New Memoir Article: How My Bi-Coastal Move Made Me Miss the Oscars

How a Move Between New York and California Made Me Miss the Academy Awards
A move to Los Angeles from New York in my youth was a bigger adjustment than I bargained for, even the three-hour time difference.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1499426/how_a_move_between_new_york_and_california.html

8 Harsh Truths to Improve Your Life [courtesy of "dumb little man"

As boomers, we can look back and believe in the old saying "Youth is wasted on the young". If only we knew, and accepted -- no, embraced -- these 8 truths, we could have thrown off a lot of anger, depression, and feelings of being "stuck". Let me know what you think, or if you have any "harsh truths" to add to the list.

I Bet Obama's Had to Hire a White House Chinese Chef

Hey,
this was an email I received today from my former Assistant Principal Marc Saltzman:

WHITE HOUSE STAFF FOR OBAMA & BIDEN


So far we have:

Rahm Emanuel - Chief of Staff - Jewish

David Axelrod - Senior Advisor to the President - Jewish

Ronald Klain - Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States - Jewish

Larry Summers - Economic Advisor to the President - Jewish

Paul Volcker - Economic Advisor to the President, Former Head of Fed Reserve - Jewish

Tim Geithner - Treasury Secretary - Jewish [we are not sure about this one]

Peter Orszag - Head of Budget - Jewish


Have you noticed that Obama and Biden are not so much assembling staff, as gathering a minyan?

What does everyone think? Should they scout out the best Chinese takeout for cabinet meetings, or would it more efficient for Obama to hire a Chinese chef for the White House? I vote for the latter, because in the long run, they will be eating so much Chinese food, they might as well wok it up in-house!

Let's Hear it for Boomer Hero US Airways Pilot

On Metroblogging NYC I pay homage to a "mature" boomer pilot who was the real hero in the "miracle on the Hudson" yesterday. Click this link!

Is "Gay" the New "Black"?

Can the Proposition 8 struggle in California really be compared to the civil rights struggles in the 1960s. Read this article from an LA Times blog, which asks the question.

Mad Men: Not the Beaver Cleaver 60s

Interesting article about my favorite TV show "Mad Men". What do you think? Is its depiction of the 60s accurate? To me, it seems so, although I didn't grow up in the executive-dad world, and my mom was not the wife of a white-collar man. She was a stay-at-home mom and smoked while she was pregnant!

Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee

Okay, Jennifer 8. Lee [that's apparently her real middle initial], has sort of beaten me to it, but not really. In her book, and companion blog Fortune Cookie Chronicles, she talks at length about the rather bizarre relationship between Jews and Chinese food through her own Chinese experience, but I will be doing it from a Jewish perspective. Anyway, she provides a link to a "Last Supper" parody, where Jesus and his other Jews are eating Chinese food -- very funny-- click here