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• gen x women and cougar town

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 474
  Courtney Cox is a Cougar Town photo courtesy the real janelle via flickr First of all, I didnt even know the word cougar referred to anything other than a very large, fast wild animal until my brother explained the other meaning to me . A year ago. Then came a less-than-glowing tweet from my ...
  6 hours ago

• St00pid gossipy shit

  
  Latchkey Man — Authority: 137
  So Tiger Woods allegedly crashes his ride after fleeing his wife who had a few questions about an alleged affair Tigers involved in. Funny, but the police had a few questions for the couple, too. But since hes a celebrity hes able to speak to police at his convenience. This really is motivation to become ...
  3 days ago

• Glee and today’s generations.

  
  Jessie X — Authority: 120
  On word of @stevenfisher , I turned my attention to the TV show Glee . (Thank you, hulu.) What I was struck with right away — above and beyond the characters and unfolding story — was the dead-on accuracy of the generational depiction of today’s Americans generations. While GenX grew up in high school with ...
  5 days ago

• The Road…h

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  …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 language. Cormac McCarthy’s voice is ...
  6 days ago

• Thoughts About Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X & Gen Y

  
  Jonathan Farrington's Blog — Authority: 129
    This all began after I listened in to “ Edgy Conversations: An Explosion of Opportunity ” a TSE Masterclass, brilliantly presented by  Daniel Waldschmidt last week. We have at least two team members on the TSE team who understand everything there is to know about “generation gaps” and so I immediately ...
  1 week ago

• How Generations X And Y Are Coping With The Crisis

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 541
  While I’ve talked about how “The Great Recession” has affected groups such as the Baby Boomers and college seniors, I haven’t really looked at Generations X (born roughly 1965-76) or Y (born roughly 1977-1998). Martha Irvine of the Associated Press talked about the approximately 51 million Gen Xers on November ...
  1 week ago

• Iconix could make Playboy work: Kill the mag, take the sex out of the brand

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 666
  Filed under: Deals , Media World Playboy ( PLA ) tends to be associated with the magazine and sex. Not the hardcore, nasty kind, of course -- Playboy has always been more than a tad distinguished, staying above board while the adult entertainment industry has chosen to compete in ways that my editor would delete ...
  1 week ago

• Web 2.0 and Workforce Planning

  
  Matt's Musings — Authority: 100
  My recent presentation to the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) in Canberra. Web 2.0 and Workforce Planning: Why an understanding of how people work in a modern, web-savy workforce, is important to the survival of your organisation. M Posted in 37498 Tagged: baby boomers, boomers, gen-x, gen-y, ...
  1 week ago

• GenX superpowers activate!

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  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 of ...
  1 week ago

• Tournament of Rock – Legends: The Beatles vs Elvis Costello

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 605
  Results: It was only a matter of time: there are now officially no Gen Xers left in the ToR, as a great Boomer legend waxes U2 … by nearly a two-to-one margin. Wow, on so many levels. The numbers: #5 Neil Young 65% ; #1 U2 35%. NY moves on to the Great Eight. Up next, our search for the greatest Baby Boomer band ...
  1 week ago

• Dont let Detroit be erased. Tell its stories.

  
  Brand Noise — Authority: 100
  On Tuesday, a film about the Milton Hershey School was screened at Tribeca Cinema. The director Cynthia Wade and the producing agency ArnoldNYC walked a fine line with their closed wall client to come up with a documentary that would...
  1 week ago

• 2 GenX thinkers have new books out

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• New featured blog….

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  …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 sheets — wifey does that, and quite ...
  2 weeks ago

• Will I Be Part of “Gen U,” the Generation Unretired?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Many of us grew up with a stereotypical life plan: Ill go to school, college, get a job, get married, have a family, get a home, and maybe even have a white picket fence and a dog. “Then magically, at 65, I will retire and can finally relax.”  Some of these notions have faded into oblivion - in fact, ...
  2 weeks ago

• GenX in recession

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Equalizer star Edward Woodward dies at 79

  
  Desdinova - Super Villain of the Ozarks — Authority: 120
  Equalizer star Edward Woodward dies at 79 -- latimes.com A little video from You Tube:  Posted using ShareThis
  2 weeks ago

• A somewhat whimsical look at waiter charateristics by generation

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 134
  Grooming: Baby boomer – increased emphasis on ear and nose hair, greying hair, managing the balance between bald tops and remaining side scalp, concern about moles, age spots and wrinkles, complying to the letter with uniform standards because “We must have standards” Gen X – keeping a tight, hairline ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Blast: Kareems Grateful for Public Support, Gen-X Is Fed Up

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 157
  Filed under: News Kareems Grateful for Public Support Kareem Abdul-Jabar says that the public reaction to his leukemia announcement has been resoundingly positive, allowing him to reconnect with many. [ NY Times ] Southern AIDS Patients Need More Aid from Government In the North, counseling, ...
  2 weeks ago

• real. grape. goodness. [welchs markets to generation x moms]

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 474
  I absolutely loved Welchs grape juice as a kid. Now, the company is marketing to me for the sake of my kids. Generation X moms are the target market for Welchs new campaign Real. Grape. Goodness. The ads feature TV personality Alton Brown who is well-known among foodies. Currently featured under the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor, with illustrations by Jim Di Bartolo

  
  Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! — Authority: 108
  Remember your first kiss? While I’m sure it was exhilarating, it was most likely a great deal tamer than the supernatural busses that take center stage in Laini Taylor’s delicious collection of fantasy romances. In “Goblin Fruit,” a lonely girl wishes for love, but finds something else entirely behind a new ...
  2 weeks ago

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