Ears do bleed

I love this website (not mine. I mean the one referenced below)

Never woulda remembered this myself. The commercial in the link is hilarious, too.

Clueless writers should have their keyboards taken away

Here we have an idiot that makes it seem as though before last week's Farrah and Michael Jackson deaths, Generation X was just an immature bunch that played in sandboxes with toy trucks and Barbie dolls.

Although I don't consider myself a "Pillar of Maturity" I'm sure I was more grown up as a 5th grader than a typical baby boomer at a similar age. I know I'm not a alone with this thought, either. Fuck, a good portion of us went home to empty houses after school and had to make our food and manage our time much earlier than other generations still alive today.

"These people were on our lunchboxes," said Gary Giovannetti, 38, who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. "This," he said, "is the moment when generation X realises they're grown up."

It was a long time coming. Cynical, disaffected, rife with attention deficit disorder, lost between boomers and millennials and sandwiched between Vietnam and the war on terrorism, gen X has always been an oddity. It was the product of a transitional age when we were still putting people on celebrity pedestals but only starting to make an industry out of dragging them down.

NOTE: I love how this clown quotes 1 GenXster and then tries to make his point around it. As though Gary Giovannetti has been appointed by us as our official spokesman.

Also note how this asshole somehow wants to attribute today's "Celebrity Culture" to Gen X. WTF? Any fool knows that Gen Y members Britney, Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton not only deserve the credit for this, they also want the credit for this.

Boomer wannabe (update to text)

This guy should just turn over his Gen X membership to someone more deserving. Poor brainwashed guy thinks we should worship crap the boomers did. Let the baby boomer cars go to the junkyard when the baby boomers go to the graveyard.

I was fortunate to have a Dad who taught me about cars as I grew up and it was more than just nuts and bolts, but also an appreciation for what these antique cars were capable of in their heyday. Attending car shows and race events made me want to someday own a “muscle car”, and a few years ago we found our 1972 Dodge Demon 340. I will be turning 31 this year, and when I attend local classic car shows I generally find that I am usually the youngest person in attendance. There are other owners my age, but in most cases they are driving much newer vehicles so I’m lead to wonder, is my generation dropping the ball on the classic and antique sports cars?

You gotta know when to turn the page on the past, Mr. Rall. Holding onto what your father held as important is just retardo. Hell, it's not as though baby boomers said "Gee, I gotta have me a 1923 Duesenberg like mah daddy had".

Turn the lights off when the show is over, fer christsakes. I mean, Jeebus, I bet this guy thinks Crosby, Stills and Nash is the most awesomest band evvvahhh, too.

Beautiful, glorious baby boomer hatin'

This post would have been near perfect HAD HE NOT TITLED IT AFTER A GODDAMN BABY BOOMER SONG!

I hate everything about them: their reckless self-absorption; their ghastly, repetitive music; their timorous, by-the-book attitude toward child rearing. Lately, boomers like filmmaker Ken Burns and columnist Tom Friedman have taken to delivering pompous graduation speeches, apologizing for bollixing up the world. Burns claimed to this year’s Boston College grads that his generation has “squandered the legacy handed to them by the generation from World War II.’’

Little waves today

Us desperate Gulfsters will try to surf a sailboat wave.

Getting anxious for college football

Sorry fans of other teams, but #15 is back to win his 3rd National Title in four years.

And please remember: When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Tim Tebow.

The now legendary pledge:

I love when we're #1 at something

Although this is nothing to be proud of.....

The generation leading the revolution in divorce is, of course, Gen X. The biggest change is that there is a generation of people getting a divorce who were more or less equals in parenting and in work. Baby boomers talked about it, but when the women went to work, they did all the housework and childcare as well. Not as true with Gen X.

Gen X woman say "bye-bye"

Not just the dudes liked her.

One swath of your adoring public is isn't talking about The Poster so much. Gen-X women are talking about Jill Munroe, the character you played on "Charlie's Angels," and how you taught us to kick butt.

Austin sez "Wek's still too hung-over to blog...

....so here's some music.".

(yes, I do have a pet turtle)



Van Halen is the only band able to play a sappy song that doesn't suck. Except for Sammy Hagar (The Horrible) era Van Halen. He destroyed the greatest band of my youth.

