Category: Culture

The More You Know And Schoolhouse Rock

What do PSA’s from our childhood and changing things you need change have to do with each other? Do Patti Smith, speeding muscle cars and heart attacks have a role in change? How do we get through this? Whatever this is. Let’s start with a story. Storytime and the Heart Attack It is a Summer…
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January 30, 2025
Prepare to be Assimilated! Resistance is Futile!

What does my grandmother, Star Trek, a deleted X post by Eric Trump and resistance have to do with each other? On May 8th of 1989 Star Trek the Next Generation aired the episode “Q-Who”. In this episode we were introduced to the cybernetic humanoid race known as the Borg. They wanted every race they…
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January 27, 2025
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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January 23, 2025
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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January 20, 2025
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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January 16, 2025
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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January 9, 2025
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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January 2, 2025
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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December 31, 2024
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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December 30, 2024
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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December 23, 2024