GenX Pulp

I never go on vacation without taking along at least a couple of books to read. This past weekend, when we went Up North, was no different.
I brought along two short story collections and two novels. But then one day Colleen and I went into Petosky and hit the bookstore while we were there. Colleen [...]

Up North

Just got back from Up North where, like so many other Michiganders (as well as people from other states, such as Illinois, Indiana, New York, Kentucky, and even from other countries such as Canada), my family and I spent the Labor Day Weekend. A mass exodus from the lower part of the state to the [...]

I’m old but I can still play Dodge Ball like a mf’r

Of course, that was Sunday, at my nephew’s 13th birthday party, and I am still recovering. I’m not kidding. I’m limping around like an old man. I have to hold on the railing just to get up and down the stairs. My thigh muscles kill. So does my back.
You  know what this feels like? Like [...]

NIN Toledo show sucked!

Don’t misunderstand. That’s nothing against NIN, Trent and company. But the accoustics at the SeaGate Conference center were pretty lame. But you know, I could have lived with that. What choice did I have, right?
No, what really pissed me off were the assholes that push up toward the front when the concert starts. We had main [...]

NIN encounter

Colleen is all geeking out because we met Trent Reznor last night. He was sitting in the park in downtown Birmingham and she just could not pass up the opportunity to talk to him.
NIN played the Palace in Auburn Hills on Saturday and the band stayed at the Townsend Hotel in downtown B’ham. A lot of [...]

A day in the life of a GenX hubby and daddy

I’ve been thinking. One of the reasons JenX67 chose me as her Michigan Generation X blogger is because “I am a husband and a father.” So I thought it might be interesting if I gave a quick run-down of a typical day in my life, and hence my family’s life.
First off, I would say we [...]

Kudos to Colorado

What for?
For switching from coal to solar and wind power:
Following discussions lasting several days, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) backed the power company’s voluntary decision to close the two coal-fired plants at Denver and Grand Junction, making Xcel the first utility in the U.S. to make such a move solely in an effort to [...]

I just love Dahlia Lithwick

But I think I may be jealous of her more than anything else. Because she writes so damn well it makes me want to weep. Okay, maybe not literally, but you know what I mean. Damn, she’s good.
Lithwick is a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate.com, and here is another excellent article from her on [...]

John McCain is NOT a maverick. He just plays one on TV.

So claimes Dahlia Lithwick in her latest article on slate.com.
In this  piece, Lithwick is warning that McCain is trying to hide his true views on abortion, which are radically right, in a meatloaf of maverick- and centrism. But don’t you believe it. McCain may have once been more moderate on abortion but not anymore. The unnerving [...]

Another article about GenX in the work place

According to this Business Week article corporate America needs to change the way it does business going forward because what worked with Boomers will not necessarily play with Generation X.
This article came about as a response to a previous report entitled “Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work,” which was originally posted on HarvardBusiness.org. [...]