Michael Jackson - RIP

Very hard to imagine modern Pop and Hip Hop without his enormous presence. My favorite song remains Beat It (completely based on Eddie Van Halen laying down the guitar solo).

Cancer doesn't care how pretty one is

As a kid I had a T-shirt with the above picture across my chest. She's definitely the first woman that grabbed my attention. Toys and puppies were of little importance after seeing Farrah.

The end of Farrah Fawcett's life may have played out in the tabloids, but she belonged to us first. And by "us" I mean Generation X, generally, and the boys who cut their teeth chewing the plastic wrap off her rolled-up posters. She was our "first" -- the leggy blond model from Texas imprinted on our brains eons before the likes of Jerry Hall or Anna Nicole Smith sashayed into our field of vision.

Did I just say something?

I've been afflicted by this since grade school. And I can't even use drugs as an excuse.

Wednesday in Washington, experts gave some tips based on recent science, and suggested Gen-Xers and even Generation Y should be concerned now about 'brain fade.'

They found strong evidence that mentally challenging activities like aerobic exercise and social interaction can slow down 'brain fade.'

Still in surfing mode

The sickest move ever. This will truly revolutionize the sport. I don't mind if Gen Y shows us up doing things like this.

I'm a 'No Tell Motel' kinda guy

I've stayed at places that stole my towel.

Among Generation X (adults born between 1965 and 1978), the most preferred hotel is Holiday Inn, too. Other much-liked hotel brands are Marriott and Hilton.

Among Baby Boomers (adults born between 1946 and 1964), the three most popular hotel chains are Marriott, Holiday Inn, and Hilton—with no clear favorite. These three hotels were favored twice as much as brands like Sheraton, Hyatt, and Comfort Inn.

Holiday Inn our favorite, huh? Well we've never been accused of having class.

Loved us, then left us

MTV got us hard, then got up, put its clothes on and left our apartment while we wondered where it went.

......we created shows that will turn the baby boomers and generation X off such as The Paper, My Super Sweet Sixteen Presents: Exiled, Legally Blonde: The Search of Elle Woods, From G's to Gents, Paris Hilton's My New BFF, and so forth. We've already had success in fulling the so-called Obama Generation/ Bill and Belinda Gates requirement by creating shows that have to do with empowerment like Made, Taking The Stage,The Girls of Hedsor Hall, Bromance, Daddy's Girls, The City, and The Real World: Brooklyn. And don't forget College Life, the cheapest show ever seen on MTV. And are we stopping here? No. We're just getting started. We've already looked to the future by creating new MTV shows just for the millennials with DJ and The Fro, Is She Really Going Out With Him?, Silent Library, and It's On With Alexa Chung. And we've got more news that you've been waiting for, we've got more of The Hills. Expect to see more Lo, Stephanie, Speidi, and Audrina than ever before. Plus, the latest edition of Kristin Cavallari will surely make The Hills as unappealing as ever to viewers, but not to our shareholders. And the biggest news of all, coming to our sister-network VH1, the return of Jessica Simpson in a brand new reality series proving that beauty is skin-deep.

Monks like surfing, too

Friar Tuck tears up this wave.

I feel whupped. In the H2O from 6:00 PM til sundown. Awesome time.

Good night.

"Sit down, Waldo!"

Dedicated to all the teachers that are enjoying their summer break.

Enjoy the now. Even if it does suck.

So, you think baby boomers are screwing us over now? Just wait until they're gone. The last drop of wealth will be buried with the final boomer we throw dirt on.

Generation X. They left school in the last recession, entered the workforce at a dismal time for employment, and have crawled their way through, waiting for the baby boomers to leave. And just when they think, "OK, we're in our 40s, it's our turn" a recession hits again.

The First Home Owner Grant was probably too late for generation X; many were already in the housing market. We still haven't solved things around maternity leave or child care and the Xers then shift that onto the boomers: "Can you look after my child twice a week while I go to work?"

The swell is coming!

Well, sort of. I went out for an hour this evening and the waves are about 1/2 the size you see above (pic taken during Hurricane Ike). The Gulf Coast is wave deprived. Just a bunch of stray cat surfers over here getting what we can.