Great lines from books I’ve not yet written.

Mott High School was full of fucking degenerates, but the chicks were freaky, dude. I’m talking like I’ll blow you for a McDonald’s hamburger freaky!
Like these chicks:

For some SPAM the way to save money

That would be the meat-like product in a can, not the unwanted emails in your in-box for male performance-enhancing drugs or low low mortgage rates or whatever. In any case, according to Generation X Finance sales of this crap is on the rise.
Yak! I’d sooner eat our pet guinea pig, which probably really boges (does [...]

Millennial Makeover

No. It’s not a new reality TV show, although it has potential, a nice ring to it, I must admit. It is the title of a new book. A week or so ago I nabbed it from the library. Millennial Makeover has a subtitle that claims it is about “MySpace, YouTube & the Future of American Politics.” [...]

Paranoid, the new message of the day

So the latest tactic by the Clinton campaign is to send Bubba out on the trail so that he can spin conspiracy theories that explain why Hilary is not the obvious a favorite as she should be, as is apparently her right and her due.
Hey, Bill. Go have a Big Mac and shut up already!
God, how [...]

Boomer lacks humor

Got an email in my in box this morning from GenerationXpert regarding her getting the smack-down from a rather humorless Boomer in response to her comment/reply to an eager, ambitious but probably slightly  naive Millennial. Check it.  What a prick — the Boomer, I mean, no the Millennial kid.
Still, I think we’ve come to expect [...]

When did women become so pessimistic?

Cool article on Slate this morning that laments the bullshit cries that there will not be another viable female candidate for the Presidency for a generation or more, that somehow Hilary Clinton is the only real hope for a female president now, and that mostly because she was lucky enough to be married to a [...]

Gen X and Millennials in the workplace

A college friend hipped me to this article from the Harvard Business Review, which, despite me distaste for business in general, and reviews in particular (I don’t even know what that means but I’ve always liked that turn of phrase. Anyhoo…), was rather interesting. It’s about the contentious relationship between GenXers and the corporate world, [...]

In Memory: Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)

Listening to a rerun of an interview with Pollack by Terry Gross. I never usually get to worked up about celebrity deaths, but this was one was a real bummer. Pollack, I guess because he’d been around so long, just seemed like he’d alwasys be around, as ridiculous as that sounds. It’s funny, for a long [...]

Glamorama

I’m still reading this Brett Easton Ellis novel. Yeah, I know. What can I say? I’m a slow reader. Always kind of have been. When I was kid I had comprehension problems. To help it I had to read stories from the newspaper with my mom and then tell her what I’d read. I became [...]

Iron Man was awesome!

I had high hopes for this movie. First, because of the Marvel animated superhero shows that I used to watch on channel 20 as a kid, Iron Man was my favorite.

And second, because Robert Downey Jr. is one of Generation X’s best actors, if not perhaps the best. Sure, he’s had [...]