Your Old Man

"So what does your father have to say for himself these days?" Thea asked her son.

"Not a whole lot. He was real mellow for a change. He's got a new love interest so he's looking better. He's taken off some weight."

"Spare me the particulars."

"Jocelyn. She's 28 and an ethnobotanist."

"So was Carlos Castañeda."

"Who?"

"Think of Shirley Maclaine on very strange drugs."