• Here’s a Quarter! Call Someone Who Cares! Now!

    Here’s a Quarter! Call Someone Who Cares! Now!

    The other day a young person I’ve known for years died tragically in a car accident. My child’s friends called this young person Ghost. That is how Ghost is listed in my phone. My last text with Ghost was more than a month ago. There will never be another with this delightful young adult taken…

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  • Deaf Culture Wins & the Turning Point Threats

    Deaf Culture Wins & the Turning Point Threats

    Barely a few weeks into 2025 GOP Conservatives are attacking essential services to the Deaf Community. These voices include Turning Point leader Charlie Kirk, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Heritage Foundation member Christopher Rufo, and contributing writer to Project 2025 and alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste, Richard Hanania. Why are…

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  • Neil Gaiman and the Fall of Gods and Men

    Neil Gaiman and the Fall of Gods and Men

    This is not the follow up piece to the Miami Vice Episode Eerily Relevant Now article I expected to write. But what do we do when heroes or friends are accused and who can be a predator? Neil Gaiman is the author of many works. Gen X Comic fans most likely discovered him in the…

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  • Miami Vice Episode Eerily Relevant Now

    Miami Vice Episode Eerily Relevant Now

    If we read in the news that the son of a wealthy CEO was under investigation for the rape an 18 year old immigrant, would we be shocked? Would we be surprised if the DA was reluctant to move forward despite physical evidence? If the charges were dropped by the victim would anyone be shocked?…

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  • How To Make Social Media Retro

    How To Make Social Media Retro

    Mark Zuckerburg not only announced that META will end fact checking, but he also baselessly accused the fact checkers of being “too politically biased” and said they “have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the U.S.” Elon Musk claims to value free speech, but has shown he might even penalize conservatives who disagree…

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  • Debbie Gibson Being Anxiously Lost In Her Eyes

    Debbie Gibson Being Anxiously Lost In Her Eyes

    On January 6th of 1989 Debbie Gibson released Lost in Your Eyes as a single. In less than 2 months it would climb to the top of the US and Canadian charts. At the tender age of 18 she became one of only four women to have written, produced, and performed multiple number one hits…

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  • Charlie Brown Stresses Out But Doesn’t Fail

    Charlie Brown Stresses Out But Doesn’t Fail

    39 years ago Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! premiered on CBS. It was the 30th network prime time special based on Peanuts and the last project helmed by Peanuts animater Bernard Gruver due to his passing away in June of 1985. Charlie Brown, as always, has something to teach us. He was stressed out, he…

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  • Gen X Watch’s First Year & Future on the Past

    Gen X Watch’s First Year & Future on the Past

    In January I started an experiment. Use nostalgia as the vehicle to have important discussions about now and the road ahead. Would people want to take this deeper journey beyond memes about the past being awesome? You came and a lot has happened and more is going to happen. The Idea Nostalgia is comfort. The music…

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  • Gen X Watch Year in Review: Your Top Ten!

    Gen X Watch Year in Review: Your Top Ten!

    Tomorrow we will be telling you about some exciting things to come for 2025 along with some special thanks to some people who made this space as wonderful as it is and will be. But for today, we wanted to jump into your top ten most read articles this last year…with a caveat. Fem Friday…

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  • Mary Makes it a Wonderful Life

    Mary Makes it a Wonderful Life

    Gen X grew up with Bedford Falls and George Bailey as part of their lives. Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life was played repeatedly on multiple channels every Christmas Season. But while we all focus on the lesson of George Bailey’s revelation that every person’s presence matters to others, there are some other messages that…

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