Carolyn Jack

Ceeing behind the arts scene in #Vancouver & the West Coast of #Canada. For comms, politics & work stuff - @carolynjack

[karen thompson @karenfthompson]

They call us "The Elderly"
We were born in the 40-50-60’s.
We grew up in the 50-60-70's.
We studied in the 60-70-80's.
We were dating in the 70-80-90's.
We got married and discovered the world in the 70-80-90's.
We venture into the 80-90’s.
We stabilize in the 2000’s.
We got wiser in the 2010’s.
And we are going firmly through and beyond 2020.
Turns out we've lived through EIGHT different decades...
TWO different centuries...
TWO different millennia...
We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long–distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world.
We have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and Whats App.
From live matches on the radio, to black and white TV, colour TV and then to 3D HD TV.
We went to the Video store and now we watch Netflix.
We got to know the first computers, punch cards, floppy disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones.
We wore shorts throughout our childhood and then long trousers, Oxfords, flares, shell suits & blue jeans.
We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, swine flu and now COVID-19.
We rode skates, tricycles, bicycles, mopeds, petrol or diesel cars and now we drive hybrids or electric.
Yes, we've been through a lot but what a great life we've had!
They could describe us as "exennials," people who were born in that world of the sixties , who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.
We've kind of "Seen-It-All"!
Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.
It is our generation that has literally adapted to "CHANGE."
A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, which will always be UNIQUE!

Class dismissed…

[Yoko Ono @yokoono]

‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: Kevin Macdonald’s Doc Turns Two Icons Into Real People | Sundance 2025 By Ross Bonaime, @Collider
https://t.co/QA0frMNoBK
As One to One begins, we hear narration from Lennon about how he and Yoko often lay in front of the TV and watch it endlessly, saying that the TV has replaced the fireplace in modern culture — a window to the world. In order to present what this period of tumult in the world was like and John and Yoko’s place in it, Macdonald and Rice-Edwards almost put us into the television of the 1970s. We see strange commercials of the time, news blasts for moments like the Attica Prison riot, Vietnam, and Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, interspersed with interviews from John and Yoko in various programs. Much of the video and audio footage utilized is from unseen personal archives. But most striking is the footage of Lennon and Ono’s One to One Benefit Concert, the only full-length concert that Lennon put on after the breakup of The Beatles.

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

The Blue Hour – a stunning illustrated celebration of nature's rarest color https://t.co/QHL3CItePK

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“There’s a certain amount of rhetoric that we take as normal now . . . and it’s a really dangerous way to run a country,” Bishop Mariann Budde says. “If we talk to each other like that all the time, we are going down a path of self-destruction as a nation.”https://t.co/HnWbkswYGK

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

M*A*S*H was released 55 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great comedies of the 1970s, and the film that made the career of director Robert Altman, the making of story might make you think your head is coming off…

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[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."

George Saunders – one of the deepest, truest people in this world – on the power of kindness, animated: https://t.co/3iunFaE0YQ

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Paul Newman—captured here on set in 1958, reading The New Yorker—would have been 100 today. Revisit Louis Menand on how the public’s perception of Newman contrasted with how the actor saw himself.
https://t.co/1YI83abCli

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Paul Newman was born 100 years ago today.
I'm declaring today #PaulNewmanDay in celebration of a Movie Titan. An actor, director, racing driver, philanthropist and entrepreneur who started out brilliant and just got better with age.
It's not my timeline today, it's Newman's Own.

[Carolyn Jack @CeeVanArt]

I feel this one, here in my home with boxes of Mum’s carefully collected crystal and china that no one wants. 💧💧💧

[Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg]

“I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that... We're all going to be fine at the end of the story.” — David Lynch

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

I am in utter disbelief right now... Can't accept that he is no more... I don't have the words to describe how I feel.

We will never ever see anyone like him ever again..

Here is his advice to youngsters.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘polarization.’

About half of you might take issue with this.
https://t.co/8MkJtwOgu6

[Carolyn Jack @CeeVanArt]

@Jenny_1884 Yes. Have done so. Regularly.

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Judi Dench is 90 today, Happy Birthday Judi 🎁🎂

[Marsha Lederman @marshalederman]

Good evening from Vancouver. I don’t always dress this way for work but it’s the final show of #TaylorSwift’s #ErasTour. I’m reviewing the concert for ⁦@globeandmail⁩ and will post some updates here. I’m not on this platform much anymore but I’m making an exception tonight.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is coming to an end on Sunday night in Vancouver, Canada. With frenzied anticipation in every city, the two-year tour broke attendance records and had vast economic impacts. https://t.co/FLeqOFzNsm

[Elmo @elmo]

The Elmos Tour is forever. ❤️

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

PHOTO OF THE DAY. John Lennon photographed in his apartment in The Dakota by Annie Leibovitz on 8 December 1980.