All I could think watching halftime was, please don'y let any of them fall over dead during this!
I was chatting about Tiananmen square with a bunch of 8th graders before I realized they weren't around to witness it. I sat teary eyed through a short film about the 1980 Olympics and then thought, shit! they (the students) are seeing this as history - I am OLD.
Ha ha. How about 1970 being 40 years ago?
ReplyDeleteOr, the Summer of Love is to O what the late flapper years were to you at that age.
Happy Birthday!
Interestingly, O and her cousins listen to and enjoy the Beatles. I did not listen to and enjoy Al Jolson or Eubie Blake at that age.
ReplyDeleteOf course, when The (decrepit) Who played at halftime of the Super Bowl, all I could think was "Who today even knows what pinball is?"
All I could think watching halftime was, please don'y let any of them fall over dead during this!
ReplyDeleteI was chatting about Tiananmen square with a bunch of 8th graders before I realized they weren't around to witness it. I sat teary eyed through a short film about the 1980 Olympics and then thought, shit! they (the students) are seeing this as history - I am OLD.
I kinda like it.
Happy Birthday!!!!
How's this for old: I told my editor that I left children's book publishing in 1981 -- and she revealed that was the year she was born!
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