#aarp magazine

[whothefuckisjanefonda]

Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno photographed by Hussein Katz for 'Aarp Magazine' [2023]

[klizzie93]

[hislittleraincloud]

I got a feeling that Page 27 isn't gonna help me with a bunch of you little shits

[jencsi]

Look, is it a belated birthday message from a copy of an AARP magazine? Yes. Does it boost my serotonin through the roof because I wasn’t expecting it? Yes.

[klizzie93]

It’s so awesome to see him, and he looks beautiful.

Austin at the 21st Annual Movies for Grownups Awards at Beverly Wilshire.

January 28, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California

[wild-butterfly]

Michelle Yeoh • The AARP Magazine 😍

[justrobertdeniro]

Robert De Niro photographed by Jim Wright for AARP The Magazine's February/March 2024.

[krispyweiss]

Graham Nash on David Crosby’s Death: It’s “Like an Earthquake”

- Nash says pair were planning to speak for first time in years; Crosby had COVID-19 just before his death

Graham Nash, who hadn’t spoken to David Crosby in nearly a decade before Crosby died, said his friend’s death “is like an earthquake.”

Nash also said the two of them had exchanged messages and had set up a time for a phone call.

“He never called, and then he was gone,” Nash tells AARP the Magazine.

Crosby had been planning a return to the stage and had contracted COVID-19 for a second time during rehearsals, Nash said. He doesn’t know if that’s what ultimately killed Crosby - “nobody quite knows exactly when he died or what he died of,” Nash said - but his death wasn’t exactly a surprise.

“The truth is … we’ve been expecting David to pass for 20 years,” Nash said. “Since his liver transplant (in 1994) and all his stents. He had seven stents (in his heart). His body was really failing. But once again, I can only try to remember the good times, because we had many of them.”

Nash then went on to heap praise upon the man he called “my best friend for over 50 years.”

“I know many musicians, of course, and I’ve heard many musicians over my life,” he said.

“But I have never heard anybody with the same brilliant sense of music and harmony that David had. His death is like an earthquake. You know that you’re in an earthquake, but subsequently, other smaller earthquakes happen afterwards. His death has been like that. It was only two or three days after he passed that I realized that he was actually gone.”

Yet, Nash says he’s comforted by the fact he and Crosby were on the verge of repproachment. And Crosby’s friends and family have told Nash his estranged friend was “happy, smiling and laughing that we had been in contact.”

Death is “mysterious,” Nash said. “We always want to know if there is a heaven or a hell. We all hope that we die peacefully and not in pain. We want all those things. I wish to god that David would have had a better ending.

“But him being happy at the end made it much better for me to be able to accept.”

2/9/23

[nice-bright-colors]

Meanwhile, have another beer.

I really need this whole entire male pattern baldness vs. oddity hair growth explained to me.

Whenever I shave off my beard, the ear hair appears to obtain rapid growth hormone or some shit.

Then there’s the open space on the top/ back of my head that keeps growing wider. Not to mention thinner.

[celebratingwomen]

Halle Berry for AARP

[taviokapudding]

For those that need numbers to understand- I'm going fully off my memory because unfortunately I recycled my copy

The October/November edition of the AARP magazine has a 2 page spread comparing cost of living from the 1960s and 2023- they listed $47,000 USD { again I am rounding down to the nearest thousand because I don't remember the specific to quote it} as the annual wage to survive in a household with a 65+ year old and homes cost around $400,000ish USD {which again rounding down because I don't remember if it's 449,999 or 449,000}

In my mind I consider making less than $47,000 the lower class cut off because,

1. You can't qualify to buy a house as easily if you're not in the 40k range, doubly under the US credit system and

2. fun horrifying fact, you gotta report 11 years to social security to get your full cut per month. If you don't qualify, they go by birth date and what is entitled to you on average if you pay taxes. My dad is applying this year and my mom has 9 years of receiving so I know wtf when I'm saying when I tell y'all a large portion of 65yr olds in the US get either 10k-22k a year (because no matter what $250-$300 will be put into a required medical insurance, regardless of whether one opts to use Medicare, or you'll be fined up to that amount yearly}. And that amount is barely enough to get by.

My dad and I earn, together, roughly 20k-30k a year + my mom getting her social security (she's on the $10k end unfortunately)- we barely got enough to pay our mortgage loan and I will, hopefully *knocks on wodd* inherit the home with less than 10k to owe. But what I got is not a universal experience and presently my dad and I are struggling to get food on the table, pay bills, and care for my mom since she has dementia. I'd argue the making $8k or less a year so you don't have to report taxes is a HUGE indicator of who's at poverty too. If you're renting with 2 other people and you all make 8k or less a year individually- yeah you're lower class as a unit but poor in the eyes of the government. At least one of you have to hit the $9k-$15k range to allow any of the 3 of you to take time off.

So living the under $47,000 a year experience for the majority of my life but especially having 0 adults making that amount since 2018 on their own to qualify as a living comfortably wage- $47,000 is the difference between just barely middle class and not. And with the cost of food and the US government not regulating businesses to avoid artificial inflation (tons of people are getting sued, being told not to turn into a monopoly, and investigated in the US food industry as I'm posting this) I expect that number to rise by the end of 2024 to $52k *aggressively knocks on wood* which I hope doesn't happen

Renting isn't "middle class" unless you got around $47k+ a year to start a savings account that isn't the spare change jar (at least from my experience- the highest my parents ever made was $45kish over 15 years ago and what AARP is reporting)

Ive noticed recently that my generation has... no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like "at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment" and its like... oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their "eat the rich" rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

[beggars-opera]

My very well meaning but clueless mother just pointed to her AARP magazine and said "I know you've said you have problems writing cover letters; this article suggests using something called ChatGPT. Would that help?" and now I'm going to set something on fire

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 22 July 1946, actor and activist Danny Glover was born. The son of two postal workers who were also activists in the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, Glover took part in the longest student strike in US history in 1968. As a student at San Francisco State University, Glover took part in the successful strike of the Black Students Union and Third World Liberation Front demanding the creation of a School of Ethnic Studies. He worked in the Black Panthers free breakfast for children programme and helped them organise their newspaper. He later lived in a commune for a year, fought against the Vietnam war and colonialism in Africa and more recently has supported migrant workers, the occupy movement and Black Lives Matter. In 2004, in an interview with AARP magazine, he explained how he remains optimistic: 'I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can. The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.' You can learn more about the Black Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers Pictured: Glover supporting Nissan workers' organising in Mississippi https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=666208148885737&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

[gatalentan]

SHERYL LEE RALPH

📷 AARP Magazine (July 25, 2023)

[scary-ivy]

Look like Grease Lighting sequence backup dancer #3. They'll never find the body.

Idk why I'm still getting misgendered when I look like ITALIAN MOBSTER LACKEY #6

[alternateworldcomics]

DC Comics 1967 try at a "teen comic", called Teen Beat they had to change the name to Teen Beam with the second issue due to there already being a magazine called Teen Beat, there was no third issue.

It was made up mostly of black & white photos of rock bands, singers, and "teen favs."

It did however have a drawn color comic character called Teeny who gave her opinions on which groups would be the big stars to come, sort of an influencer over fifty years ahead of her time (the only one Teeny got right was the Bee Gees)

I guess she would be around 70 today, perhaps DC could bring her back in something called AARP Pulse.