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In case you needed a reminder of how old the ladies over at the pre-, post-, and peri-menopausal site WowOwoW are, they've posted their wedding photos! They all look beautiful, like people often did in the 1800s. (That's Judith Martin on the left, also known as "Miss Manners.") [WowOwoW]
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How To Get Hired When You're An Old
A common complaint among the olds—which is absolutely valid—is that companies discriminate against hiring them in favor of the youngs, despite their greater experience. This is certainly true in HIP fields like media, fashion, and marketing, where young people are not only perceived as having skills better suited to our wild modern internet world, but also come cheaper. What are the olds to do? The Wall Street Journal (appropriately) has the answer for them: take rad rock star pics of yourself! That, and other tips for getting hired past your prime, after the jump: More »
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The Internet Says Drop Out of School!
The internet is full of scorn and advice for The Youngs, today. Everyone is so concerned! It's sweet. As we mentioned, Doree explores the topic of foolish Ivy League entitlement at some length in The Observer. Young-on-young violence! Meanwhile some of us are forced into oppressive internshps. An angry old man says quit bitching, basically. A sad young literary old man has advice (?) about how we Youngs are full of GUFF. Guff toward him! Of all people! This rubs some youngs the wrong way. But there is a solution! To everyone's problem! Everyone needs to drop out of school, as soon as possible. The best of the best have done it and lived to tell the tale. Including that angry old guy from before, who was, once again, ahead of the curve. He has moved on to unemployment, which is, we hear, similarly freeing. Who else is in? Update: Ha ha ha. Maybe we should all learn trades?
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How Obama Will Destroy McCain's Sad Videogame
Creaky old presidential candidate John McCain can't work The Google, so it's kind of amazing he beat his young, internet-savvy rival Barack Obama to the punch in making a videogame for his campaign website. Unfortunately, McCain's game is a sad imitation of Space Invaders, a pixelated smash hit c. 1983, but with pigs in place of the aliens, since it's about how McCain shoots lasers at pork barrel politics, or something. You just know Obama's game will be better, and the Daily Show tonight imagined exactly how. "McCain, you know I love you, but you're f—-ing old," host Jon Stewart said. If the Obama camp picks up this game idea and runs with it, it could do for political videogames what "Yes We Can" did for political YouTube music videos: make them not excruciatingly boring, briefly. More »
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Sad John McCain Can't Work The Google
David Gergen just made a good point on CNN about John McCain: We all laughed when the Republican presidential candidate said he didn't use a Mac OR a PC, and that his second wife did all his internet surfing for him, but McCain's luddite tendencies are screwing up his campaign and thus could wreck the country someday. Exhibit A is Clayton Williams, who was to host a McCain fundraiser but who was discovered to have once made a crass rape joke. It turns out the rape joke has long been in Williams' Wikipedia entry, ranked number three by Google in a search on Williams' name. Whoops! McCain clearly needs to learn The Google. As internet-savvy Barack Obama can testify after his jettisoning of vice-presidential-screener James Johnson, it won't weed out all the tainted associates, but it's great for that critical first cut. Clip after the jump. More »
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Mario Lopez, right, was a big star on TV's Saved By The Bell and doesn't like sharing the stage with his younger Chorus Line co-star Nick Adams, left. And what Lopez especially doesn't like is when Adams' biceps take the attention away from his bicepts. So Lopez refused to wear a long-sleeved sweater, as called for in the script, preferring instead a tight t-shirt to show off his "guns." And he had Adams outfitted with a baggy hoodie and relegated to the back in the opening dance routine. But now Lopez is finally getting his comeuppance, just as any decent dramatic plotline would dictate. It seems a men's underwear company, once smitten with Lopez, has switched its attention to Nick. Writes Page Six:
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Shirtless Actors Wrestle Over Underwear
Mario Lopez, right, was a big star on TV's Saved By The Bell and doesn't like sharing the stage with his younger Chorus Line co-star Nick Adams, left. And what Lopez especially doesn't like is when Adams' biceps take the attention away from his bicepts. So Lopez refused to wear a long-sleeved sweater, as called for in the script, preferring instead a tight t-shirt to show off his "guns." And he had Adams outfitted with a baggy hoodie and relegated to the back in the opening dance routine. But now Lopez is finally getting his comeuppance, just as any decent dramatic plotline would dictate. It seems a men's underwear company, once smitten with Lopez, has switched its attention to Nick. Writes Page Six:
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Aspiring Actress Seeks Old Person to Live With, Prey On
This charming 21-year-old aspiring actress needs an apartment. BUT! She's tired of living with immature college students and hard-drinking young adults. She'd like the refined company of a wise elder, you see. So she'd like to move in with "a nice elderly person." Preferably one with a rent-controlled apartment! Is this real? Cajun Boy? (Click to see the entire ad, in case it's deleted.) [Craigslist]
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Hot Old People
Always handy with a listicle, Entertainment Weekly is providing us with "GILF-y Pleasures: 33 Hotties Over 50." I'm including the male on the left coz, well, Buffy! The rest of my picks are ladies. And they're after the jump. Oh, and by "my picks" I mean from what the list offers, because they stupidly leave out Karen Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, and a bunch of other smokin' Olds. More »
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Does McCain Remind Us Too Much of Our Own Mortality to Win?
