The Road…h

…movie was pretty good, but not as good as the book.
And I know, I know people always say that. But in this case it really is true.
I liked it (the movie) but it just didn’t have the same effect on me as the book, you know. I think it has something to do with the [...]

GenX superpowers activate!

If I could have any superpower it would be a melding of a photographic memory with the ability to instantly transform any given information into a useful means. A sort of Rain Man – McGyver dude!
Not sure what the outfit would look like exactly but it definitely wouldn’t be from Kmart because Kmart sucks! And [...]

2 GenX thinkers have new books out

Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) and Steven Levitt (b. 1967 [same year as me, which of course makes me feel like a loser, because what have I done, right?]) both have new books out.
Both are GenXer and both are innovative thinkers. Indicative of the GenX mindset they think quite differently than most others in their respective [...]

New featured blog….

…comes via JenX67 (as if I even had to say it — all bow down to the goddes off all things Generation X).
And thank God too, right. About time.
I know, I know! I change my featured blog about as often as I change the sheets, that is if I was the one who changed the [...]

GenX in recession

What is a recent Washington Post article (which I was hipped to by The Gen X Files blog) saying about GenXer attitudes in light of the current recession?
They’re antsy and edgy, tired of waiting for promotion opportunities at work as their elders put off retirement.
Huh. Doesn’t sound all that different than before the recession or [...]

King or Coupland?

Which do I read first?
Stephen King’s new novel, Under the Dome?
or
Douglas Coupland’s new novel, Generation A?
How to choose? How to choose?
The King novel is over a 1,00o pages but I don’t really find that very daunting. In fact, I’m quiet undaunted by it, very much eager to read it. Perhaps because the plot is similar [...]

More Brit GenX TV

I hadn’t realized before but hulu does that amazon thing where they suggest other shows you might like based on whatever show you happen to be watching. Same way amazon does with books, although I have to say I often find amazon’s suggestions suspect, at least for my taste. Anyhoo… one of the suggestions associated [...]

[Smack!] Take that happy shiny people

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickel and Dimed,” is not by age a GenXer, but her new book, “Bright-Sided: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has underminded America,” will no doubt strike a chord with many a GenXer. It did for me anyway.

As soon as I saw this book I knew I wanted to read [...]

GenX Brit TV

I have been obsessively watching and re-watching this BBC tv show entitled Green Wing, which I stumbled across on hulu.com.

more about “Brit GenX TV“, posted with vodpod

It is an absurdest send up of hospital-based soap operas. Kind of like a British version of Scrubs, covering much of the same ground, except without the Scrubs [...]