![]() ![]() (“You didn’t think that joke is funny? Really?”) But the book achieves a universal truth - and endearing vulnerability - when it captures the absurdity of family dynamics that end in public embarrassment. The size of the male organ may be a tapped-out vein for humor. In fact, the only thing baby-like about this creature were his genitals. He was doughy, rotund and bald” - sporting a shaved head in place of thinning hair - “and not baby bald, but Ed Asner bald. Indeed, his introduction, allegedly penned by his friend Gregor, claims that Goldstein was one day dropped on his pal’s front doorstep, fully formed: a “middle-aged-man baby. Adroitly, the book reveals, too, Goldstein’s awareness of his own satiric shtick: how he mines his lateness to the maturity party for laughs. The book details his angst - mock or real, you decide - at aging without achieving any of the standard markers of midlife: a wife, children, even, say, a house with a grand piano.
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