# middle aged (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover middle aged. Page: Feed: --- ## [2039 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2039/) _2026-08-21 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2039 days ## [2038 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2038/) _2026-08-20 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2038 days ## [2037 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2037/) _2026-08-19 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2037 days ## [2036 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2036/) _2026-08-18 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2036 days ## [2035 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2035/) _2026-08-17 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2035 days ## [2034 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2034/) _2026-08-16 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2034 days ## [2033 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2033/) _2026-08-15 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2033 days ## [2032 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2032/) _2026-08-14 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2032 days ## [2031 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2031/) _2026-08-13 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2031 days ## [2030 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2030/) _2026-08-12 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2030 days ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bakk8TFoYxci) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [2029 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2029/) _2026-08-11 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2029 days ## [2028 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2028/) _2026-08-10 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2028 days ## [2027 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2027/) _2026-08-09 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2027 days ## [2026 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2026/) _2026-08-08 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2026 days ## [2025 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2025/) _2026-08-07 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2025 days ## [2024 Days](https://howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice.com/2024/) _2026-08-06 · howlonghastrumpbeeninoffice · How Long Has Trump Been In Office?_ Some middle aged white dude with hair that has been growing for 2024 days ## [A quick letter to Keith Urban...let's meet in Philadelphia](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/a-quick-letter-to-keith-urbanlets) _2026-06-08 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ I was accepted at the Philly Fringe on September 23-25th. ## [A More Fun Way to Explore Wikipedia](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/a-more-fun-way-to-explore-wikipedia/) _2026-05-14 · schledorn · Musings_ What an amazing website. Explore Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons like it's a Win XP desktop. I'm so impressed with how well the creator nailed the vibe. It really feels like using a 25 year old file system! I don't have much to say about this, but it's a ton of fun to explore. You can also change the virtual desktop background to any of the images in the folders! https://explorer.samismith.com/ ## [What I'm Reading](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/what-im-reading/) _2026-05-13 · schledorn · Musings_ There are so many great blogs out there. If I keep finding more I'll probably never need to go anywhere else on the Internet. That would be a great day. Anyway, here are some great ones I've been reading recently! Jim Gerrie's blog intersects with a lot of my interests. He resurrects old BASIC programs that were printed in various magazines and books in the 70s and 80s, and also does work… ## [Tall Trails](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/tall-trails/) _2026-05-12 · schledorn · Musings_ Itch.io but purchasable on Steam Tall Trails describes itself a cozy exploration game. In it you're a golem who has no purpose, so you explore a series of islands looking for clay so you can unlock areas to eventually find said purpose. Along the way you'll meet other golems, have conversations, and find them presents. There is no combat or even player death, so exploration is the primary gameplay… ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hZEHmNaew5xa) _2026-05-12 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [In defense of one-dimensional characters](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/in-defense-of-one-dimensional-characters/) _2026-05-06 · schledorn · Musings_ Screenshot from The Gamer American media seems to love complex heroes, especially morally gray ones. The characters who will break the rules, but do so in pursuit of a goal that the viewer/reader supports, make it ok. Butcher in The Boys is one example. He's a bad husband, absent father, liar and killer, but he's trying to take down Homelander who is objectively worse, so the viewer can overlook… ## [Programming and Fiber Arts](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/programming-and-fiber-arts/) _2026-04-06 · schledorn · Musings_ (A portion of a needlepoint sampler from 16th century Italy) It's no secret I love vintage/retro computing. I have a lot of nostalgia for pre-Internet devices (I'm sure I'll explore that more in a future post), from PCs to consoles, there's plenty to learn about. And