Gen-X Wonders Galore | SEPT 28
🦸🏽♂️Internet's New Hero 🥣Silly Rabbit 🚗Gremlins 🎙️Ghosted 🎬Times Square 💊Tylenol Poisonings 💌 Letter to GenX 🚀InnovationFest 💔Dax 📽️Kajillionaire 💰90210 👧🏿Cuties 📼GenX Mixtape + 🎃💤
🦸🏽♂️ The Internet’s New Hero
A man skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac while Ocean Spray is the Internet’s new hero.
🥣 Silly Rabbit
General Mills has partnered with Tribeca Drive-In to celebrate our love of classic Saturday morning cartoons and cold cereal.
💌 18 To Party Movie Billed As Love Letter to Gen-X
“A spot-on love letter to Gen X, awkward teenagers, and the transcendent power of friendship.”
💊 The Tylenol Poisonings Nearly Killed Halloween
“When a still-uncaught perp killed seven Chicagoans with cyanide-laced Tylenol in 1982, Halloween was nearly fear-mongered out of existence.”
📼 Gen-X Mixtape
The GenX Mixtape podcast chooses a theme each week and curates a mixtape of songs that fit. The hosts debate their choices and share trivia and background about the music and its artists.
🚗 Delicious Gremlins
The Gremlins in this photo look so delicious. Which color is your favorite?
🎙️ Now What Gen X?
Tina Miller’s fourth episode in the Now What Gen X? podcast is about friendship including how to cope with being ghosted.
🚀 Innovation Festival
Robert Downey, Jr. and his wife Susan, Janelle Monáe, and Chip and Joanna Gaines are among the featured speakers in the first-ever virtual Fast Company Innovation Festival, October 5-9. I think you can get a free ticket good for five free sessions.
🎬 Times Square
This month marks the 40th anniversary of Times Square, the 1980 movie starring Trini Alvarado (b. 1967) and Robin Johnson (b. 1964). It’s about two girls from the opposite sides of the track run who run away from a mental institution and forge a relationship on the streets of New York. Together, they form an underground punk rock band.
📽️ Kajillionaire Trailer
Glad they left Gen-X out of this. lol. “Kajillionaire shows how boomers stole from millennials — and what they'll keep stealing. Miranda July made a heist film that's less about larceny and more about how the Me Generation is determined to take from us everything they can carry.” (NBC News)
💔 Dax Shepard Relapse
Actor, director, and writer Dax Shepard (b. 1975) talks about his recent relapse after 16 years of sobriety. Shepard is the host of the weekly Armchair Expert podcast featuring celebrities, journalists, and academics about the messiness of being human.
👧🏿 Jen Fulwiler on Cuties
Jen Fulwiler is a writer, blogger, podcaster, and comedian. A former atheist, she is a convert to Catholicism and a mother of six kids. She recently published an episode for her podcast titled, I Watched Cuties So You Don’t Have.
💰 New 90210 Book*
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first episode of 90210 Tori Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting has written a book, A Very Special 90210 Book: 93 Absolutely Essential Episodes from TV’s Most Notorious Zip Code. Ariano and Bunting are the hosts of Again With This podcast, which “shares the joy, pain, and shoulder pads of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place. *Affiliate Link
✏️ Totally Quotable
“I’m a Gen-Xer so I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.” —@catwhisprer
📛 ICYMI: Nameless Generation
Episode 3 of my monthly podcast is about the erasure of Generation X, the middle-child of history once considered a nameless generation.
💤 Gen Z Tattoo Nightmare
An 18-year-old tried to unite her generation, Gen Z, with a call for a “Z” tattoo and ended up in a hellish controversy, accused of being a Nazi sympathizer.
🎃 I hope a pumpkin spice latte is in your future.
The ticker-tape parade of autumn is right outside my window. The days are getting shorter, the leaves are changing color and football is sorta happening. Welcoming you to the season is the ongoing spectacle of pumpkin-flavored drinks. Let the battle between 7-Eleven and Starbucks begin. And, may the best PSL: Pumpkin Spice Latte win.
The pumpkin has long-been the rock star of October. Whether tucked underneath the arm of a headless horseman or carved into a jack-o’-lantern, the pretty orange gourd flickers through the season.
In 1850, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote The Pumpkin.
Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
Speaking of burning wax, pumpkin drinks smell like scented candles. Still, we raise our pumpkin lattes in solidarity. I mean, if you get one of these drinks and you don’t Instagram it, it didn’t really happen.
By the way, did you know, you can make your own pumpkin spice lattes? All you need is milk, sugar, vanilla, some Jack-o’-Lantern tears, a dash of glitter, and exactly three drops of coffee. Love is in the air!
The actor and comedian Dennis Leary once said there are four words we will never hear him say: Pumpkin spice latte, please. But, I hope a PSL is somewhere in your future.