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• New Featured Blog

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  That’s right kiddies time to change the sheets. And by sheets I of course mean the Featured Blog. New featured blog: John Hughes is Dead No sure what to say. Doesn’t really seem to require a justification. The title/content justifies it amply.
  2 days ago

• Another GenXer bites the dust

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  This time a younger one. Brittany Murphy at the age of 32 . That’s my wife’s age. Yikes! Of course, Brits got her start in the movie Clueless , directed by Amy Heckerling the creator of one of the all time great GenX flicks, Fast Time at   Ridgemont High , which launched the career of Sean Penn and ...
  2 days ago

• Bright Lights, Big City redux

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  When it gets cold like this, especially if it’s accompanied by snow, I’m reminded of when I lived in the dorms at school. Sitting with my feet up on the radiator, reading. While through my window I had a view of the dorm complex courtyard coated with a layer of snow that twinkled in the bright, even harsh at ...
  2 days ago

• Results of Fall 2009 Sloan Network Polls on Health, Generations at Work

  
  Work and Family Blog — Authority: 121
  Here are the results of two recent Network polls. Ninety-one respondents answered the following  health-related question this fall (October 15-November 31, 2009): Compared to before the recession, has your overall (mental and physical) health today, declined, stayed the same or improved? Slightly over half (51%) ...
  6 days ago

• Gen-Y is Here, So Deal With It and Win

  
  Startup Professionals Musings — Authority: 495
  If you have been hiding under a rock, you probably haven’t heard that the workplace is being invaded by a new generation of workers, and a lot of executives are not sure who will be the winners, and who will be the losers. Can they survive in business, and can business survive with them? Gen-Y is the generation ...
  1 week ago

• The other featured blog

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  In addition to the blog The 40-year-0ld Freshman you will note the link John Smolens . John is a friend and former creative writing teacher and he has a new book out, The Anarchist , which was released earlier this week. I just picked up my copy yesterday evening after work (I dragged my daughter straight to the ...
  1 week ago

• Another installment of The Pale King

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  That’s David Foster Wallace’s unpublished novel, the one he was working on when he decided to exit this plane of existence, and which is due to be published in 2010 sometime. As with the first part, The New Yorker magazine has published this second installment. Check it. You will not be sorry. I know that I ...
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• The "lost" generation after the boomers

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 143
  And, no, Im not talking about Hemingway pickling his liver in Paris while Stein wondered about Oakland. Im talking about those of us born in the first half of the 1960s, who really arent part of the Baby Boomer generation, though some demographers claim we are. And, were not really Gen X, either. We dont have the ...
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• The 40-year-old Freshman

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  No. That’s not a new Judd Aptow movie although…. It is my new featured blog , which came to me in a dream. No. Not really. Unless, of course, you consider JenX67’s blog a dream. And you know what, I kind of do… Anyhoo…. JenX67 has a post about GenX men and how, because of the economy, GenX men are ...
  1 week ago

• Discovered: 2 new GenX authors

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  In the midsts of reading Douglas Coupland’s latest novel, Generation A, which I’d been struggling with for a time but closing in on the end it’s really coming together, I discovered two more GenX authors. Well, I didn’t so  much discover them as stumble across them, which is one of the advantages of ...
  1 week ago

• My birthday post

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Its my birthday. Im going to give a gift to myself today. Im going to post five posts that make me happy.  I hope you will like reading them. I hope you havent read all of them already. Also, maybe in the comments section, you will post your favorite post back to me. And tell me why it makes you happy. That would be ...
  1 week ago

• This Year’s College Marketing Awards Go To…

  
  Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research — Authority: 115
  09′-10′ Best College Brand Winners Announcing Anderson Analytics ‘ Annual GenX2Z College Brand Award winners today. Each year, in the Fall semester, since 2005 Anderson Analytics has been tracking the most popular brands among 18-25 year olds in the GenX2Z US College Student Report. These brands have ...
  1 week ago

• Mama!

  
  Jessie X — Authority: 118
  The Muppet’s (a Silent Gen creation originally developed to help GenX children learn the challenges of adulthood) have their groove on with a slew of music videos. On November 23, 2009, the Muppets folk posted to YouTube this video. As of December 8th, the video has been viewed 9,722,185 times and has received ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hollywood: Stop Ruining My Childhood Memories

  
  NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation — Authority: 432
  By Scott Cameron Curtis Silver is somewhere between Gen X and Gen Y... He grew up on Super Mario Bros., Scooby-Doo, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now, he has a message for Hollywood: "Stop ruining my childhood memories!" I implore you Hollywood... Cease trying to make new films based on staples of my youth. It ...
  2 weeks ago

• Better Off Dead

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  Just added the movie Better Off Dead to my DVD library. Category: 80s Teen Angst Subgenre : John Cusack I remember catching I didn’t catch this movie at the theater but on cable, although where exactly I have not a clue. But I loved it. Because it was so different. I mean, a teen movie about suicide. ...
  2 weeks ago

• is marketing the underlying root cause of gen x overparenting?

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 429
     who markets to generation X? In a recent blog post, Amy Tiemann, Ph.D., and author of Mojo Mom: Nurturing Yourself While Raising a Family , asserts that marketing is an underlying root cause of overparenting . She is editing the forthcoming anthology Courageous Parenting . Tiemann writes: "As our ...
  2 weeks ago

• RIP Uncle Doc

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  It was a week ago yesterday my  uncle passed away. Got a text from my cuz about 2am that he’d died an hour earlier. He was 83 years old. His Christian name was Kenneth but as far back as anyone can remember he went by Doc, a nickname he picked  up as a kid, although I’m not sure how or why. Doesn’t matter. He ...
  2 weeks ago

• Facebook Only Social Network That Matters Among College Students

  
  Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research — Authority: 115
  Sharing a few findings from Anderson Analytics’ 5th Annual College Student Study today. Each year we’ve tracked opinions of 18-25 year olds in our GenX2Z panel. When we started the program in 2005, what made our study unique was that the 1,000+ students participating all had a confirmed .edu email addresses and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Under the Dome by Stephen King

  
  Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! — Authority: 450
  Their first sign was the small-engine plane crash. By the time the huge Irish Airlines jet crashed a few days later, they were already beginning to understand that the situation was not good, and wasn’t likely to get better. They are the townspeople of Chester’s Mill, Maine. There are about two thousand of them, ...
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• The Cell Phone Baby Book: Instruction Manual for Gen X Parents

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 429
  photo from Bear likes Beer (busy as a Bee) via flickr Heres a terrific Christmas present idea for the expectant parent, The Cell Phone Baby Book: Instruction Manual for Gen X Parents by Lauren Reidy Scheib. Only one copy is available on Amazon, so hurry up and get it while you can . There are also copies ...
  2 weeks ago

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