There was a review in the Winnipeg Free Press by Ria Julien a few days ago on a new, comedic book about Generation X men in midlife crisis. The title is the ingenious Dadolescence. Here is an excerpt: “Each morning, after sending off his wife, Julie, and their 12-year-old son, Sean, Bill...
“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we...
I wanna go back to when I was the winner Way before the rain came And washed away the sinners Everyone was someone and And I could never do any wrong — From Butch Walker and the Black Widows, Summer of 89 A friend of mine posted this earlier today on Facebook. It’s a new single, Summer...
Gael Fashingbauer Cooper is a blogger I connected with probably two or three years ago when I first started blogging about Generation X. Her blog is GenXtinct and her book (along with Brian Bellmont), Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? came out this month. It is such an accomplishment to get a...
First Things is published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society. They’ve published a pretty lengthy piece analyzing what...
From a house on a hill a sacred light shines I walk through these rooms but none of them are mine Down empty hallways I went from door to door Searching for my beautiful reward — From Springsteen and Beautiful Reward By broadest definition, Generation X begins in 1961 and ends in 1981. That...
in case you thought i forgot, originally uploaded by JKönig. I discovered this photo several months ago on Flickr along with the poignant, extended caption. It’s been made available by JKönig via the Creative Commons License. It feels like a rare find; an actual photograph reflecting the...
Sherry B. Ortner, American cultural anthropologist and distinguished professor of anthropology at UCLA, is giving a lecture next week at the University of Wyoming. Ortner was born in 1941 making her a member of the Silent Generation. End of the American Dream Her presentation is “Late...
THIS is a Gen X Play. A raw and human tale about five Gen Xers who are trying to find their way through mid-life and face reality. (Please let me do something with my life before I die!) Tart, witty, unromantic and full of Gen X angst, it explores the deepest of human feeling, honesty and grief....
40-Something Dads Rocket Man by William Hazelgrove is a novel that captures a 40-something man in hell. The Catcher in the Rye for Generation X men, it nails the times in which we live with the precision of The Graduate. The protagonist, Dale, is plagued with subdivision life and high taxes. His...
The New York Times published an article late last month, Click, Clack, Ding, Sigh, about Generation Y’s affection for manual typewriters. I, too, love the sound of manual typewriters. We had one growing up, but they stopped making the ribbons for it and it stayed in its suitcase throughout...
Robert and I watched the last half of Pretty in Pink last night on TV. He’d never seen the John Hughes film about teenage angst and romance, which starred the famous Gen X brat-packers Molly Ringwold, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer. I saw the film back in 1987 with a group of...
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