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This week’s greatest hits on the Gen X side of the Internets…

• Don Cheadle Is Every Gen Xer – by Maiysha Kai (theroot.com)
• 40 Years of MTV: the channel that shaped popular culture as we know it – by Adam Behr (salon.com)
• What the Cast of Pump Up The Volume is Doing Today – by Michileen Martin (looper.com)
• Hold Me Back podcast – Son and Father Bridge the Generational Divide (holdmeback.com)
• When Gen X Ruled the Multiplex – Morgan Richter (youtube.com)

Links for the weekend. Happy reading!

• TikTok Smells Like Gen X Spirit by Virginia Heffernan (wired.com)
• The Malevolent Madness of ‘The Ren & Stimpy Show,’ 30 Years Later by Rob Harvilla (theringer.com)
• As Gen Xers encounter ageism in job hunt, skills training could be crucial by Caitlin Mullen (bizjournals.com)
• Woodstock 94 Revisited by Danielle Modica (nysmusic.com)
• We’re Still Getting Woodstock ’99 Wrong by Craig Jenkins (vulture.com)

TikTokers we dig

• Get your Gen X Updates here: (corrbette)
• Unashamedly GenX (khadeejamorse)
• Nostalgia galore here: (kevinjamesthornton)

Links of the week:

• Sheryl Crow: ‘Surviving breast cancer redefined who and how I am’ by Michael Segalov (theguardian.com)
• Sleater-Kinney tiny desk (home) concert (npr.org)
• Questlove Supreme podcast episode with Sleater-Kinney (iheart.com)
• How the Pacific Northwest became a coffee paradise by Jordan Michelman (pdx.eater.com)
• 11 singers who helped define the vocal style of punk rock in the 90s by Tim Stegall (altpress.com)
• Vaccination Stats – let’s all get those shots!!! (nytimes.com)

Remember back in the early days of the internet, when we had angel fire sites and the page that nearly every hand coded html site listed was a link page? On hippiegrrl.com we called that page ‘linkland’ and it was where good links went to live and languish. The linkland page required a lot of upkeep as websites came and went in a flash, but it was a great repository for curating content of the time. Ah – the 90s. In honour of the webs beginning – I am going to post a weekly list of links that you might enjoy. I won’t have to go back and do maintenance to the ‘linkland’ page anymore, since we can consider them stale once the week is over. Such are the present days of the internet – here today, gone tomorrow. Thanks for reading and enjoy!

This week in gen x related content:

• Whatever Happened to Generation X? by Ashley Primis (phillymag.com) – from 2018, but still VERY relevant
• Douglas Coupland on Generation X at 30: “Generational trashing is eternal” (The Guardian)
• Dark Side of the 90s Trailer Teases Vice TV’s Newest Docuseries (comingsoon.net)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Celebrates 35 Years by Danielle Solzman (solzyatthemovies.com)
• Growing Old in New York City by Tracy Kaler (tracysnewyorklife.com)
• When Ferris Bueller goes shopping: The return of the Trapper Keeper by Michael Hallisey (spotlightnews.com)