We’ve got lots of wonderful dishes (a.k.a. links) on today’s Blue Plate Special, a round-up of the best and most recent Gen X news links on the web. Best of all, we have some birthday cake because this weekend, MTV turns 34. It aired for the first time on August 1, 1981. Happy...
It’s time for another round of Gen X headlines, blog posts, tweets and poetry. Except no poetry. Nobody ever writes any poems about Generation X. Around here, we call this regular series the Blue Plate Special, but since we’re approaching rolling black out season in America,...
It’s time for another round of the Blue Plate Special — all the latest Gen X articles, tweets and posts. First, the important stuff. In case you missed it the last time I posted it all over the Internet, Gen Xers are running for president. Not, exactly for the first time, though....
Welcome to the latest round of Generation X information links, tweets and stories. If you’re new here, be sure to read Who Is Generation X? So, this is the June 5, 2015 edition of the old Blue Plate Special – the original category for Generation X News, established in 2009. Ferris...
The hallmark of this blog has always been an unfolding of the Generation X narrative. Part of my intention is to maintain a tiny space on the Internet where evidence of Gen X society can be preserved — at least for as long as the links remain unbroken. This is a way to give voice to a...
Let’s kick off the Blue Plate Special with a new holiday song, Text Me Merry Christmas. Time magazine calls it the Christmas song for the Selfie Generation. *** Update: Brooke Shields can still squeeze into her Calvin Kleins *** I’ve thrown my share of big birthday parties, and...
In 2005, Alex Tew sold advertising space on his super ugly website, Million Dollar Homepage. He sold the space in the form of pixels for $1 each and he made a ton of money. Recently, he made more money selling 1,000 limited edition posters of the ugly Internet “art.”
Midlife Crisis Arcade Game? Diogo Lopes is 21 and just graduated from the Winchester School of Art. His senior project was an arcade game Its Watanabe’s Midlife Crisis and it tells the story of a middle-aged man’s troubles to get through his crisis and how he dealt with all of it....
What are you doing this weekend? Tonight, Juliette and I are going to see a film at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. On Saturday, Rob and I are taking all the kids to the Oklahoma Opry (now called the Rodeo Opry). On Sunday, we’re going to church and we’ll probably eat at Boulevard...
Yesterday, Forbes launched a seven-part series with Neil Howe, Generations In Pursuit of the American Dream. Check out Are You Born To Be Better Off Than Your Parents? Howe is the author of numerous books about generations including the Fourth Turning. Excerpt: This graph reveals that today’s...
Here’s a round-up of some of the best Generation X blog and micro-blog posts I’ve come across in recent days. I’ve interspersed them with some great vintage summer camp pictures I found here and there. Enjoy! 1970s Summer 10 Ways To Give Your Kid A 1970s Kind of Summer from super...
Today, The Grapes of Wrath turns 75. This was one of my favorite books in college. Since I’m from Oklahoma is has even more significance for me. By the way, here is a post I wrote about some interesting artwork in Oklahoma City as it relates to the Dust Bowl. The Muppets and Generation X...
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