Category: Culture
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When the Nostalgia Powered Time Machine Breaks
Wayback Wednesdays are normally easy to write. I look at On This Day in the 80’s, find a topic, become the living time machine, and have a few paragraphs of fun while embracing the importance of the positive side of nostalgia. But right now it is hard to do. In my personal life I am…
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Anniversaries and Conversations We Need
Content Advisory! This is about suicide. We get into the thick of it for this one. November 11th of 2019. There was a snowstorm. Bad one. Airports were shut down in Chicago. Flights cancelled. I lay on my bedroom floor that day waiting to die. Next to me was an empty bottle of pills and…
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Women’s Thoughts on the New Fem Friday!
Fem Friday has a new home in Tawnlandia! You can read it on Tawnlandia’s Medium Channel for Fem Friday. If you want to listen to it read by a seasoned audiobook reader you can listen for free on her Patreon or her Feminist Forum. There is a new emphasis in the Fem Friday’s in this…
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When Fem Friday is More Important Than the Election
What could be more important than the most important election in history according to social media? When a Fem Friday is in the ICU. The last time I saw her we met at a restaurant. We closed out the restaurant that day. We laughed in the parking lot about how 4 hours felt like 20…
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What does Faith and Vampires With Open Letters Share?
Faith, Hot Vampires, Open Letters, White Bic Lighters, Wednesday Addams and Large Shoulder Pads. What could any of these things possibly have to do with one another? Other than being in this article together? Not much. October has been an amazing month at Gen X Watch. We have had another month of amazing growth. 13%…
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How to Burn Down the Locker Room and Why
Is the locker room a safe space for men to speak what they truly think? Does the locker room exist wherever two or men are gathered together? Is it necessary to challenge the locker room? How do we do it? Defining the Locker Room Locker Room Talk is not in the dictionary, but it is…
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Weird Al Giving to Himself as He Gives to Others
Today is Weird Al’s Birthday. Most know him for his parodies of top artists and songs over the decades. Some know him for his movie presence and voice over acting. Regardless of how people know him they know him for the humor and kindness he gives to the world with the gift of laughter. Everyone…
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It’s Okay to Want a Slushy Groovy Kind of Love
October 22nd of 1988 Phil Collins’ remake of The Mindbenders 1966 classic Groovy Kind of Love became the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. What were the deeper undertones of this song? What did it do to us culturally and as a society? Was there more to the story of this song? Honestly? It…
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Human League’s Invasion Inspired by Toxic Love
On October 16th of 1981, The Human League began the second British Invasion with the release of their third album ‘Dare!’ Two of the founding members left. Front man Phillip Oakley was at the helm and in a do or die moment. The album would either be a new chapter or the end of Human…
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Vampires are Hot, and Other Lessons of the ‘90s
By Kimberly Thalia One of my earliest memories is a nightmare I had when I was four. I was in an empty cave lit by torches. A section of the wall looked a Scooby Doo kind of different and when it slid open, your classic vampire entered. He said, “I vant to suck your blood!”…
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Patrick, you are a wonderful, compassion-driven writer. Glad I read this piece. Keep healing. Keep writing. Keep sharing how performance…
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