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Bay seniors may be forgiven for crowing about the blessed concurrence of our championships in both baseball and football. The only sour note is next year’s incarnation to the Santa Clara 49ers. A framed picture of Candlestick is a lump in the throat souvenir you can find in the 49er shop along with dozens of […]

Bay seniors in no hurry to get to LA might appreciate the leisurely, shockingly cheap transportation provided by Megabus. Travel time is approximately 8 hours which is about as long as takes to park at SFO, fly and fight your way out of LAX. Tickets are a mere $30 (with an occasional $1 special) and […]

Bay seniors don’t need stuff. Most of us are trying to downsize. Nevertheless it is the holidays and the Geezer has found a few age appropriate gifts. Who are you? Clamber up your family tree online thanks to ancestry.com. Last year you thought iPads were pointless. As your cellphone gets harder to read, suddenly larger […]

Bay seniors worried about how they’ll do on the Mensa entrance exam, are urged to visit coursera.com. This is an online learning program put together with heavy weight professors from 33 schools like Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Brown, Johns Hopkins and the University of London. Subject matter is all over the map – Bioelectricity, Songwriting, A […]

Bay seniors curious to see what 800 pounds of humanity wrestling each other in thongs looks like, should hie themselves to the Peace Plaza in San Francisco’s Japantown this Saturday. From 10 to 5 world Sumo champions will heaving each other around in demonstrations and matches. One named Kelly at 430 pounds holds the Guinness […]

Literate seniors were thrown for several loops two weeks ago with the completely unexpected announcement of Nora Ephron’s death. The writer/director, with the driest wit since Dorothy Parker, had managed to keep the whole world in the dark about her very serious and long-time leukemia. This is in contrast to Christopher Hitchens who heroically chronicled […]

Bay geezers who thought they’d heard everything when it comes to exercising should check out Vasper Fitness in the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. This is one gym where you never break a sweat because you are lying on a cold compression pad, wearing a cooling helmet, with cold copper pedals at […]

Bay seniors, may I introduce the most original person I know.  She’s a serious collector of shlock which is way beyond kitsch. Her eccentric Healdsburg house is what happens when an artist is also a masterful hoarder. She dresses with witty ingenuity. Fortunately you can get a taste of her fantastic fashion sense and drolleries […]