The Gen X Thread: Older, Fatter, Still Alienated

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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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revbob wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 9:37pm
I go back to my home town every so often. Sometimes I'll see someone I recognize. I just observe.
When I am in my hometown I see someone I think I remember but then not sure if it is them or their parents.

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 2:30pm
Silent Majority wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 2:15pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Jan 2018, 1:15pm
Okay, 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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An 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.
I can relate to this. Fuckin' townies.
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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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Flex wrote:
22 Jan 2018, 12:56am
I live in the town I (mostly) went to high school in, but that's because Dillon is great.
That makes sense. I urge you to never visit Graham, WA.
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Kory wrote:
22 Jan 2018, 1:20pm
Flex wrote:
22 Jan 2018, 12:56am
I live in the town I (mostly) went to high school in, but that's because Dillon is great.
That makes sense. I urge you to never visit Graham, WA.
Or North Battleford, SK. Or, as my cousin sarcastically calls it, North Beautiful.
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Flex wrote:
22 Jan 2018, 12:56am
I live in the town I (mostly) went to high school in, but that's because Dillon is great.
I’ve been to Dillon and it is pretty great despite the conman Mayor and his monorail scheme.
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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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Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:09pm
Very good. Yes, very good.
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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Wolter wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:41pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:09pm
Very good. Yes, very good.
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.
Spot on in all aspects. And Mickey Dolenz!
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JennyB wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 2:26pm
Wolter wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:41pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:09pm
Very good. Yes, very good.
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.
Spot on in all aspects. And Mickey Dolenz!
And Paul Dooley!
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Wolter wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:41pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Aug 2018, 1:09pm
Very good. Yes, very good.
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.
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.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/alternative-to-what
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