know if this has been done before but) Movies so Traumatizing You Could Only Watch It Once.

    “Nekromantik” I saw it in a little art house not long after its release. I have since forgiven the person who suggested we go see it. But it took a while.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    The songwriters say otherwise. But it’s understandable how a person might think that.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I fear I’d be embarrassed for myself for attending a Rolling Stones show these days. An old girlfriend and I were in the audience during the Seattle stop on the Sinatra/Sammy Davis Jr./Dean Martin tour (but Martin bowed out mid-tour and was replaced by Liza Minnelli) back in, like, 1988(?). So...
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    Don't Call me. And for Heaven's Sake, Don't Knock: 21st Century Taboos.

    Telephone and door-to-door soliciting are disrespectful of the receivers’ time. They are demanding of our attention, which, you know, is kinda rude, seeing how they take us away from what we’d rather be doing. I let calls from numbers I don’t recognize go to voicemail. Most auto-dialed...
  9. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I did some looking into the etymology of “nostalgia” and learned that it originally meant something akin to “homesickness” and was literally considered an illness by physicians treating soldiers who found themselves far from home and all that was familiar. (Fearing for one’s own life might have...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ That really sucks. My condolences.
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Same stuff, a cursory search indicates. It went from prescription only to over-the-counter here in God’s Country in 2020. I’ve found it much more effective for relief of joint pain than oral NSAIDs. I’m guessing it’s safer, too, but I’ll go over that with the physician when I see him next week.
  13. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … you detect gravity getting stronger with each passing year.
  14. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Does she have a sister?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    … you discover the wonders of Voltaren.
  16. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    How is it that clothes seem to shrink over time? I swear, the rags that once fit me well have gotten smaller over the years.
  17. tonyb

    drivers license

    I got my first driver’s license by sending in four box tops from my Post Toasties and a self-addressed stamped envelope.
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    Why vintage?

    Nothing lasts forever. That can be read two ways.
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    Why vintage?

    I wish I had found this before I opened this thread. It’s a brief, entirely readable examination of nostalgia — what it is, the role in plays in our lives, what the research says is going on in our brains when we are experiencing it. It rang true to me. If there are any neuroscientists in the...
  21. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I definitely know the difference, “boss.” An 80-year-old hat that survives in a good condition (or pretty much any old item of attire) wouldn’t be in such a condition if it saw hard use over even a small sliver of that time. The old hats were of a higher quality than most of what’s been made...
  22. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I have a dresser and a writing desk left behind by a tenant in a relative’s rental property. It was old when I grabbed it, going on 50 years ago. Both pieces were factory made for the mass market and kinda dinged up, so not of much monetary value. But odds are excellent that I’ll be using both...
  23. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    That’s often but not always true. Much as I love old cars, for instance, later models are superior in most measurable ways. (They sure are expensive, though.) But in the case of most household goods the old stuff will likely still be in use long after the stuff bought at IKEA and the like will...

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