Some Oldster-Adjacent Content to Take You Through the Weekend

A link roundup...

Cartoon by Carolita Johnson, originally published in The New Yorker. Reprinted with permission. You can order a print of this cartoon from Archie’s Press.

I tend to read, watch, and listen to an awful lot of Oldster-adjacent content. Now and then I’ll pass some of it along to you in a link roundup like this one.

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• “In ‘Wiser Than Me,’ Louis-Dreyfus (who is 62) will have ‘candid, witty conversations’ with women over 70…” - In Variety, Todd Spangler reports on Julia Louis Dreyfus’s forthcoming podcast, dropping this spring. I can’t wait to listen.

• “The club was CBGB….What we saw that night was kin, our future, a perfect merging of poetry and rock and roll. As I watched Tom play, I thought, Had I been a boy, I would’ve been him.” in the New Yorker,

  Patti Smith
  eulogizes her friend, Television front man Tom Verlaine, who passed away in late January.

• I was happy to contribute to

  TueNight
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  Margit Detweiler
  ’s “The Midlife Woman’s Version of New York Magazine’s Etiquette Rules.”

  The Midlife Woman’s Version of New York Magazine’s Etiquette Rules

• “To acknowledge that the audience is aging is to acknowledge that you’re also aging.”

  Michele Catalano
  talks to 52-year-old singer-songwriter and Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty about making and consuming music as we get older.

• “Founded last year by 61-year-old Ruth Miller, the aim is to create a local punk scene for older, all-female bands who write their own music. ” - in the Guardian, Amelia Hill writes about Unglamorous Music, a U.K.-based punk rock collective for older women.

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• “When I turned 50, I felt compelled…to share what feels (to me, at least) like a more accurate portrayal of women at 50, and to celebrate them/us not in spite of their/our age but because of it.” - Check out Nadyne Kasta’s Project 50, “a series of portraits and interviews that examine what it’s like to be a woman at 50.”

• “You know, especially when you start to get older, as I am, you think: I really am going to die. That’s going to happen. I have to know that. I don’t have to reject it or love it or be brave in the face of it. I just have to accept it.” - in the New York Times magazine, David Marchese profiles 71-year-old crime novelist Walter Mosely.

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• “You cannot stop the passing of time and how it affects your body, but you can work to keep a clear and positive mind…You can be young upstairs in your head even if your joints creak.” - in the New York Times Well newsletter, Jancee Dunn interviews 89-year-old Margareta Magnusson, author of The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You.

• “There are all kinds of therapy. I’m sure many of them are useful to many people. I’m not anti-therapy for anybody — except for myself. I know who the fuck I am at this point.” - for the Hollwood Reporter, James Hibberd sits down with 80-year-old Harrison Ford, currently playing a therapist with Parkinson’s in Apple TV’s Shrinking.

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• I always love Kim France and Jennifer Romolini’s Everything Is Fine podcast, but their recent interview with 74-year-old The Artist’s Way author Julia Cameron about her new book, Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer, made me feel like writing again after being blocked.

That’s all folks. Have a great weekend.

-Sari