Generational Storytelling Pillows

Hairstyle Inspiration

"Too bad we only see each other when we're hungry! I know! Let's go on a date, a real date!"

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

"Nice haircut."

'Well, isn't this nice? Three generations all sitting down together.'

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

Not-so-easy listening...

"We're looking forward to this little bundle of joy bringing out the worst in each of us."

"1971... 2015..."

"We're neither software nor hardware. We're your parents."

Dear Sadie, I'm just an aging Baby-Boomer who still believes in America, and sees all the good around me, but I don't understand why we've become so mean. How can I feel good about us again? Signed, Marlemarion. Great question. There's an easy answer as to how you can feel better about the world. Change your name to something normal! I just don't agree with the @#$% premise that we've gotten mean.

"It's a fortuitous coincidence that the greatest moments in music history were when I was in high school."

"Hey! I was trained in 1948 and was good enough for then, so it's good enough for now....whipper-snapper!"

"Gramps, you were alive before everyone knew what you were doing on social media... What was that called?" "Bliss!"

'What did you do in the great whale war, grandad....'

'He was an impressionist. Like that Alistair McGowan...'

Ask Sadie. Dear Sadie, What do you think of younger men? -kl. *(Actual reader letter) Ask Sadie at rudy@rudypark.com. Depends. Younger men have strong jaws and rock-hard abs, but they're missing the sexiest thing: they're not crotchety jerks, set in their ways, willing to argue about anything and say totally stupid things. Hey, doesn't that foul old wretch realize I've got rock-hard abs and a steel jaw?! (This cartoon was originally published on 2014-07-12)

"When I was young, we used bottles, rocks and toothpicks for our school science projects."

"Greatest Band?"

"I'm glad you boys let me come along with you...it's nice to see how you kids live life! I mean, with youth on your side, I'm sure you live every moment to the fullest!"

When I was your age, I had to walk five miles through snow to skip school.

"Mom, does granddad want me to run away? He's playing that Disco music again!"

High pants/Low pants.

"Things were really different when I was growing up. Childhoods today are much longer."

"Grandpa, tell us again about the old days when people voted for somebody instead of against somebody."

"My Dad keeps playing the awful originals to my remixes."

'Grandpa, what was the most romantic thing you ever tweeted grandma?'

Contest time. Mort and Sadie, our ornery octogenarians, have decided to rename Rudy's generation. Mort favors Generation I - for impatient. Sadie prefers Generation V - for virtual. Or vapid! What do you think? Please send your own ideas to asksadieshow@gmail.com. C'mon people, get thinkin'!

"Ha! This younger is so absorbed in social media that he cannot appreciate his youth, unlike I, aging millennial, who cannot appreciate his thirties."

"My dad and I are trading important life skills. He's teaching me how to change the oil in the car."

An old man and young man who are mirror images of each other pass on a street

"This is my mom's phone. Instead of a hashtag, it has a pound sign."

'No, I mean, what's a 'letter'?'

Yeah, I'm taking care of my parents now, too.