Oldies radio stations keep adding extra years onto their playlists, and it freaks me out. Music from the 80's? Not oldies.

Jessica? Also now old. Come sit with me by the fire with a blanket on your lap.

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Geh. Kids These Days(TM). I work surrounded by people not born when I graduated from highschool.

Mt. St. Helens burped yesterday, I waxed nostalgic about the Big One 25 years ago, and got a wall of blank stares.

"You remember that? I read about it in school."

GAH.

"In a Big Country" is not oldies music.

HANDEL is oldies music - as in "old", not "for old people".

My grandmother (*rest her soul*) listened to synthsizer music until the day she died, as the logical progression of the keyboard.

• shakes fist at kids*

Off my lawn!

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Yeah, somewhere, without our consultation or permission, 80's music went from "Retro", which has a nice, hip ring to it, to "classic," or even "oldies."

I vote we find these wankers and beat them to death with our canes and walkers.

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Not old, just pedantic. To me, "oldie" connotes a certain flavor of rock that didn't make it past 1979 intact. After that, you need a different word. "Classic" might work.

Also, get off my lawn.

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It might be a classic, but I don't think it's an oldie, yet. Based on my rigorous yet highly subjective standards formed by listening to AM radio in my youth.

I don't know. In the 80's they played 50s and 60s music as "Oldies". Same difference, really.

In other news, I like the Stunt Husband.

"In a Big Country" is not oldies music.

And that song.

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See, I never listen to the radio, so I haven't had to hear any 80's music labled as "oldies". However, hearing Muzak versions of Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper still freaks me out.

(Note to Self: start bringing skull-topped walking stick out more often)

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Furniture people are going to die bloody. They just delivered my television armoire. The one at the store had handles on the front of the door and decorative plates on the inside for when you opened the doors and pushed them back to watch television.

Mine had the knobs on the inside and the decorative plates on the OUTSIDE. I had to gently pry open the doors and unscrew the knobs only to discover the decorative plates required an EXTRA FUCKING HOLE WHICH IS NOW DRILLED INTO THE FRONT OF THE DOORS.

Grrrrrrrrrr.

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Well, I just know that in the 1980s, when I was grooving out to "Hungry like the Wolf," the Beatles were "oldies," and those songs were about 20 years old.

"Hungry Like the Wolf"? Now about 20 years old.

I am too young to have oldies, damn it!

It means that you are old. Old and decrepit. Cranky about the crunk.

I am. I SO am.

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And since we're getting curmudgeonly...

More people who need to be painfully killed?

People who try to fit their entire email into the subject line. Seriously, if your subject is more than five words, time to move it to the body of the damned email.

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Oh, Hec, We watched "Shotgun Freeway" yesterday and liked it a lot. I learned so much about LA. Thanks for the rec.

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