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Don’t Age!
I’m not that comfortable with aging. I always thought that, not being such an obvious beauty, that it would be easy for me to age. You know, when you don’t have your looks that disappear. But I had something else. I realized that I had youth, for a long, long time. And now it’s gone. You don’t want to be reminded that you’re not 30 anymore. I don’t enjoy it.
I appreciate Charlotte Gainsbourg’s honest response to a question regarding something she said about possibly giving up acting. Maybe that’s her reality at 46. Yet somehow I was bothered more by the super-French response to how she “stays so beautiful and glamorous and skinny.”
[Laughs.]
Well, skinny is easy. Don’t eat!
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Chase Sapphire Lounge
When: Monday, 7:30pm
My points and miles mania only struck in middle-age and now I’m a proud member of a Chase Sapphire Reserve card (and Amex Platinum, which is way too much) so I thought it would be fitting to extend this dorky hobby and have a drink at the temporary Chase Sapphire Lounge at the Seaport despite the location not being convenient in the least.
It turned out that it was the opposite of exclusive and anyone could order a plastic cup filled with frosé. Also, the initial bartender was kind of a dick (he gave us a look when we asked for a menu and said there wasn’t one, though there was). But there was a blue bowl of free chapstick with the Chase logo, so it all balanced out.
Was I carded? No, neither based on age nor Chase Sapphire card-holder status.
Age appropriate? Corporately sponsored open-air bars in tourist zones aren’t exactly the province of the young. I spied one grown woman singing along with the ‘80s tunes that ran the gamut from Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” to Psychedelic Furs’ “Love My Way.”
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The New Midlife Crisis
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Screen Time: Henry Freaking Thomas
You would be forgiven if you aren’t familiar with my Henry Thomas obsession from the ‘90s, so you can’t fathom my joy when he not only showed up as a middle-aged love interest for Sam on “Better Things,” but they meet while middle-aged drinking. Some of my most favorite things in one place.
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Screen Time: Real Housewives of New York City
Duh, I haven’t watched this show in ages but I’m pretty sure it’s the currently aired show with the most screen time devoted to over-40 (ok, over-50) women getting drunk.
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Surviving as an Old in the Tech World | Backchannel
Surviving as an Old in the Tech World | Backchannel
I’m not in tech, but yes to this.
Almost everyone I know over 40 tends to omit their graduation year from their résumés and eliminate or streamline their past experiences.
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OMG, I really should’ve clicked on that Gen X restaurant story just for this image alone.
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This photo ALT-tagged “gen x at a restaurant” is doing double duty, also on Slackers Extraordinaire.
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Goodwill is ‘overrun’ with stuff millennials and Gen Xers refuse to take from their parents, who pay up to $5,000 to get rid of it
This might be a record, seeing Gen X mentioned in two headlines in one week.
