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BOOMER DENIABILITY: WE DIDN’T LIGHT THE FIRE

August 22, 2014 by

We Know Where The Matches Are Though. Believable generational research relies on strong academic studies, insurance statistics, and the federal census. This triumvirate of detailed minutia creates a colorless picture of the past. Instead of men in grey flannel suits, it looks like grey men in flannel, lines of them. Baby Boomer research is the […]

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REJECTING THE MODERN MARKET, A BOOMER TRIUMPH

August 4, 2014 by

Feeling The Weight Of Years Everywhere. A fifty year old has earned the right to a few groans and moans in the morning. When a sixty eight year old takes a knee during a softball game, don’t be surprised. These are the boomer years my friends, with birthdays between 1946 and 1964. While we celebrate […]

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BOOMERITIS, OR WHY DOES IT HURT WHEN I DO THIS?

July 17, 2014 by

The Longer You Let Yourself Go, The Longer The Trail Back. One doctor joke goes like this: “It hurts when I raise my arm.” Doc says, “Don’t raise your arm.” It’s as funny the first time as it is the last, if you don’t have arm pain. Most of us have pain from one thing […]

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STEPHEN GASKIN: THE HIPPIE KING EXITS FARM

July 3, 2014 by

Believe in something or someone enough and you’ll follow them to the ends of the earth. Those following Stephen Gaskin to the ends of the earth found it in Tennessee. Gaskin’s death at age 79 explains much about the counter-culture of the Sixties in general and hippies in particular. A mobile society means moving away […]

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JERSEY BOYS HIT THE HIGHS WITH INSPECTOR CALLAHAN

June 28, 2014 by

I didn’t see the play. The movie is my only reference, that and a lifetime of Frankie. Baby boomers take to Frankie Valli like hippies to the Dead, but it’s a closeted subject. It’s still to hard to decide if Frankie is cool, or not. If the high voice bothers you, don’t tell Neil Young […]

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YELP REVIEWS OR YELP WHINES

June 26, 2014 by

Is There A Difference? What drives people to write yelp reviews? Great service and food brings out the positive. Anything less? Forget about it. If you’re not spending money on being pampered, do you need to  complain you’re not being pampered? Find a hair in your food while you’re out and jump on yelp with, […]

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THE GOOGLE FACE OF PORTLAND WHEN YOU’RE NOT LOOKING

June 25, 2014 by

What Outsiders Don’t See On The Front Page. Live here long enough and you know Portland is more than the next eastside trend, like bewildered 30-somethings riding bikes and having kids. So much more. Stephen Colbert pumps for Powells Books. LeBron James rolls with Nike. Anthony Bourdain shouts out for Pok Pok. They point to […]

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WELCOME TO THE TABLE. MILLENNIALS GET A BREAK

June 23, 2014 by

They Probably Won’t Notice. Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, baby boomers rate millennials. Some are too entitled, some are too worried they might not get ‘theirs’, and some are just right. Even the NY Times comes out with an apology to millennials. Why? Because America is too caught up tending to the passing generations […]

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@ JAY MOHR SPORTS, A WRESTLER’S TAKE ON THE WORLD CUP

June 20, 2014 by

The Fox Sports Talk Radio Host Says He’s A Wrestler? Yes, the sports world stands still for World Cup soccer. Most of the world. America joins in as long as the U.S. team keeps winning. Everybody loves a winner, even radio host Jay Mohr on Portland, Oregon’s 620 AM. On a recent show he asked […]

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REACHING FOR FATHER’S DAY

June 15, 2014 by

Go More Than Halfway Talking to my boomer friends reveals a divide between those who use social media and those who don’t. One of my besties said he’d have no relationship with his kids if he hadn’t learned to text on his smart phone. Another said he wasn’t caving to the trend. He wanted a […]

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