It’s amazing to see someone spontaneously summon music like that.
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56? I’m 56. I still feel like a kid. People my age are not supposed to be dying. Anyway, I remember him from Charmed and the Fantastic Four movie. It was a weird way to do Dr Doom, but he was good in it. The script wasn’t his fault.
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I relate to this so much. I still feel, mentally at least, like I’m in my late 20s and something went horribly wrong somewhere. Celebrities who were born after me often still feel older to my brain, like I can’t look at anyone over 35 and not instinctively assume they’re more mature and experienced. I sometimes wonder if everyone feels like this, if my parents felt like this and never mentioned it. Maybe not- nobody ever told me that once I passed my twenties, time would suddenly accelerate to 5 times normal speed and a decade would flash by without my even realizing it. This is the single most important information I would pass on to a kid if I had one. On the other hand, the feeling of “(insert a movie or book here) is 20 years old already?? It feels like it came out a couple years ago!” seems to be pretty universal, judging from the internet.
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Probably only meaningful to those of us of a certain age in the UK.
Those in the US missed a class act.
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My brain peaked when I was 23-25. Or, it feels like it did. At best, it plateaued, but I never felt smarter than I did then. In hindsight, I might’ve stayed in college longer than when I finished my degree, just to get more mileage out of it (though I did go take some programming classes, about a year after I graduated).
My parents, & their parents, always looked older than me, even when I got older than they were when a given photo was taken. If I get out my parents’ yearbooks, every single one of those teenagers looks (to me) older than I do. And I’m not sure my dad’s parents (once they reached adulthood) ever looked like they were younger than 40 or 50, even when they were.
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“Inside, we’re ageless. And when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same person we were talking to, the same age, when we were little, and it’s the body that’s changing around that ageless center.”
– David Lynch
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I had a college instructor, who was in his 40s at the time, tell a story of visiting his parents in some type of nursing facility. He said it dawned on him, “oh, they’re old.” And then he realized “I guess, in that case, I must be old too.”
Same.
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Have y’all tried having a major illness? Because while I can’t say I feel mature or experienced, I’ve found taking multiple sets of pills every day works wonders for not feeling like a kid. 
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Another weird age thingy:
I was in 5th grade when I first got into baseball. I thought of the then-current players as very grown up humans [despite having read Jim Bouton’s Ball Four when I was 10].
Once I got into my 20s & 30s, it seemed like I was the same age as most players for only about 10 minutes, and suddenly they were all much younger than I.
I haven’t thought of them as very grown up humans since my mid-30s.
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Bobby Jenks, White Sox closer and member of the World Series winning team, died yesterday.
He was a notably big guy. During the World Series on 2005 he was famously summoned to the mound with Ozzy Guillen’s hand gestures.
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Nip/Tuck was my early 00’s guilty pleasure.
Fucking cancer, figures.
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Nip/Tuck was so fun; though, like a lot of shows where they have you root for the villains, I got a little sick of it by the end. I don’t love feeling like writers are stringing me along with my empathy for awful people.
I love how McMahon used his good looks in such a seductive and manipulative way on the show.
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McMahon was so good at being a slimy yet sympathetic scumbag in that show. Those good looks and confidence hid a deeply damaged and flawed character underneath.
I remember really liking Nip/Tuck back when it was on before it jumped the shark around seasons 4 or 5. I also don’t think it’s a show that’s aged particularly well – especially some of the blatantly transphobic and ableist aspects of it.
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Far be it from me to say ‘good’ - what happened to him and his wife in the Brighton bomb, exploded by the IRA in an attempt to kill Thatcher, was truly awful - but the man was an odious right-wing Thatcherite fuckwit, so I will not mourn him.
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Again, probably only relevant to UKians of a certain age, but he was a proper, old-school reporter. A legend.
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I will not miss this transphobic piece of shit. I am tempted to put a stake though his heart to make sure he won’t come back.
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TBH he could go in the other death thread.
I’m not into killing people but I wouldn’t wish him to rest in peace he was happy to actively deny others.
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