Young Turks

Rod Stewart https://youtu.be/zQ41hqlV0Kk

Dancing in the street was such an 80’s expression of freedom, everyone used it from Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, to pop commercials. 

*Pop, what Midwesterners call soda before moving to California. 

Old people really do fear dying in their sleep. It might sound peaceful, but it makes it even more difficult to fall asleep. 

I’m going to be 50 in nine days. I’m celebrating it with a girl I sometimes work with who’s birthday is the day before on the 6th, along with our friends and coworkers. Only she’s turning 21. Her mom is over 10 years younger than me. How’s that for perspective.  

I once asked if young people are having any fun in this BLOG: JUNE 2014

Are you? 

I like the name Smith Card Company. It sounds 60’s. It sounds Mad Men. And that’s precisely the era, the vintage, I so love. And others must love it too or MM wouldn’t have gone on for seven seasons and won all those awards. 

It’s funny to me how long it took for words and images to become offensive to generations before and after mine. It’s funnier still when women older than me scream how offended they are at today societal behavior when their generation made ads like these...

And yet, Mad Man was loved. Still is.

I’m going to advertise Smith Card Company, with the following impression, for now visually, until I find the words to express it. 

And how you make of sense of it all, I suppose will determine it’s success.

The shoe on the left was drawn 20 years ago. The she on the right was drawn last night. I guess it’s my signature.

                           

Drawings could be used for anything really. For various occasion. Lola, was just an example.

Prince Albert. One generation’s tobacco is another generation’s cock ring. 

A new year approaches. For people my age and older, we haven’t as many years left to be cautious and careful with what we want to do when we grow up.

As I look back 49 years, I can say with complete honesty, only now, today, creative and determined, am I myself, the me recognized as a child. 

Be that as it may, the convoluted journey was necessary to get here.