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INTERPRETING AARP’S TOP TEN BABY BOOMER ALBUMS

February 26, 2014 by

A Top Ten list never includes everyone’s picks, but who doesn’t trust AARP? They’ve got their finger on the public pulse, especially the public with silver threads running through their hair paint like mine. It’s a nice list with a few omissions which I’ll add toward the end of this Portland baby boomer take. For younger readers I’ll list […]

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Victim Marketing To Baby Boomers

January 3, 2014 by

Getting old is not a crime. No one goes to court on their sixtieth birthday for sentencing. If they did, and I was the judge, I’d sentence all 79 million boomers to join and read boomerpdx the rest of their lives. Of course there’d be an appeals process and because I’m lenient I’d reduce some […]

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Baby Boomer Music Died In 1973?

July 31, 2013 by

Did it die of natural causes? A new book explains how it happened. It wasn’t the plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in Iowa. Lynyrd Skynyrd members also crashed without killing music. It wasn’t Bob Dylan plugging a Fender Strat in at the Newport Jazz Festival. Bruce Springsteen didn’t kill anything when […]

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