Before Cobra Kai There Was Hong Kong Phooey

Before Cobra Kai There Was Hong Kong Phooey

My husband Robert is pretty much ready to call it a night every night at 9 p.m. So, the fact he kept me up three nights in a row binge-watching Cobra Kai, is an indication of just how much Gen-Xers -- particularly Gen-X men -- love this show. Originally released as a...

1971: Psychiatrist Claims Sesame Street Bad For Generation X

1971: Psychiatrist Claims Sesame Street Bad For Generation X

In 1971, Dr. Natalie Shainess, a prominent New York professor of psychiatry, testified before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee about the damage Sesame Street might cause young children. It would be 20 years before the name Generation X would take hold, but she was talking...

Remembering Dark Shadows and Vampires from my Childhood

Remembering Dark Shadows and Vampires from my Childhood

[Flashback Friday] Long before Generation X fell in love with Fright Night, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Count Von Count and my personal favorite, Count Chocula, Baby Boomer and Silent Generation women fell in love with Barnabas Collins, the love-sick vampire on Dark...

Saturday Cartoons: Fractured Fairy Tales

Fractured Fairy Tales | Switchpak Poison Death Apples! Fractured Fairy Tales were Saturday morning cartoons - called segments or shorts - that appeared during The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The show appeared on network television from 1958 to 1973, and most older Gen...

Room 222 Karen Valentine Look Alike

Room 222 Karen Valentine Look Alike

Anthony Ramirez, a reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, has written an article, Teachers on the front lines offer solutions to fix troubled schools. Quoted in the article is a school superintendent from Clark County, Nevada: “I concur that the we seem to OD on tests,”...

It’s Not You, It’s Me: MTV Quits Generation X

Earlier this week, Van Toffler, the president of MTV told a gathering of the Hollywood Television and Radio Society that his cable television network was pushing Generation X out. I have a news flash for Toffler. We dumped the network a long time ago. TwentyFourBit...

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