Today’s Picture of the Day is an Ms Pac Man arcade console. Location: Rural Logan County, Oklahoma Date: July 2014 Decade or Generation: 1980s; Generation X
Urban Adventure With Kids
How To Have An Urban Adventure With Kids Someday girl I don’t know when were gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run –From Springsteen and Born to Run At least once a week […]
Crocheted Pac-Man Hats and Halloween Baskets
My mom is so incredibly talented. She has knitted and crocheted so many hats, gloves and scarfs for my kids and me, I’ve lost track of them all. (I’ve said before, she makes the coolest stuff.) I won’t, however, be losing track of these lovely crocheted Pac Man hats and scarf, which she made for me last […]
Pac-Man turns 30: Gen Xers Chasing Ghosts
Pac-Man, the pellet devouring, woka-woka-sound making, fruit-consuming arcade superstar turns 30-years-old in May. Like the Gen Xers (born 1961-81) who made him an icon, he is too young to remember Woodstock, too old not to worry about the state of Social Security. Gen X Takes Work Breaks To Play Pac-Man According to a Sekita Ekrek, […]
Gen X Nostalgia
Report after report indicates there is money to be made via Generation X nostalgia. In fact, banking on Gen X nostalgia and sentimentality, Cheap Trick recently released a new album on 8-track tape. Consider all your favorite childhood cartoons (Scooby Doo), cereals (Cap’n Crunch), action heroes (Isis) and candy (Pop Rocks) and how these vintage […]