Boomer Nation

A Business Opportunity

2008-09-25T08:49:00.000-07:00

SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPDEAR AMERICAN:I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST

Boomers and Social Media

2008-09-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

More and more boomers are moving online and loving it. Check out this story from Podcasting News: Market Research firm The NPD Group reports that online activities once mainly popular with teens and young adults are now getting active participation by baby boomers, too: * 61 percent of baby boomer Internet users (age 44 to 61) had visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video (e.g.,

What a Drag It Is Getting Old

2008-08-02T20:15:00.000-07:00

The New York Times reports on how medical personnel are learning what it's like to be old and infirmed by age.Mrs. Ramirez is only 33, but on a recent morning she was taking part in a three-hour training program called Xtreme Aging, designed to simulate the diminished abilities associated with old age.Along with 15 colleagues and a reporter, Mrs. Ramirez, a social worker at the facility, put on

Ray, Jerry Lee, Fats, Ron and on and on

2007-12-02T17:26:00.000-08:00

A fabulous bunch of legends rockin' in the Netherlands a long time ago.

Seth Godin gets it about Boomers

2007-04-14T14:23:00.001-07:00

Seth Godin is a brilliant marketer and author. I read his first book, "Permission Marketing," years ago and then heard him speak. Few people back then really understood the potential of marketing on the web the way that Seth did (and still does). In this post, he points out how the attitudes of boomers, and not old-fashioned demographic information, are the keys to speaking and marketing to us.

Baby Boomer Real Estate Bust?

2007-04-07T16:24:00.001-07:00

A great commentary from the blog Generation X Finance about an article from the Boston Globe on how boomers are going to get caught without buyers as they get older. This may be a caution to many of us. As I'm a condo dweller, this isn't going to be an issue but some friends might want to take heed. clipped from

Buckley's Boomsday

2007-04-06T19:32:00.001-07:00

Interesting idea to have boomers break the country; another reactionary hear from. Here's an interesting review from The Tronto Star. clipped from www.thestar.comThe career of Christopher Buckley has long since passed the point where reference to his being the son of conservative columnist William F. Buckley Jr.

Songs of a BoomerNation

2007-02-21T16:52:00.000-08:00

It was fun being a Baby Boomer until now. Some of the artists of this generation are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate us. They include: 1. Herman's Hermits --- "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker" 2. The Bee Gees --- "How Can You Mend a Broken Hip" 3. Bobby Darin --- "Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash" 4. Ringo Starr --- "I Get By With a Little Help From Depends" 5.

Good bye, James

2006-12-28T14:50:00.000-08:00

I really think that the singer/musician/dancer/leader, James Brown, is one of the "greats" of American popular music. His music has informed all the stages of my life, so far. I am very sad at the news of his death. I write about the subject at length on my other blog, Planetnelson.com. But I think he is one of the zeitgeists of the boomer generation. He was there at the start and now his chapter

To All the Kids Who Survived the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s

2006-12-04T17:47:00.000-08:00

Got this in an email from my friend, Peter:First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,

Boomers Go South

2006-09-26T11:22:00.000-07:00

It is the reverse of what Washington fears; instead of hoards heading to el Norte, our friends in Mexico and much of Central America are experiencing a southward invasion of gringo Babyboomers. I'm seeing lots of articles and websites about the rush to buy up prime real estate and retiring in Mexico, Guatamala, Panama and Nicaragua.From Marketwatch:While retirees tend to gravitate toward places

More with Less

2006-08-07T17:21:00.000-07:00

"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time." -- Bernard Baruch (August 19, 1870–June 20, 1965)

You're Old; Get Used to It and Enjoy

2006-08-07T16:47:00.000-07:00

Well, gang, we're crossing the Big Six Oh like the demographic tsunami we are. I didn't realize it but this year is the threshold for the first among us. From the Bradenton, Florida, Herald:They're all in the same boat, staring squarely at a number that once meant one thing: You are old. But these are baby boomers hitting 60, and like everything else they have encountered, they are likely to make

Arthur Lee, Lead Singer of Love, Dead at 61

2006-08-04T18:42:00.000-07:00

Arthur Lee, lead singer for the 60s folk-rock/psychedelic band, Love, has died. The Memphis native who called himself "the first Black hippie" succumbed to acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 61.I really dug his band and remember their version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David "My Little Red Book" as a quintessential moment in my rock and roll youth. The band's third album, Forever Changes,

25 Signs You Have Grown Up

2006-07-27T15:57:00.000-07:00

1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.6. You watch the Weather Channel.7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."8. You go from 130 days of vacation

Mosquitotone

2006-06-12T14:25:00.000-07:00

Over at the blog, ringtonia, they are reporting that a high frequency sound that shopkeepers have been blasting out of their storefronts has kept teenagers away. The curious part is that people over 20 can't hear it! Kids hear a high-pitched mosquito noise while us codgers hear nothing but the wind in our vanishing hair. Test for yourself. Now comes the news that the sound which was designed to

Age shall not weary us

2006-02-02T06:24:00.000-08:00

At 85 years of age, Morris married Lou Anne, a lovely 25 year old.Since her new husband is so old, Lou Anne decides that after their wedding she and Morris should have separate bedrooms because she is concerned that her new, but aged husband may overexert himself if they spend the entire night together.After the wedding festivities, Lou Anne prepares herself for bed and the expected "knock" on

Boomer Burst Media Study

2006-01-06T13:43:00.000-08:00

Great piece on how Boomers are bringing new energy to their lives with technology. In a piece titled "Baby Boomers Burst Online" I finally feel that we Boomers are starting to get some street cred. ClickZ reports:According to a new BURST! Media study, this Web-savvy, iTunes-using, smartphone-toting couple isn't alone. Three of five adults 55 years and older, known to be the heaviest consumers of

And now the bad news...

2005-10-06T17:04:00.000-07:00

Time to suck it up and do the reality check: Alzheimer's currently aflicts some 4.5 million people. When the Baby Boomers reach 2050, it's estimated that as many as 16 million of us will have the disease. But there is a difference between AD (Alzheimer's Disease) and just the vagaries of the dimming mind of the aging. Elderly people frequently experience episodes where they forget unimportant

Presbyopia, aka "short arm syndrome"

2005-09-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

Prez-be-op-iah Presbyopia is an age-related vision condition where the eye’s crystalline lens loses flexibility, making it difficult to focus on up-close objects. It so sucks.

Forever "Not Old"

2005-07-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

Anything but "old." Un-young? Hardly. Today's New York Times Magazine has a piece on middle-aged Boomer eyewear you might want to check out. It's title Optic Nerve and talks about Amy Sacks Eyewear, a high-fashion eyeglass business for Boomers created by a woman who retired from a successful business, Ann Sacks Tile and Stone. Named for her 21-year-old-daughter, the company offers "simple,

What to Look Forward to

2005-06-28T19:37:00.000-07:00

SENIOR DRESS CODEMany of us "Old Folks" (those over 60, WAY over 60, or hovering near 60) are quite confused about how we should present ourselves. We're unsure about the kind of image we are projecting and whether or not we are correct as we try to conform to current fashions. Despite what you may have seen on the streets, the following combinations DO NOT go together and should be avoided:1. A

Pipsqueak on His Way to Old Fart

2005-06-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

Rtm86.com; Dr. John Burrows, Thoughts on Psychiatry (Podcast); Rod Nordland, Good Intentions Gone Bad, Newsweek World News; Many to Many blog, Fear, Greed and Social Software, Fear Drives Corporate Blogging;Tod Maffin, How to Do Stuff (podcast)Duration: 7 minutes, 53 seconds

The Success of a Half-Baked Blog

2005-06-08T21:49:00.000-07:00

Governor Schwarzenegger's podcast, Jeff Jarvis' BuzzMachine "Baked versus Half-baked". Cluetrain ManifestoDuration: 5 minutes, 42 seconds

Opening Day

2005-06-08T15:34:00.000-07:00

Just created this blog and I'm loving it already. Blogger is just great! Thanks, y'all.