Meet my hot new stripper wife, by Mark Morford

[madokie]

Turns out the mid-life crisis is a cruel global phenomenon. Can it be stopped?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/02/08/notes020808.DTL&nl=fix

Maybe I should start a war. Or a cult. Or a cult about war, with T-shirts and headscarves and a big glowing gold-rimmed messiah with fangs and guns and red spiders for eyes. I will call it something wicked like "Serpents of the Devouring Void" or "Warriors of the Crimson Misery" or maybe just "the Republican Party."

Would it help? Will I feel younger and more vibrant and important, like I've accomplished something noteworthy and fulfilled my destiny and can therefore pass through middle age more gracefully, foregoing regular fistfuls of Prozac and lots of piss-water light beer and slumped shoulders and long miserable stretches of "Tell Me You Love Me" on HBO?

Will it, in short, help me skip over the next decade or so wherein I might otherwise be doomed to suffer the tepid, ignoble hell known as the mid-life crisis because, well, that's just what happens?

Here is the bad news: It might be unavoidable. Turns out researchers compiled data from a couple million people across 80 nations and every income level and social status and gender and demographic and hairstyle, and the conclusion was pretty much irrefutable: The famed mid-life crisis, that feeling of depression and angst and what-the-hell-happened-to-my-dreams, is universal. ...

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Serpents of the Devouring Void" = republicon homelanders

[live love laugh]

2. Is she talking on a cell phone??!!!!

:silly:

[The2ndWheel]

3. Wow, 50?

I have 21 more years of this before it REALLY kicks in? Son of a...

[Swede]

4. Beautiful.

"One day you're alert and hip and tingly in all the right places, the next you realize you can't read the tiny print on your bottle of Lipitor and you have nine cats and a nagging feeling you forgot to turn off the stove in the lost kitchen of your dreams. Damn."