Some Filler, Some Ideas, Some Other Stuff
To those who read this blog semi-regularly: I apologize for my delays in updates. I've been saddled with other work, leaving my blog by the digital wayside. But I pledge now to do more updating. Here are a few things that I've been thinking about/that I'll be blogging about in the future:
++ Hard to believe, but it's been 15 years (this month, in fact) since Douglas Coupland's Generation X was published. Whatever you think of the book, it gave rise to a media firestorm as everybody tried to get a handle on that (or my) "generation"....and the term still has merit today. I've never felt comfortable with it, and I remember when The Baffler came out with it's "Twentynothing" issue....ah, those were good days, the early 90s....No Internet, and coffee could still be purchased without a small mortgage. I feel sorry for the Gen Y folks....not near as much effort has gone into trying to reduce them into a marketing demographic.
++ The DUMBO Report will be returning, soon, so all you DUMBO Lovers (and haters), please stay tuned. I'll do my best to answer your questions.
++ I've never, ever watched an episode of American Idol. I'm one the 13 people who has never seen it. Funny thing is, even actively avoiding the show, I cannot escape it. It's everywhere. I guess I just don't get it. I'm sure I'm out of touch, old fashioned and missing a crucial aspect of our culture, but there is so much great music that I currently own and that I hardly have to time to listen to....that I don't really care that much about a bunch of amateurs. Oh well. Clearly hundreds of millions of other people do.
++ If I read one more silly article about "how much the NCAA basketball tournament is costing us in terms of lost productivity" I'm going to....be a lot less productive. We get it. Americans like sports more than they like crappy jobs that take place in cubicles. Nobody talks about how much is lost due to discussions of, say, the use of lanuage and allegory in the works of Michael Chabon or Paul Auster, but it must be in the high three figures.
More to come later...
