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Blue Plate Special Life happens to us all — if we’re lucky. If we’re lucky, we live long enough to grow old; to see our children’s children grow up. To see our own generation live through all four...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Video Highlights Generational Conflict, Gen Y vs. Boomers
Before the Great Recession of 2008, there was little generational conflict between Gen Y (the Millennial Generation) and Baby Boomers. In fact, the two were more or less engaged in a love fest. It was...
View ArticleText In The Time of Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it...
View ArticleGen X News: 20 Movie Remakes, Lou Reed, Social Security and the Vanishing...
It’s back to the feeding trough for some blog posts and news stories about Generation X. Do these posts bore your palate? Sometimes, they put mine to sleep. I guess every blue plate special can’t be...
View ArticleGreenwich Village: Music That Defined A Generation
Did you write the book of love. And do you have faith in God above. If the Bible tells you so? — Don McClean Greenwich Village: Music That Defined A Generation, opened in Manhattan last night. The film...
View ArticleGeneration Stuff To Help You Wile Away Your Sunday
Here are some stories with a generational flare to help you wile away your Sunday. Two questions have been asked about God for generations: 1) Where was He when that bad thing happened to me? and 2) Is...
View ArticleGeneration X News Stories
I have been so busy with work the past few months that I’ve not had time to put together a post of all the current news about Generation X. I’ve always called this feature the Blue Plate Special....
View ArticleMcDonald’s: Phil A. O’Fish
Throwback Thursday It’s time for another Throwback Thursday. The weeks are speeding by, and soon the kids will be out of school for the summer. Yea! Today is McDonald’s 74th Birthday. Here are some of...
View ArticleGeneration X: Prepare For A Frugal Retirement
Hamilton Nolan of Gawker is so funny. And, occasionally cruel if you’re a member of Generation Y. He wrote a hilarious (and depressing) piece yesterday on the grim prospects of the Generation X...
View ArticleSandwich Generation
Sandwich Generation Over the past several years, I’ve read everything ever written about my generation, and I don’t know much, but I know this is true. Generation X (1961-81) is sandwiched between the...
View ArticleLatchkey Childhood Memoir
JenX is a weekly commentary on KOSU featuring four female voices from one Generation — Generation X. All the women are named Jennifer, the most popular name for girls of my generation. Click here to...
View ArticleBlue Lagoon Look-Alikes
Here is my latest Best of Flickr find. A couple of Gen-Xers swimming together in the Swansea Dam. They’re Blue Lagoon look-alikes! The Blue Lagoon came out in 1980 and starred Brooke Shields (b. 1965)...
View Article50 Generation X Movies, 50 States: One Iconic Film For Each State
Our criteria for choosing the movies was pretty simple and straightforward. From Fight Club to The Breakfast Club, we asked ourselves, “Does it include a Gen-X icon and/or bear witness to the...
View ArticleBest of Generation X Blogs | Blue Plate Special
Here’s a round-up of some of the best Generation X blog and micro-blog posts I’ve come across in recent days. I’ve interspersed them with some great vintage summer camp pictures I found here and there....
View ArticleBoyhood Film
There’s a new film out called Boyhood. As I flipped through the pictures of the leading character – a real-life boy filmed over 12 years – I wondered what insane curse has been leveled against humanity...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Ivywild
In the spring of 1974, I attended Ivywild Elementary School in Colorado Springs. My time there was very brief — maybe two weeks at the most — but the building captured my imagination. Ivywild was built...
View ArticleThe Generation Without A Disney Princess
There are so many princess movies I can’t keep up with them all. That’s why it’s hard to believe that Disney did not make a new princess movie for nearly 30 years. It’s a true story, friends....
View Article25 Years Gone: Rebecca Schaeffer of My Sister Sam
I am so wise to think love will prevail. I am so wise. — Rebecca Schaeffer, 1989 Tomorrow, July 18, 2014, is the 25th anniversary of the death of Rebecca Schaeffer. Schaeffer was a 21-year-old...
View ArticlePart 1: Generations in Pursuit of the American Dream
Yesterday, Forbes launched a seven-part series with Neil Howe, Generations In Pursuit of the American Dream. Check out Are You Born To Be Better Off Than Your Parents? Howe is the author of numerous...
View ArticleFriday Blue Plate Special | July 18, 2014
What are you doing this weekend? Tonight, Juliette and I are going to see a film at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. On Saturday, Rob and I are taking all the kids to the Oklahoma Opry (now called the...
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