This month’s GQ has an amusing ANTIDOTE to all those ’50/100/1001 Things to do before you Die’-type books that have proliferated as boomers reach the age where they start to realize they’ve never done much of anything.

The GQ piece is called “50 Things a Man Does Not Have to Do Before He Dies,” and since I’m a sucker for lists (though yes, I know, you couldn’t tell that from this blog as yet … I have heard your list-hungry complaints and am brewing up several as we speak), I naturally started keeping a tally. Or two tallies, actually: