I'm thinking a lot about ladders and climbing up them or not today, so in honor of that, I'm posting this classic smoking pancakes post, with some additions:
It’s days like these, when I feel stifled by my own inadequacy—“Thursdays”—that I like to list people who were older than me when they achieved things:
Age 29 – Oprah Winfrey gets her own T.V. show
Age 30 – Steve Martin first appears on the Tonight Show
Age 30 - Kurt Vonnegut publishes his first novel, "Player Piano" (to be fair he was fighting in WWII and stuff)
Age 31 – Neil Simon writes his first play
Age 31 – Judy Blume publishes her first novel
Age 33 – Virginia Woolf writes her first novel, the Voyage Out
Age 34 – Margaret Edson produces her first and only play, “Wit”
Age 36 – Christopher Guest has his one-season stint on SNL
Age 36 – Dave Barry gets his gig writing a humor column for the Miami Herald
Age 38 – George Saunders publishes first collection of short stories
Age 45 - Roald Dahl writes "James and the Giant Peach"
Age 46 - E.B. White publishes his first children's novel (never mind that the New Yorker printed his first essay at age 26)
Age 57 – George Washington becomes president
I’m gonna flip out when I turn 40.
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