{"id":6167,"date":"2008-10-11T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2008-10-11T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T03:42:31","slug":"the-return-of-eliot-stein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6167","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Eliot Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my live cam chat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

AlanLudden:  I haven’t been on here in 6 months–and you’ve grown a WONDERFUL BEARD!
\nAlanLudden:  It’s really COOL!
\nAlanLudden:  I’ve been growing my own hair long for the first time in like 30 years.
\nAlanLudden:  Some people are freaked out about it–but I don’t care!
\nAlanLudden:  I figure–if you’ve still got hair at 55 — you should show it!
\nAlanLudden:  Hi Luke….the password is:
\nYourMoralLeader:  legs
\nAlanLudden:  TROLL DOLLS   (know who it is now?)
\nAlanLudden:  It’s ELIOT STEIN<\/a>!   One of your more interesting friends!
\nYourMoralLeader:  gday mate
\nAlanLudden:  Well…just like everybody else…enjoying the Political Scene!
\nYourMoralLeader:  reading any good books?
\nYourMoralLeader:  are you teaching?
\nAlanLudden:  Well actually…I had a class read "Flowers For Algernon"…
\nAlanLudden:  (which I read in 1970)
\nAlanLudden:  And they really enjoyed it, but when I showed them the corresponding movie "Charly" from 1968, they hated the movie version.
\nAlanLudden:  I think it was because all the psychedelic stuff thrown into the movie–certainly was NOT in the book…
\nAlanLudden:  the movie was just refelecting the times!
\nAlanLudden:  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.
\nYourMoralLeader:  do you have money in stocks?
\nAlanLudden:  I’ve never been a big stock person.  Now I’m glad.
\nAlanLudden:  Next week we all start reading "Tuesdays With Morrie" including me.
\nYourMoralLeader:  oy
\nYourMoralLeader:  i hated that book
\nAlanLudden:  Well, the reason I chose it…
\nAlanLudden:  is because I don’t agree with people who are dismissing John McCain because "he’s too old."…
\nAlanLudden:  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?"
\nAlanLudden:  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"
\nAlanLudden:  So maybe we’ll all learn something valuable from the book.
\nAlanLudden:  So is everything going OK by you?
\nYourMoralLeader:  yeah
\nYourMoralLeader:  just trying to grind out a living one blog post at a time
\nAlanLudden:  That’s good to hear.
\nAlanLudden:  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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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:  … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[29783,30002,897,13477,13476,9294],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eliot-stein","tag-eliot-stein","tag-john-mccain","tag-live-cam-chat","tag-stock-person","tag-troll-dolls","tag-woody-guthrie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t