CBS Proclaims “If You’re Over 40, You’re Old”

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Another day, another insult. This time from a major television network, as reported by Deadline Hollywood: After separating contestants by race and gender in recent editions of Survivor, it was probably inevitable for the CBS reality series to also play the age card. Indeed, the network this morning announced that the 20 new castaways on … Continue Reading »

News Flash! Boomers Are Media Savvy

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Gimme a break! This is news? What cave have these researchers been living in? This latest “revelation” appears in an article titled, “Busting myths about baby boomers,” published by Media Life magazine. They interview someone at Nielsen about that research firm’s new study that shows: Just how off base some of our impressions of older … Continue Reading »

Say That To My Face! Greatest Movie Insults Ever…

This has actually been out on YouTube for a couple of weeks, but we want to make sure you don’t miss it. A guy named Harry Hanrahan must have a lot of time on his hands. First, he compiled The 100 Cheeziest Movie Quotes of All Time, then the 160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes of … Continue Reading »

Words To Live By & Some That Are Just B.S.

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We love quotes. You can tell by the way we adorn the bottom of our home page with some of our favorite “bohemianisms.” We appreciate the way some people can put just the right words together and create a phrase that inspires us, makes us laugh or even moves us to tears. You jot them … Continue Reading »

Summer Musings – bohemian boomer style

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It was one of those days that come so rarely now; a whole afternoon spent lounging in and around the swimming pool. Even though I had my nose stuck in my mystery novel, I couldn’t help but be distracted now and then by laughing children, and the splash of a teen-ager executing a perfect can-opener … Continue Reading »

The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling! Again.

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It seems like every week there is some new gloom and doom news report about baby boomers and retirement. The latest report making the rounds in the mainstream media this week is a study from something called the Employee Benefit Research Institute which shows nearly half of those currently aged 56 to 62 won’t have … Continue Reading »

Farewell To The “Boss”

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Be honest boomers…can you even remember a time when George Steinbrenner didn’t run the Yankees? When the news came out that he died Tuesday at age 80, it was the end of an era that baseball-lovin’ boomers will always remember. Who can forget the feuds with other team owners and baseball commissioners, his wrath directed … Continue Reading »

Get Your Forks – These Aren’t The Same Old Summer Salads

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About this time last year, NY Times food writer Mark Bittman posted one of the greatest articles ever. At the time, we printed it out and now the pages have become so dog-eared and stained (mostly with olive oil and tomatoes), that we can’t even read some of the text anymore. Obviously it’s time to … Continue Reading »