Monthly Archives: August 2021

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)