Boomer Randomness

Role models for creative, fun aging are often hard to find. I am especially happy to see older people doing what they love, getting paid well for it and continuing well past the age most people expect. That’ll be me in thirty years. Two of my favorite current examples are actors David McCallum and Cheryl Ladd. McCallum came to fame in the U.S. in the 1960s TV show “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” playing Russian-born secret agent Illya Kuryakin. The 78-year-old actor is now well-known as “Ducky,” the Medical Examiner on NCIS. Cheryl Ladd got our attention (guys anyway) as Kris Monroe on Charlie’s Angels in the 1970s. The 60-year-old actress is going to show up on NCIS this season as Ducky’s “love interest.” You are never too old to do some version of whatever you want.

Duran Duran fans from the 1980s ... here they are now. They are playing in my part of the world in just over two weeks and I'm going to see them.

I spent last weekend in Las Vegas for the I Heart Radio Music Festival. I work for the company that put the whole thing together, produced the basic promos that ran on all our company’s country music radio stations and was “paid” with a trip to the event. Here are some random thoughts and observations about the event and Vegas: - The event was a music-lover’s dream: two nights, twenty or more well-known performers from numerous genres, all set in Las Vegas. Kenny Chesney - Music highlight: Kenny Chesney owned his part of the second night, even though he was sandwiched between high-energy, bass thumping, rap-based pop acts Nikki Menaj and Lady Gaga. And the screaming 20-year-old girls behind me who sang along with every Nikki and Gaga song also sang along with every Chesney song. People have their favorites but they are not limited. - Vegas is hedonism, opulence, sex, money, luxury, money, entertainment, money and money. - There is literally a “feel” in the town that you sen...

I had a very interesting weekend in Las Vegas.  Plenty to talk about, plenty to share, but I was tired when I got home Sunday night and had a very long, complicated day at work today and am still tired.  So, details coming soon.

I love to travel and I have re-discovered both the joys and the headaches of road trips. I like to see new places, re-visit familiar spots, meet people, observe cultures and feel the distance. I am travelling at least three times between now and the end of the year, so it’s on my mind tonight. Here are a few quotes relating to travel: I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~G.K. Chesterton And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it prov...

I like this band.  Some of their musical influences are obvious yet they put a unique spin on every song.  This is the latest release from their CD. Fitz And The Tantrums - Top 20 Countdown - Don't Gotta Work It Out - Free Music Videos

I don't usually expect to find inspiration in a commercial.  Information, creativity, humor - maybe.  Advice or mildly profound observation?  No so much.  But this interesting statement is a line from a TV commercial advertising singer Marc Anthony's new clothing line at Kohl's Department Stores: Your passion chooses you.