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A DEMANDING AND CONTROLLING WIFE

How Do Women Change From Sugar And Spice To Demanding And Controlling? Ben Affleck was going the distance with Jennifer Garner. He was the right guy in Hollywood to show the rest of us how it’s done. And she was the right girl. My bets were down on them celebrating their tenth anniversary, their twentieth, […]

PIMPING FOR NBA PORTLAND

Do NBA players leave Portland for cities with hotter women? The idea of Portland being such a small market that it can’t attract top tier NBA free agents is a laugh. Not so much the notion that Portland can’t support the needs of top tier NBA guys. As a long time married man, twenty nine […]

MY BATMAN, YOUR SUPERMAN

How Ben Affleck Digs Into  Batman. To all who’ve seen the leaked Batman vs Superman trailer: Do you really care if Ben Affleck plays Batman? Does it matter who plays Superman? Super heroes make actors. What did Tobey Maguire do before Spiderman? Well, lots of things. He was a child actor. Which role identifies him: […]

KITZHABER: The Movie

Casting For Kitzhaber. Recent developments in the former Oregon governor’s life scream for justice. And a movie. One thing is certain in modern times: We learn more from movies than we do from television news. Or the educational system. The Daily Show? Better than Foreign Affairs 401? If we’re expected to understand the depth and […]

How To Choose A Baby Boomer Expert

Are They Expert Enough? Baby Boomers love classes. They teach and learn. Cooking French? Take a class. Foreign travel? Take a class. Speak Spanish? Visit a Spanish speaking country and take a class. You get the idea. There’s nothing boomers can’t learn, or at least try to learn. Blame the rush to organic food and […]

A WEEK OF SEARCHING FOR HERE

What Brought Blog Fans To Boomerpdx? Like tea leaves in a cup, a blogger’s future rests on patterns. Search patterns Instead of Oolong, it’s Google. No credit given, or taken, for spelling.

FURY: BRAD PITT GOES TO WAR…AGAIN

Taking A Shot At The Great American War Movie. World War II is the biggest war canvas for the biggest stories. It’s that big. War stories from every other conflict miss the moral certainty, the celebration, of wiping evil off the earth. There’s nothing like a Nazi, or an Imperial Japanese soldier, biting the dirt […]

WHY BATMAN MATTERS MORE TO BOOMERS

Why Ben Affleck Matters More To Batman. Baby boomers met Batman up close and personal. He wasn’t the first super hero, but he seemed the most like us. His powers didn’t come from space, or a science accident, but from his own devices. Bruce Wayne had more than a little Iron Man, though Batman’s birthday […]

GWYNETH PALTROW SAVES BABY BOOMER DATING

She was married to an English rocker for ten years. That’s a lot of tea and  crumpets for an American girl. Probably a lot of Coldplay music, too. That alone might send you off screaming, but there’s still the time factor. Ten years is a good stretch. If there were any mistakes along the way, […]

MONUMENTS MEN, THE ULTIMATE BOOMER MOVIE

In The Baby Boomer World Encompassed By Boomerpdx, Who Expected This? Waiting a few weeks to review a new movie isn’t the sort of thing that pumps box office numbers. You want to hit it on the first night, or even better score a ticket to a preview showing. Timely reviews push new movies hard, […]