Does This Vodka Make Me Look Old?

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 5:41pm | COMMENTS (18)

It’s officially happy hour, but forget about that vodka martini. Montclair author Pamela Redmond Satran is back at it — sharing all the tells that reveal you to be neither young nor hip. Her blog How Not To Act Old scolds us for drinking vodka and showing our age, now that the youngsters have given it up for other fashionable liquors.

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18 Comments

POSTED BY Nellie | June 24, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
Does it ABSOLUTly make you look old to drink Vodka?
POSTED BY matchjames | June 24, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
when’s the funny part?
POSTED BY walleroo | June 24, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
Oh! This is MUST reading. I have so many questions. Is it “old” to pick your chapped feet while watching television? Is it “old” to complain about your neighbor’s privets? Is it “old” to worry incessently about money? Finally, a place where I can find answers.
POSTED BY appletony | June 24, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
You can always drink vodka out of this if you want to look particularly youthful.
POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle | June 24, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
Vodka makes 40 year old Russians look old.
POSTED BY Sammi | June 24, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
OK.. so i read some of this blog…
I am sorry to say, I read some of this blog
POSTED BY tmk | June 24, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
I would rather look my age than look like someone trying to be hip. Or I can go get some botox, some age inappropriate clothing and NOT drink vodka and then I’ll really fit in.
POSTED BY Jim | June 24, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
I think the How Not To Act Old blog could be funnier if it featured photos of “old” people who were oblivious to their wanna-be-young faux paus (i.e. skinny jeans and cropped shirts; flip-flops, mandals; receding hairlines and pot bellies you can’t hide, etc).
POSTED BY Jim | June 24, 2009 @ 9:57 pm
BTW: I knew the trendsetters had their eye on gin when I started seeing “flavored” gins a few years ago … yeesh.
POSTED BY Iceman | June 24, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
does it make me old when i go to bed at 10 on a saturday night when that used to be the time i took a shower before hitting the bar scene.
POSTED BY cathar | June 24, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
This one is definitely just a plug for a pal of the Baristas. It’s certainly not a very funny blog or idea for a book.
POSTED BY vnc | June 24, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
Sammi, I read (part of) the blog, too. It’s so forced and not really funny IMO. Anyway, I got to the 3rd story and read “my point, and I really do have one” and I thought (1) no, you don’t and (2) that sounds familiar. Then I remembered that is the title of a book written by Ellen Degeneres. So not only isn’t this funny, it’s not original.
POSTED BY Mrs. Martta | June 25, 2009 @ 9:09 am
Vodka makes everyone look young and beautiful at closing time.
POSTED BY Generically named Mike | June 25, 2009 @ 9:17 am
Not funny, not original, and not true. Some of the best “it” events in NYC are parties held by vodka companies and it is still incredibly cool to walk around a night club with a martini (even if it’s a “retro” cool).
In other words: It’s not the drink that’s making you look old… It’s your age.
POSTED BY mitochondriac | June 25, 2009 @ 9:53 am
This is an article written by someone desperate to have something to write about. There are plenty of youth drinking vodka. What they aren’t doiing is reading her blog. That’s something only old folks do. But just in case you are concerned you look old drinking vodka and don’t want to give it up, maybe you would look younger drinking it from a bottle that looks like a skull? http://crystalheadvodka.com/
POSTED BY Conan | June 25, 2009 @ 11:02 am
But is the contest to win the Russian Bride still on? My kitchen floor could use some work: last night I had too much wodka and I womitted on it.
POSTED BY hrhppg | June 25, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
I like the new absolut mango flavored vodka. A summer recommend for all.
So how would this curmudgeon know what makes a person old or young?
The 20 somethings I know drink dirty martini’s, beer or scotch. They play beer pong alongside their baby boom parents (some who play beer pong with wine – Hi Mom!) and wear clothes from the 80′s.
POSTED BY walleroo | June 26, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
This is the epitome of the vacuity of the “new media.” (The blog, not Baristanet.)

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