Generation X and New Coke
Ray’s Supermarket, Dewey, Oklahoma. Right there by the Saltines was a display of New Coke. We tried it and didn’t like it very much, Of course, as it turns out, neither did anybody else, but not...
View ArticleUncle O’Grimacey and Shamrock Shakes
Sometimes, one must create a diversion from the troubles of the day, and what could be a better distraction than the pursuit of a McDonald’s Shamrock Shake? Generation X Nostalgia and The Ronald...
View Article1980s Prom Queen (With Pictures)
Prom Photos and Generations Welcome to Flashback Friday! Since it’s prom season in Oklahoma, I thought this photo of a group of Gen Xers from a 90s prom made for a fitting look back. All these girls...
View ArticleGen X We Didn’t Start The Fire Parody
This is not the first We Didn’t Start the Fire parody I’ve come across, but it’s the first I’ve seen for Generation X. It was published on YouTube in 2009 and features a guy named Patrick on Karaoke....
View ArticleThe Douglas Coupland Gen X Comic Strip You’ve Probably Never Seen
The first Gen X Comic Strip was created by Douglas Coupland and Paul Rivoche in the late 1980s. Read on to learn more. In September 1987, two-and-a-half years before the publication of Generation X:...
View ArticleWho are the Xennials?
Born on the cusp of Generation X and the Millennials is a micro-generation called the Xennials. They are a bridge between the two generations and “members” are often conflicted about which generation...
View ArticleWhere Did The Name Generation X Come From?
December 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of Douglas Coupland’s seminal novel Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture. Coupland is widely credited with solidifying the term Generation X in...
View ArticleWe Are Not The Lost Generation: The Gen X Essay That Went Viral Before We...
The following essay about Generation X, We Are Not A Lost Generation, was written during the late 1990s. It was first circulated via email and then later posted to numerous blogs and websites. The...
View ArticleRevealing Letter: Austrian Gen-Xer on Kids Raised by Parents Traumatized By War
Editor’s Note: The following post was originally a comment about the Austrian childhood left on the Who Is Generation X page. I thought it made some fascinating observations about Gen-Xers from...
View ArticleRare Pictures: Gen-X Seacoalers Harvested Coal on England’s Beaches in the...
The men are taking young Simon out to sea to ensure he does not become fearful of the sea because his father was drowned three weeks previously…I don’t know if I should use these photographs or how I...
View ArticleWhere Water Meets The Land
by Chloe Koffas, Contributing Writer Light From A Pixel Growing up in the high desert of New Mexico, every hot and dusty month of July held the promise of the rain of a monsoon season. Thunderstorms...
View ArticleGrowing Backlash Against Gen X Parents: Helicopter Parents and Overparenting
Helicopter Parents and Overparenting The cover of the latest issue of Time Magazine delivers yet another indictment on Generation X. The author Nancy Gibbs makes the case against overparenting,...
View ArticleCold War Cartoons and Commericals That Shaped Our Fear of Russia
Yesterday, CNN reported that Russia has tested its first stealth fighter jet, the fifth-generation Sukhoi. The plane is the country’s first fighter jet based on the stealth technology and is reportedly...
View ArticleWhy Ireland’s Generation X stares up at the ceiling at night
An Irish journalist named Ed Power who writes for London’s The Guardian has penned a personal column about the state of Generation X in Ireland where unemployment has reached 14 percent. (It appears on...
View ArticleGeneration X and War
“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with...
View ArticleAre 40-something women fooling themselves?
A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times published an article about Generation X women looking younger longer. It was re-tweeted about a million times. Here is an excerpt: The first wave of Gen-Xers has...
View ArticleJacob Wetterling and Why the Bike Rides Ended: A Memoir of Generation X...
This is Jacob Wetterling. 1978-1989. I first caught up with Justin, “a quiet guy in the Midwest, waiting to be seen…” after I read something he wrote on the now-defunct Open Salon. I liked it so much I...
View ArticleNeil Armstrong, MTV’s Man-on-the-Moon and Generation X
…And in our haste To grow up too soon We left our innocence On Desert Moon We were dreamers Only dreamers… From DeYoung and Desert Moon I was 22 months old in July 1969, when Neil Armstrong first...
View ArticleCrissy Doll: Forerunner of the American Girl Doll
Beautiful Crissy Doll Before Samantha Parkington, Felicity Merriman and Mollie McIntyre, late-wave Baby Boomers and first-wave Gen Xers were loving on Crissy, Cricket, Velvet, Mia, Dina and Tressy. I...
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...
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