My Decade of Turning 50

Just watched the end of Vertigo and that scream and the bells get me every time, even when I know they are coming…more things from 1967, Chick-Fil-A was founded and the Supreme Court struck down laws that barred inter-racial marriage…more signs of the boomer apocalypse: heard on NPR today that there will soon be a [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I am playing around with Twitter. One of my early favs to follow is comedian Steven Wright’s posts. Yesterday he had one that easily could be “adapted” for a turning 50 joke: “My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn’t get a birthmark until he was eight years [...]

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It’s the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a year when those of us who are turning 50 were a mere 10 years old. I don’t have a lot of specific memories of that summer — baseball was big, I recall, and I probably was in day camp. We didn’t go anywhere in the [...]

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On my ride though my hometown tonight, I spotted this saying in front of a church: “Some questions can’t be answered by Google.” That might be true, but you can check out here what you find if you search for that saying in…Google.

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More random thoughts…I looked up my father and grandfather’s military records on Ancestry.com, which just added a bunch of military records. I couldn’t find dad’s — he signed up before World War II started, but I did find my grandfather’s from World War I…my newspaper today has an article about the last three surviving veterans [...]

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One thing I love about the Internet is how long things hang around. (Hey, if I never publish my book, at least my blog might last forever, somewhere on page 1,792,600,194 of a Google search on “turning 50 jokes,” which I suspect in the future will be like turning 30.) Anyway, found this column by [...]

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I found this today while trolling for some more turning 50 jokes to share: They say that if something bothers you, you should think of it ina new way. So don’t think of it as 50 years…Think of it as 5/7 of the normal human lifespan. Not that’s depressing. Actually, life expectancy is usually given [...]

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More random thoughts…went to dentist today because I lost a post and crown. I swear I heard him upgrading his vacation plans after looking in my mouth…my first dentist used to see patients in a room off his living room, in a crappy apartment across from the projects where I grew up in the Inwood [...]

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