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...
Here’s how Gen-Xers passed notes in class back in the day. This was texting in the 1980s. Thanks to a tutorial from the blog, Assemble A Well-Crafted Life, we can learn once again how to fold a note 80s style. If that doesn’t work, here’s another one from the blog Fit, Fun and...
1980s Infographic This infographic features some of the top music moments in 1980s movies. These are definitely some iconic songs for Generation X including Eye of the Tiger, Maniac and Don’t You Forget About Me. Which one was your favorite? I think I liked Karate Kid the best. Millennials...
It’s all she loves It’s all she hates It’s all too much for her to take She can’t be sure just where it ends Or where the good life begins… — From Beth Hart and Man, I Gotta Get Out Of This Town Sometimes, I catch up with Steve Lackmeyer at Beatnix and...
You need never look back again… — From Reo Speedwagon and Take It On The Run It was a significant, simultaneous gathering of Gen Xers, and it played out in the same way it always has. We were together in the sense we were all watching the same thing: National Geographic’s...
National Geographic will host a three-day mini-series on the decade of the 80s. The web presentation and promotion for this event are totally tubular. lol. It starts Sunday, April 14, and is narrated by the popular 80s heartthrob, Rob Lowe. Some facts about it: It isn’t about nostalgia....
This picture was taken around Easter 1983, and it’s quite a time capsule! I’m digging the harvest gold refrigerator and Bonjour baseball shirt. It’s right up there with Fleur de Jontue. Jennifer is the little one showing her bunny teeth. For more harvest gold, check out the blog...
I love the harvest gold refrigerator and sunshine yellow kitchen knob in the background of this most awesome photo from the Flickr user Jennifer Precious Finch. It depicts the punk rock/new wave culture in Los Angeles, 1980. Jennifer is the girl in the middle. This is the second time punk rock has...
Half the Girl Scouts and Brownies in the 1980s (probably the 1970s, too) were named Jennifer. I’ve only been able to turn up a few pictures of them though. I participated in Brownies and Girl Scouts throughout most of my school years and up until 10th grade. I loved wearing the orange and...
How To Live Without Irony I thoroughly enjoyed this piece in the New York Times by Princeton professor Christy Wampole. She highlights how self-defeating and risky it can all be. I love this quote: Where can we find other examples of nonironic living? What does it look like? Nonironic models...
[Saturday Cartoons] I was born in Los Angeles and attended kindergarten and 1st Grade at Bixby Elementary in the suburb of Hacienda Heights. I moved away in 1974, but some of my classmates from those days went on to graduate from nearby Los Altos High School. Their yearbook from our senior...
Gen-X Memoir: Overeducated, Underemployed It was not the life I planned, but the life I feared. Graduating college with loads of debt and job prospects that were no better than what I could have gotten straight out of high school. I rarely thought of these things during my university years which...
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