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Bay Area seniors who miss having their minds blown, need only stop by the Exploratorium this month. In its Tinkering Studio your jaw will drop in front of Scott Weaver’s toothpick rendition of SF’s major landmarks. It took 35 years (starting in 4th grade) and 100,000 toothpicks for this Rohnert Park craftsman to recreate The […]

Don’t even try to say it.  The annual Chrismakwanakuhtivus Movie Fest takes place Xmas day at the Hobart Building screening room on Market Street again this year from noon to 5ish. They’ll be serving bagels and cookies, coffee, tea and hot rum toddies and screening Toy Story3 and Duck Soup. It’s free though they do […]

Back by popular demand is the link to senior style, probably more quirky than chic, but still evidence that shlumpiness is not the only option for men and women growing older. Enjoy!

Here’s a shoutout to two grand old geezers of American letters. Philip Roth at age 77 is the Clint Eastwood of fiction. No patronizing excuses have to made for Roth’s recent output and even though his latest, Nemesis, is a bit sudsy, and somewhat frailer than his last brilliant volume, Indignation, it’s masterful. Nemisis’ bittersweet […]

What? Could you speak more clearly? The Geezer is not ready for a hearing aid but feels like a jerk smiling stupidly when conversations turn into mumble jumble. My suggestion – we all start sitting closer to each other. I know it’s the height of eco cool, but aren’t there zoning laws to prevent urban […]

Here’s a unique activity. Every tourist in town visits Alcatraz, but hardly anyone knows San Quentin also had its own museum with actual prisoners a few hundred yards away. Founded in 1985 it is just to the right inside the main gate. If your Charles Addams taste runs to replicas of the gas chamber and […]

Major art events for less? One of the few advantages of this prolonged economic downturn are the discounts popping up everywhere, even museums. Like $2 off at MOMA this summer. A more generous offer are the 2 for 1 tickets at YBCA. Normally art events there are little too unpolished for the Geezer, but starting […]

There are geezers who swear they will only leave their homes feet first. The rest of us are always asking if we still need three bedrooms, a quirky water heater and a lawn. Should we get a cottage on the coast or a loft near a BART station? Do we want to live with our […]