Another review/interview with Jeff Gordinier….

…author of X Saves the World. The article is from March but fuck it!
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2008/03/25/GenXNow/
I dig Jeff’s explanation of the Gen X viewpoint:
HO: What is the Gen X viewpoint?
JG: “I think the Gen X viewpoint is indirection. The boomer and millennial viewpoint is “I want to be in the fucking spotlight.” Gen Xers are uninterested in the spotlight. They’re [...]

Hey, Obama! Read this!

Roland Martin’s column on cnn.com today has some suggestions that Mr. Obama might do well to consider.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/30/roland.martin/index.html
I’ve read more than a couple of articles suggesting that Obama is looking tired, suggesting that perhaps he’s losing his will to fight or whatever. I certainly hope not. One thing is clear, he needs to fight back more [...]

John Cusak’s new movie

Quintessential Gen X actor, John Cusack has a new movie coming out, according to an article on cnn.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/29/john.cusack/index.html
The new movie is called War, Inc., a dark comedy/political satire in which the 41-year-old Cusak plays a corporate-hired assassin to take out a rival company’s CEO. It’s good to see Cusak taking up this kind of role [...]

You Look Nice today — no, not you. It’s a blog.

Post funny podcasts of three guys blabbling about all kinds of nonsense. It is the online version of a GenX pot-smoking and junk food munching round table discussion.
http://youlooknicetoday.com/
I’m adding it to my blog roll as well.
Thankies to Proffitt for turning me on to this site, man.

Gen X catches shit for for Realestate bust — Nice!

I’ve made clear my disinterest, if not utter disdain, for business and makreting etc as it pertains to Generation X, mostly because of the crap out there that exist for no other purpose than to try make money off of GenX, or any other generation for that matter. I find this sort of endeavor essentially [...]

New X. Lit: “All the Sad Young Literary Men” by Keith Gessen

I first heard about Mr. Gessen’s new novel when he took part in an online writer round table discussion on a new book discussion website called title page (http://titlepage.tv/). At 33, he falls within the GenX age range, and based on a recent  New York Times article  his novel seems a viable candidate for condemnation in [...]

X. Lit: Jennifer Government….

There’s a good chance I won’t finish Max Barry’s novel, Jennifer Governement. The ending seems pretty predictable, not to knock Mr. Barry, after all his published and fairly well read as far as I can tell and I’m just some schmuck blathering away on the interner to little, if any, avail, nevermind actual readership. My reason [...]

Another X. Lit author

To add to my previous list of GenX authors/books, I thus nominate Mary Gaitskill, who while in terms of her age may not be considered a GenXer, her fiction certainly fits.
Gaitskill is the author of two short story collections and two novels :
Bad Behavior (1988) (stories) ISBN 0-671-65871-9
Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991) (novel) ISBN 0-671-68540-6
Because They [...]

I (and Jeff Gordinier) am (are) not alone….

Lest some people believe that my commentary on Generation X is taking place in a vaccuum, nothing more than personal griping that is not represenative of a more wide-spread attitude, allow me to relate some comments that I happen to be privy to over the weekend.
At a social gathering I listened to two people, both of few [...]

Gen Xers fret about retirement

According to an article from Reuters, if Boomers are worrying about whether they’ll have enough money to retire, Gen Xers are fretting that they’ll never really be able to retire at all, that they’ll be working for the rest of their fucking lives.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1135472320080414
I have doubts about the articles assertion that Gen Xers have high expectations [...]