You know you’re getting old when you see Joe Namath advertising hearing aids instead of nylon stockings. I remember from years ago where he posed wearing stockings. I don’t know if he was actually advertising for them or what. At that point he was supposed to be one of the sexy men of America and so I’m sure they were using sex to sell something.
Not so much anymore. I never thought Namath was particularly good looking, but whatever he may have had has been lost in the process of time. Now he looks like me. Now he needs a hearing aid. It will come to all of us eventually.
The icons of the past become the has beens of the present and the forgotten of the future. Of course some of us never were, are not and never will be. I am good with that.
homo unius libri
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Opus 2025-371: Ode to Old: Broadway Joe
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Amen to that! I am God’s child…and so are you.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is such a freeing understanding. I am enjoying the elderly years but looking forward to what comes next.
DeleteGrace and peace,
Pumice