what's cool is that there always seems to be an earlier breakthrough to research. This weekend I spent time looking into… ## [CGA is great!](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/cga-is-great/) _2026-03-17 · schledorn · Musings_ CGA is great. I've been a fan for a long time. Possibly because the card is about as old as I am (it came out in 1981), or possibly because my family didn't upgrade computers frequently so I spent a lot of time with those games. Either way, a large part of my childhood was spent in front of the IBM 5150 with its CGA graphics (which we got used because the adjusted for inflation price puts that… ## [Mario Rom Hack Day](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/mario-rom-hack-day/) _2026-03-10 · schledorn · Musings_ A surprise second post! The first one focused on commercially-released Mario games, but this one will focus on some of the hacks I really enjoy. There are thousands out there for you to explore, so if any of these sound good check them out and then see what's similar! A note about playing these games: Many require you to hack a rom of the original game to get it to work, and some include… ## [It's Mario Day](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/its-mario-day/) _2026-03-10 · schledorn · Musings_ Mario Day (Mar10) is a fake holiday for a corporate franchise, much like May 4th is for Star Wars. I sometimes feel bad for shilling for a corporation, celebrating an IP that is designed first and foremost as a way to make money, but I'd be lying if I said that Mario games didn't bring me immense joy. There's something about the way Mario games feel that grabs me more than most other platformers.… ## [Big Island Courage](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/big-island-courage) _2026-03-09 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ I’m driving in an open air jeep with four wheel drive on the dreamy roads of Big Island. ## [Molly: Inside You There Are Two Middle Aged, Widowed Crime Novel Protagonists](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/inside-you-there-are-two-middle-aged-crime-novel-protagonists/) _2026-02-06 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ I was going to call this "inside you there are two middle aged detectives" but, critically, one of these men is John Banville's Quirke. Quirke is not a detective, but a pathologist and a man in the grand crime tradition of "guy who gets to come along...for some reason." In my experience reading period crime fiction from the UK and Ireland, people are always blithely obstructing justice\* so nobody… ## [Duke 3D is 30 years old](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/duke-3d/) _2026-01-29 · schledorn · Musings_ Happy 30th birthday to one of the seminal video games of my childhood. The game hasn't aged well in many regards with the misogyny and senseless violence, and the pop culture references that most people wouldn't understand now. Heck, I'm firmly middle aged and didn't know the "chew bubblegum" reference was from a movie when the game first came out. I could see how some people considered it biting… ## [Assembly Books](https://schledorn.bearblog.dev/assembly-books/) _2026-01-20 · schledorn · Musings_ I've shared a few times here how I have a fascination with old programming languages. Maybe it's my middle aged focus instead of a sports car. Either way, I've been reading two books about programming Assembly lately and I wanted to make a quick review of each. There's no real reason to learn Assembly these days, unless you're into making rom hacks or programming new games for old systems, but… ## [Molly: Advent Perfume Diary](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/molly-end-of-the-year-perfume-diary/) _2026-01-11 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ I started this draft in December as an "end of the year perfume diary" but alas, it is now the beginning of a different year! If only there was a designation of time that spans both... What I took to New Mexico : Reve D'ossian I mentioned Oriza Legrand's Reve D'ossian a few months ago so it's not a new sample, and I've worn it frequently throughout the season, including to a Christmas Eve mass in… ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2Q8UxLwACHqV) _2026-01-11 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Molly: Ghibli Gender](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/molly-ghibli-gender/) _2026-01-01 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ One of my least clearly articulated but nonetheless household-shorthand level concepts is "Ghibli gender." The seeds of this idea were planted when I finally watched Porco Rosso at the inappropriate age of 30 (the appropriate age is 40). When Porco needs to overhaul his iconic red airplane, he finds that the male workforce in his corner of Italy has mostly fled to seek other opportunities during… ## [Molly: The Sexiness of The Nutcracker](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/is-the-nutcracker-sexy/) _2025-12-22 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ The other day I posted a Substack note about The Nutcracker : So you know how a lot of girls will cite Labyrinth as an early sexual awakening moment? I would like to see how many of those girls grew up to be a little too into Hades and Persephone in their middle school mythology unit and furthermore I would like to offer Drosselmeyer (Nutcracker, most versions, not Princess Tutu) as another load… ## [Paul: Emma](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/paul-emma/) _2025-12-19 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ The household has been miserable with illness this past week—some kind of vile mashup of cold and norovirus symptoms has felled all three of us and left our daily routine in shambles. There's been a lot of miserable, huddled TV-watching, is what I mean. Last night Molly suggested "Let's watch Emma, I liked it," and I said "Sounds great," so couchbound and blanketed we settled in. In the interests… ## [My meeting with Santa](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/my-meeting-with-santa) _2025-12-19 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ Talking to Mr. and Mrs. Claus is like micro therapy ## [The Actor Prepares as he Goes Full Force Ahead](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/the-actor-prepares-as-he-goes-full) _2025-12-12 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ Behind the scenes report on my self produced workshop of My Needy Letters to the Magnificent Keith Urban ## [Molly: yet another little rant about love and marriage](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/marriage-rant/) _2025-12-03 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ The popular writer I am tired of is talking about the disappointing void of meaning in marriage without religion today. Once again I do have to hand it to her that she's good at saying things people are already thinking. I remember reading a blog post from Sarah Perry about how “with the nationwide adoption of no-fault divorce and the elimination of the social stigma of divorce, the nature of… ## [Get Over Yourself](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/get-over-yourself) _2025-12-03 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ Self producing you own own person show because it's a goal so you have to do it or get shamed by your accountability partner. ## [Molly: Odds & Ends](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/odds-and-ends/) _2025-11-19 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ I've decided that I'm too lazy to properly do accent marks on this little blog so you'll have to imagine them. Consumption John Banville As a fan of John Banville's Quirke and Strafford books, of which the fourth really seemed like the last, I was excited to read his new novel Venetian Vespers without much info going into it. It's kind of a mystery, it's kind of gothic. I would say the best genre… ## [Molly: Divorced Romance](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/the-divorced-romance/) _2025-11-12 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ "I can't believe these seasons finished the same way," I half-joked to my husband as the credits rolled on season 3 of The Diplomat , an extremely stupid show. The other "these" was season 2 of AMC's Interview with the Vampire , an extremely good show. Paul, who tolerates a lot of vampire talk and has a lot of exceptions for a self-professed vampire hater, did not watch IWTV with me but he lets me… ## [The celebrity I slept with before I got married](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/the-celebrity-i-slept-with-before) _2025-11-11 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ Back in 1991 Kathy Griffin was the assistant teacher of my level 1 Groundlings Class... she thought I could be gay but when I brought my dad to her show things changed. ## [Molly: Autumn Perfume Diary](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/molly-autumn-perfume-diary/) _2025-11-02 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ Package I thought was lost but showed up weeks later This little box from the delightfully old-school website The Perfumed Court contained some real heavyweights (and a coffee caramel candy), and I also think I got one of the last portions of the old Apres L'ondee, so losing it was frustrating! But it showed up unceremoniously a few weeks later. Apres L'Ondee discontinued EDT: I have the current… ## [The New and Improved Oprah Husband](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/the-new-and-improved-oprah-husband) _2025-10-17 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ The Life You Want Weekend in September 2014 ## [If Kieth and Nicole can't make it work, what are the rest of us going to do?](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/if-kieth-and-nicole-cant-make-it) _2025-10-06 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ I believe I can help Kieth learn what it takes to be faithful. Please have him write to me... ## [Costco Dad](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/costco-dad) _2025-09-30 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ After endless trips to Shoprite I make the life changing decision to join Costco, putting my life on a new coarse. ## [A Volleyball Dad in Greenwich, Connecticut Looking for a WIN](https://michaeldermansky.substack.com/p/a-volleyball-dad-in-greenwich-connecticut) _2025-09-16 · Michael Dermansky · C&P MHD (cute and powerful Michael Harris Dermansky)_ A short note to my dad friend, Keith Urban, to commiserate about being the carpool dad against an even richer team. ## [Molly: Late Summer Perfume Diary](https://starrslog.bearblog.dev/molly-late-summer-perfume-diary/) _2025-09-10 · hidden (starrslog) · Starr's Log_ I have a few bigger things I want to write about in the immediate future but my thoughts have not cohered nearly enough for any of them so here's some more perfume detritus. Every year, my family goes to Hilton Head Island for the last week of August. Long sad story short, we had a house there from when I was about 4-28. I consider myself to have partially grown up on HHI. It's still enormously…