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TunesDay: that new old sound

Posted on 2009.01.27 by winterSmith 6 comments

If you pay attention to my music entries, you may have noticed a recurrent theme. It seems a lot of the bands I hear these days, many of which I really like, remind me of bands from the past. Like The Mary Onettes: I recently tripped across one such example, Sweden’s The Mary Onettes. They can’t seem to make up

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The “dumbest generation”: sloppy thinking, maybe, but it’s put-up-or-shut-up time for Gen X

Posted on 2008.12.08 by winterSmith 18 comments

In the past I’ve written about a variety of generational issues, and have often focused on the Millennials. At times I’ve been construed as dogging them pretty hard. As I’ve tried to explain, my criticisms of them (for being entitled, for lacking critical thinking skills, etc.) haven’t really been criticisms of them, per se – a cohort that’s 75-100 million