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Monthly Archives: August 2021

Weekly Linkland Post – 8.24.2021

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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)

Weekly Linkland Post 8.13.2021

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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)

Weekly Linkland Post 8.4.2021

punkgrrrl August 04, 2021 Reading Leave a Comment

Links of the week…

  • The Rise and Reimagining of MTV by Kovie Biakolo (zora.medium.com)
  • Slackers and Smartphones: A Generation X Rant by Rena Willis (medium.com)
  • ‘What Made That Decade Special?’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Revisits the Enigmatic ’80s with Adrian Loving by Maiysha Kai (theroot.com)
  • HBO’s Woodstock ’99 Documentary is a Harrowing Look at the Anger and Entitlement of Young White Men by Vivian Kane (themarysue.com)

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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Vurt
Morvern Callar
Naked
High Fidelity
Slaves of New York
A Certain Age
Kitchen
The Giver
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Bell Jar
Journals
The Virgin Suicides
The Ice Storm
Less Than Zero
Prozac Nation
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Bright Lights, Big City


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