April 2003
My New Name
Posted by on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 in - 2 comments
My name is easily misspelled. Alan can be Allen, or Allan or even Alain and still be legit. McLeod can be MacLeod. It can also be M'Leod as it was in my grandparents' time. It can also be butchered as McCloud or MacLoud. My new account with a BCE regional telco called Bell, however …
Paddy Roy
Posted by on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 in - 4 comments
CBC.ca says "according to the newspaper report, Roy's house in Littleton, Colorado has been for sale for the past couple of months. Jacques Demers says he packing it in. If so, it is the end of something that should be noted. • I have never liked the Habs, mainly due to living through the …
My cohort and some great faiths
Posted by on Monday, April 28, 2003 - 3 comments
Apparently my milestone, this Gen X hitting 40 thang, is not just an incarnation of my own navel gazing - it appears the priests and the rabbis are all over it. Still, topping Google a few days after noticing the silence on end of my cohort's youth sure makes you wonder. I am still pretty sure …
The Next Book I am Going to Read.
Posted by on Sunday, April 27, 2003 in - 3 comments
The next book I am going to read is this one by a guy from Truro, Leo McKay Jr. Well, he works in Truro, gets paid to walk the halls of CEC and - unlike every other person I know who walked the halls of CEC and thought about getting a book published - he actually gets books published. Truro …
Brent
Posted by on Sunday, April 27, 2003 in - 5 comments
I have developed a bad habit of emailing Brent Bambury over the last few weeks. I can't help it. Those of you out of the Eastern Ontario range of CBC radio will only know him as the former host of CBC TV's Midday and the current host of Radio 1's Groove Shinney. Luckily for we in Kingston and East …
Thanks Gwynne...
Posted by on Friday, April 25, 2003 in - leave a comment
Gen X. Should have been copyrighted by somebody. Coupland for his book? Billy Idol for his band? Common elements I see: • Expo 67 as a kid • punk rock began just around puberty • recessions hit just around started looking for work • All the emotional drag of the Cold War without …
Why Gen X at 40?
Posted by on Friday, April 25, 2003 in - 16 comments
I just turned 40. I am not obsessed with either being 40 or being someone born between 1960 and 1966, but I am wondering where the hoopla is. I lived through every anniversary of Baby Boomers hitting 30, 40 and 50 as worth of TV news and Time covers but for the slacker gen - zip. • So …
