{"id":34420,"date":"2016-10-14T19:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T23:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=34420"},"modified":"2016-10-14T19:09:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T23:09:40","slug":"oldchella-day-3-and-bob-dylan-the-nobel-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/oldchella-day-3-and-bob-dylan-the-nobel-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldchella Day 3 and Bob Dylan the Nobel Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Bob Dylan became the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That makes him one of the 11 men — all aged 65 and up — to be honored in the six Nobel categories this year. No women won a Nobel Prize in 2016, for the first time since 2012<\/a>. (Nobel Prizes have only gone to women 49 times since 1901, and that’s counting Marie Curie twice.<\/a> Men have won 825 times<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Basically, the Nobel Prize announcements had a lot in common with the lineup at the Desert Trip music festival in Indio, Calif. <\/a>“Oldchella” is also all dudes of a certain age, one of whom is Bob Dylan, who will be opening the second weekend of the event in a couple of hours.<\/p>\n

I missed Dylan’s last pre-Nobel-Prize performance at Oldchella last Friday thanks to a series of unfortunate events that started with MrB developing a severe toothache very late Thursday night. Due to the dental emergency, I wound up on an early morning flight to California by myself, without a helpful husband to drive the rental car upon arrival. Not being much of a driver myself, I was delayed at LAX while trying to improvise a way to ferry a very valuable package of jewelry to the costume department at a Hollywood television studio (shout out to my film-editor stepdaughter Laura for finding a trustworthy production assistant to handle the job). By the time I got in an Uber with a surprisingly reasonable flat fare, it was rush hour on Friday and I hit five hours of traffic. Luckily, my driver was a charming actor named Karim, and we had a lively conversation all the way to Indio.\u00a0 I think Karim lost money on that trip, but he was incredibly gracious about it. We hugged goodbye when he dropped me off at my hotel. Best Uber driver ever, seriously … and I still made it to the concert in time to see the Rolling Stones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MrB’s pain subsided in time for him to join me in California last Saturday for Neil Young and Paul McCartney<\/a>. On Sunday, we got to the concert grounds early so we could wander around.<\/p>\n

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Old folks at #oldchella ! #selfie #deserttrip #indio<\/a><\/p>\n

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