| #82: | If porn is just the same acts repeated over and over, why do we need new porn? Can't we just recycle the old porn and save the environment? |
| #92: | My latest philosophy essay: "The Secret of Eternal Youth" http://bit.ly/17w31K - Old age is a philosophical problem, not a physical one. |
| #119: | What makes a person "old" and inflexible is not so much the passage of time but the weight of prior investments accumulated around him. |
| #178: | Preceding every collapse is euphoria, the feeling that we are special and can do anything and that the old rules no longer apply. |
| #229: | Modern audio-visual entertainment overloads the emotional system, making people numb and passive. My old essay: http://bit.ly/mztcx |
| #277: | Why do singer-songwriters perform at all? They need the money! Committed artists would be creating new material, not rehashing the old. |
| #297: | "It's not a bug; it's a feature." (old programmer saying) i.e. an apparent defect can turn out to be an advantage. |
| #367: | Sometimes I wish the 49-year-old Glenn could go back to advise the 20-year-old one, but that would be cheating. |
| #370: | The 49-year-old Glenn can't go back to advise the 20-year-old one, but the 20-year-old can still inspire the 49-year-old. |
| #531: | See my old essay: "Quality vs. Crap: The Enduring Struggle of Life" (Kilroy Cafe #35) http://bit.ly/1470Tk |
| #572: | Old age is not a physical problem but existential one. People get so trapped by their past investments that they can't change. |
| #577: | Death is inevitable, but "old" is a choice. |
| #591: | See my old essay: "Paranoia: Our Enemy Within" http://bit.ly/Ik29m (Kilroy Cafe #26, Jan 09) |
| #611: | My old essay on the tragedy of "Male Sports Addiction" http://bit.ly/d5ks7 (Kilroy Cafe #10, June 08) |
| #692: | The needless risk-taking of youth is usually replaced by pathological risk aversion in the old. |
| #696: | "Old" is an accumulation of restrictions about certain ways things must be done. It has little to do with age. |
| #702: | The most dangerous drivers on the road are the young. The next most dangerous are the elderly. Both overestimate their abilities. |
| #725: | Here are my photos taken today at the ACROPOLIS in Athens, Greece. http://bit.ly/WPYTu - Old stuff, mainly. |
| #790: | Nutritionally, there is no difference between a freshly opened soda and a "flat" one a few hours old, so why must a flat one be thrown away? |
| #982: | Attention old people: Please clip your protruding nose and ear hair. It will make you seem connected to the real world. |
| #1022: | The problem with long commitments is the world may change in ways you weren't expecting, then you're trapped in the old path. |
| #1058: | "Old" is the state of being so trapped in your past emotional investments that you can no longer significantly change. |
| #1062: | I know this is an old grudge, but wasn't it Ralph Nader who gave us George Bush? |
| #1096: | It's another old grudge, but were Hiroshima and Nagasaki really necessary? Talk about a Holocaust! |
| #1180: | Why must people be referred to as "persons" on transit signs? ("Yield this seat to elderly persons.") It seems dehumanizing. - #linguistics |
| #1241: | I never would have imagined in my youth that Playboy (viewed in utmost secrecy) would someday be seen as quaint and old-fashioned. - #pornography |
| #1350: | An old "TV Nation" segment was about selling Avon products in the Amazon, to people who could barely afford to eat. That's luxury marketing! |
| #1468: | Wine is one of the world's oldest frauds. Each generation convinces the next that it's important, but no one asks "Why?" |
| #1511: | "Old people" are just killing time 'til time gets around to killing them. Not a dignified ending. |
| #1638: | Somebody should be preserving old cathode ray TVs. They were part of our crappy TV heritage for 50+ years, and the new crap isn't the same. |
| #1742: | This looks like a useful scanning service for old slides and prints: http://www.scancafe.com/ (I haven't tried it yet.) |
| #1833: | The young person's excuse: "I've got plenty of time. I'll do it later." The old person's excuse: "It's too late for me. I can't change now." |
| #1847: | The ancient ways, the old traditions, the sacred beliefs of the elders -- you have to believe in them if you are already invested in them. |
| #1948: | You're officially old when some marketing campaign refers to your age group as "young at heart". |
| #2228: | If you're gonna sell shit, it has to be new shit, not old shit. No one wants old shit, unless it's really, really old historic shit. - Facebook Comments |
| #2306: | For every fresh young talent coming on the scene, there must be an old, washed up talent falling off it. |
| #2364: | If porn is just the same acts repeated over and over, why do we need new porn? Can't we just recycle the old porn and save the environment? |
| #2409: | The essence of old age is saving old knick-knacks because no matter how close to death you may be you never know when you might need them. |
| #2467: | Young people say "I can change later; I got plenty of time." Old people say, "I can't change; it's too late for me." So when do we change? |
| #2607: | wine—n. the world's oldest consumer fraud. Fermented fruit juice sold to gullible social climbers based on invented distinctions of taste. |
| #2642: | My old arch-nemesis at Area 51, "America's Prophet" Sean David Morton, has been charged with securities fraud. http://bit.ly/bre1pe |
| #2887: | Age doesn't make you old. What makes you old is getting trapped in your own investments. |
| #2932: | "Old" is the state of having already given up on life. For some, it happens at an early age; others never get there. |
| #2990: | Trying to explain to my 80-year-old mother how we handled recycling when I was a kid: We just threw the damn thing out! |
| #3023: | Europe is full of old shit, which Americans think is special. Really, though, it's just ordinary shit that got old. |
| #3040: | Nothing restores one's ego to balance like good old-fashioned failure. |
| #3264: | "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." — Oliver Wendell Holmes via @tweetsayings |
| #3292: | There's nothing so schadenfreude as watching the rich and famous get old and decrepit. See, they're not so different! |
| #3313: | The elderly have embraced the internet. Makes it easier to do crosswords, collect memories and gripe how the neighborhood has changed. |
| #3375: | The hardest thing about moving ahead with your life isn't finding a new path but leaving the old one. |
| #3461: | The Wicked Old Witch of the West and those flying monkeys were the scariest shit ever shown in the movies. No slasher film can compare. |
| #3466: | The reckless risk taking of youth becomes pathological risk aversion in old age. Given what they have to lose, shouldn't it be the opposite? |
| #3474: | The ritualized activities of old age aren't a function of the body but of accumulated emotional investments restricting any alternatives. |
| #3520: | "Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin via @tweetsayings |
| #3577: | The old American Dream of home ownership will be replaced by a new, more American dream: freedom of movement tethered only to the internet. |
| #3578: | Time to revive an old term: "frigid" — people who are incapable of giving to others, who suck the joy out of any room they enter. |
| #3579: | You can't tell people their own personality flaws. They'll either become defensive and angry or claim they're too old or weak to change. |
| #3586: | After WWII, there were still some old Nazis who believed in the cause. The only thing to do with these people is let time kill them off. |
| #3608: | Outside Graceland, Memphis TN: Most Elvis fans are — How shall I say this? — elderly. Frickin' old! BTW: I ain't paying $30 for this tour! |
| #3704: | The young man says, "I've got plenty of time. I'll change later." The old man says, "It's too late for me. I can't change now." |
| #3768: | The young man says, "I've got plenty of time. I'll change later." The old man says, "It's too late for me. I can't change now." So when? |
| #3770: | The trouble with most people my age is they've gotten really, really old. They've gone from "Anything is possible" to "Nothing is possible." |