The Return of Eliot Stein

From my live cam chat:

AlanLudden:  I haven’t been on here in 6 months–and you’ve grown a WONDERFUL BEARD!
AlanLudden:  It’s really COOL!
AlanLudden:  I’ve been growing my own hair long for the first time in like 30 years.
AlanLudden:  Some people are freaked out about it–but I don’t care!
AlanLudden:  I figure–if you’ve still got hair at 55 — you should show it!
AlanLudden:  Hi Luke….the password is:
YourMoralLeader:  legs
AlanLudden:  TROLL DOLLS   (know who it is now?)
AlanLudden:  It’s ELIOT STEIN!   One of your more interesting friends!
YourMoralLeader:  gday mate
AlanLudden:  Well…just like everybody else…enjoying the Political Scene!
YourMoralLeader:  reading any good books?
YourMoralLeader:  are you teaching?
AlanLudden:  Well actually…I had a class read "Flowers For Algernon"…
AlanLudden:  (which I read in 1970)
AlanLudden:  And they really enjoyed it, but when I showed them the corresponding movie "Charly" from 1968, they hated the movie version.
AlanLudden:  I think it was because all the psychedelic stuff thrown into the movie–certainly was NOT in the book…
AlanLudden:  the movie was just refelecting the times!
AlanLudden:  Since we’re near a Depression again, I showed them "Bound For Glory" about the life of Woody Guthrie…they really got a feel for the Great Depression through that movie.
YourMoralLeader:  do you have money in stocks?
AlanLudden:  I’ve never been a big stock person.  Now I’m glad.
AlanLudden:  Next week we all start reading "Tuesdays With Morrie" including me.
YourMoralLeader:  oy
YourMoralLeader:  i hated that book
AlanLudden:  Well, the reason I chose it…
AlanLudden:  is because I don’t agree with people who are dismissing John McCain because "he’s too old."…
AlanLudden:  SO I had them write a quick essay first on the topic of "WHat Can You learn From People in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s…Or Can You?"
AlanLudden:  Some of them actually talked about the great wisdom and experience older people have…and some said "They’re too old to remember anything useful"
AlanLudden:  So maybe we’ll all learn something valuable from the book.
AlanLudden:  So is everything going OK by you?
YourMoralLeader:  yeah
YourMoralLeader:  just trying to grind out a living one blog post at a time
AlanLudden:  That’s good to hear.
AlanLudden:  I had a student for one week from Australia. He was flown in to star in a movie (they flew the whole family in) and then because of the economy, they had backers pull out–so he went back to Australia