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  • Generation X gets really old: How do slackers have a midlife crisis?

    While the past midlife crisis model focused on breaking down confining bonds, chipping away at that adult façade to return to the fountain of youth, Xers are still in full construction mode. “I’ve made a list – it’s the ‘do-better’ list,” Leslie Mann’s character tells her husband in Judd Apatow’s flawed but occasionally insightful “This…

  • This life gives you nothing – Blackbird Spyplane

    when I was much more active on Twitter than I am now, I’d find myself, e.g., washing dishes and, without wanting to, thinking about various mundane things in the form of tweets. Some nascent half-kernel of an idea would come to me and, like a hack comedian for whom every banal thing is material, I…

  • This is 81

    “My elder daughter is two years shy of 60, and my younger daughter is 54. I like being old enough to follow the narrative of their lives.”