tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post108749110539106340..comments2023-10-23T09:10:21.726-07:00Comments on Darwin's California Cat Presents Last Days of My Career as a College Professor: One for Susan Stamberg, and One Just for the Road....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post-1087533614531421462004-06-17T21:40:00.000-07:002004-06-17T21:40:00.000-07:00Living in the shadow of men like GP, I believe we ...Living in the shadow of men like GP, I believe we may be proud of a generation that lived no wisely but TOO WELL!....J.Michael Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158350.post-1087510820713769692004-06-17T15:20:00.000-07:002004-06-17T15:20:00.000-07:00As one who has been on more than one of "those" af...As one who has been on more than one of "those" afternoons, I feel I'm lucky - like Bob - who was old enough to have been part of that leisurly world of doing business, thoughtfully, without the buzzing pager (which descended into a lower circle to become the quacking cellphone) or the askance glance toward he-with-gin-on-his-breath-when-returning-to-the-workplace.<br /><br />And how the hell are we going to make this week's numbers?<br /><br />After all, there was a manly concept known as holds-his-liquor-well. And I never drank gin, anyway.<br /><br />But I once drank in a booth next to DiMaggio's regular nest, who nodded to us slack jaws as he sat down. And I actually, no brag/just fact, made deals at the bar, notes sketched on a paper napkin with a felt tip pen. Once, on a coaster that slowly absorbed and dispersed the ink so thoroughly that it came out of my pocket looking like a take home rorschach.<br /><br />All that's gone for now. And it's made the business of advertising (which was my "context," saith the historian in me) less interesting, less fun and less humanizing.<br /><br />Sinking into my codger-hood, but got a few more afternoons in me.<br /><br />GPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com