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  • Phil Collins and the Long Long Way to Go Now

    Is the world too hard to handle? Do we need to face the suffering? What happens when we turn off empathy? Phil Collins’ “Long Long Way to Go” is a punch to the gut, a reminder of the world I came of age in and how it shaped us. Whenever I hear that haunting chorus,…

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  • Ch-Ch-Changes(Turn and Face the Strain)

    Gen x Watch has existed since January of last year. In all but two months it has grown in readership and clicks month after month. I hope that continues to happen, but I will be reducing the content to one article a week starting this week. Monday’s we will be starting off the week with…

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  • Hearts of Glass With the Heartbeat of Blondie

    The news hit me hard and this was hard to write: Clem Burke, the drummer of Blondie, died at age 70 after a private battle with cancer. We’ve lost not just a drummer, but the beat of my youth. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Blondie’s songs were the soundtrack of my coming-of-age. Today,…

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