The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated
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Re: The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated
Admittedly I'm working from the superficial observations of Facebook voyeurism, but it appears that I have as much in common with those people now as I did in high school. So, huzzah for continuity despite the years and distance!
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I can relate to this. Fuckin' townies.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑20 Jan 2018, 2:30pmAn alarming number of people still living in that same shitty hometown that has gotten shittier since I escaped. I'm betraying a cosmopolitan snobbery here, but I regard that as failure. The next and final time that I'll set foot in that town is my mother's funeral.Silent Majority wrote: ↑20 Jan 2018, 2:15pmAny Biff Tannens failing satisfyingly?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑20 Jan 2018, 1:15pmOkay, this will be a totally duh observation (it is, after all, my speciality), but because I don't do Facebook or anything like that, my encounters with people with whom I went to high school is very rare. One guy whom I hadn't thought of in maybe twenty years popped into my head this morning, so I hunted him down and found his Facebook page. And it turns out he's "friends" with pretty much everyone we went to high school with, so my voyeur activities expanded considerably. And, holy crap, the vast majority of them look seriously old. Beaten-up by life old. Flabby and wrinkly old. Nose getting bigger old. Not aging gracefully, but slammed by a wizard's curse. Sure, the top of my head does not suggest youth, but I was in a rare situation of looking at others, comparing them to me, and feeling pretty good about myself.
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I live in the town I (mostly) went to high school in, but that's because Dillon is great.
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Re: The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated
That makes sense. I urge you to never visit Graham, WA.
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Or North Battleford, SK. Or, as my cousin sarcastically calls it, North Beautiful.
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Popped into my brain machine
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Re: The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated
All those needed are a dash of Jeanine Garafolo and we would have peak Gen X.
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So...
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Very good. Yes, very good.
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I like it because aside from being a great parody of the Monkees, it’s a spot on mockery of corporate entities cashing in on youth culture.
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Spot on in all aspects. And Mickey Dolenz!
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And Paul Dooley!
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I have my students read this snarling Thomas Frank piece on 90s alternative rock as part of the intro readings. Back in the 90s, tho, the cultural left saw resistance and subversion and transgression in everything (including me, sadly), when it was just expansion of the market thinking into every crevice.
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