What will be John McCain's greateast challenge in his race for the presidency? His many and varied unethical relationships? Or the fact that he looks like a terrible monster on high-definition TV? Slate's Timothy Noah argues the latter. No one cares about ethics, but many people are buying fancy new flat-screens. And John McCain, who looks grandfatherly and dignified on, like, a YouTube box, looks like a mythological monster in crisp HD. Seriously! Above, a screenshot of McCain in regular definition. After the jump, the clip that's taken from in glorious HD. More »
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Elderly Tastemakers Merrily Booze It Up
Take a journey, if you will, into the secret inner chambers of New York's cultural elites. It's an exclusive club where well-dressed "raconteurs and bon vivants" chatter urbanely while tuxedoed waiters scurry about. Of course, their meetings are at noon on Tuesdays, their members are mostly over the hill, and they didn't admit women until 1991. Welcome to the Dutch Treat Club, the Algonquin Roundtable for 21st-century Manhattan olds who still like to drink and ogle girls! More »
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Woman Angered By Photographer Who Says Her Husband "Looks Well"
[Media mogul/evil person Rupert Murdoch with his wife Wendy Deng at the Time 100 gala last night; image via AP]
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Whoopi's Weirdo Mom's Day Video
Do you have a neighbor lady who's around middle age, doesn't seem to have a job (so she's home a lot during the day), and smokes a lot of pot? Is she full of loopy life lessons and socio-political theories she regales you with when you go over there to buy drugs? Is her name Whoopi Goldberg? Anyway, her Mother's Day video on WowOwow is priceless. "The day to go to Disneyland? Is today! 'Cause it's Mother's Day! No one goes to Disneyland on Mother's Day." Hey, everybody! This Mother's Day, freak your mom out by getting high and making her a video. She'll never
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"I'm Madonna Ciccone! I'm Fifty! Fifty Years Old! I Like to Kick, Streeeeeeetch, and Kick! I'm Fifty!"
[Madonna, a 50 year old woman, and Justin Timberlake in concert at New York City's Roseland Ballroom last night; image via INF] More »
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Befuddled Old Man Has Own TV Show
Last night on Larry King Live a very old man dropped something, accidentally, and didn't notice. Someone gently pointed it out to him, and he looked down, apparently confused as to how that thing ended up in his lap. Mr. King's contract was recently extended through 2010, and apparently that big old-timey radio mic on the desk is just a prop.
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If Letting Grandma Shoot A Gun Is Elder Abuse, I Don't Want To Be Non-Abusive
Palm Beach cops arrested 18-year-old Michael Alfinez for elder abuse after he filmed his possibly senile grandmother brandishing a pistol and saying things like "Palm Beach County, bitch." But where he really went wrong is not posting that comedy gold on YouTube (cops found the video during a traffic stop; she's pictured left in the ski mask). After all, if it's a funny web video it's not elder abuse! At least according to the six happy gun-shooting grannies below. More »
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Harrison Ford's New Indy 4 Interview!
Sean Connery might have reprised his role as Indy's dad in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but Harrison Ford put the kibosh on that noise real quick. "I said no, no no no. I'm old enough to play my own father in this one. Sean's only 12 years older than I am. [In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade] I had to play so much younger than I am in order to make it work for him. It was really a strain." More on Ford's rapidly olding oldness after the jump. More »
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