Posts Tagged: Gen X and Other Generations
The Last Fad
Posted by on Thursday, June 16, 2005 in - 3 comments
Ian muses about the last Gen X fad, mid-90s retro swing. It lasted a bit later in the Maritimes with the Johnny Favorite Swing Orchestra being nominated for the 1999 Best Group in the ECMA's and a Juno in 2000 - they collapsed soon thereafter and Johnny found out soon that his self as solo was not …
Retirement
Posted by on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 in - leave a comment
I noticed this change to the law being announced in this morning's Star: • “Ontario will become the latest province to take steps outlawing mandatory retirement at 65 when Labour Minister Chris Bentley details his plan today at a store where many seniors work: Home Depot. The chain was chosen …
I Don't Want That Revival, Thanks
Posted by on Sunday, February 13, 2005 in - 11 comments
In a good article in the NYT called "We Hate the 80s", on the shocking attempt to revive nostalgia for bands like Duran Duran and Motley Crue, an interesting point is made about Generation X which I think is fairly valid: • “ According to Ann Fishman, president of Generational Targeted Marketing …
Totally Dad
Posted by on Saturday, January 15, 2005 in - 1 comment
When I worked in the Wool Sweater Outlet in Halifax's Historic Properties in 1985, all the junior-high south end Halifax kids wanted the 48" chest oiled wool sweaters to wear with their shorts and woolly socks as the Halifax cool uniform. Although I told them (and sold them) the 40 inch to let the …
Blork Speed
Posted by on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 in - 1 comment
The Blork Blog has a well-written post on 1970s speeding on highway 101 in the Annapolis Valley. That same summer or perhaps the one before, prior to our move to Truro and Grade 10, I was a passenger in a car doing the same thing on the same stretch. A few years later a pal was stopped by the …
Yuppie Flu
Posted by on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 in - leave a comment
Days like these, when the caffeine does not seem to be pushing me up fully through the surface of consciousness, I think - maybe I have "the yuppie flu". Remember that? Well, I guess it turned out not to be just for yuppies. Not my generation anyway, as was noted in 1999: • “Baby boomers at risk …
Not Bad...
Posted by on Thursday, July 10, 2003 in - 3 comments
While I usually do not like top ten lists, usually don't find humour sites humourous and, despite the name of this blog, am not particularly driven by demographics, this list is not far off the mark: "looking backwards in a station wagon". Gold. We still use the Quazar top loading VCR.
Demographic Scratchy Fightin'
Posted by on Sunday, May 25, 2003 in - 11 comments
I am used to resentment by Gen Xers such as me of Boomers. Boomers are the bosses who don't get it, the collapsers of their depression-kid parents' pension schemes for the sake of post M&A "rationalization", triumphailists who leave others to pick up the pieces, hippies turned neo-cons. Why …
