Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty

"Besides the '60s, I was interested in how Americans treat the elderly. The belief in this country is the old should be invisible. "We respect you but please disappear." No one would ever ignore a black or gay person if the odds were good of turning into the gay black guy someday. So, why do we treat the elderly like untouchables when the goal of most of us is to become one?" -- Tim Sandlin interview

Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty is a story of an uprising in an assisted living facility in the future. A New York Times reviewer apparently does not care for either the characters or the story. He seems to believe (or maybe hopes) that this will never, ever happen to him. His review, I think, illustrates one of the points of the story. I don't think most of the characters thought they'd ever end up in Mission Pescadero.