It’s 3:36 a.m. on March 10th, and I’m listening to New Divide, by Linkin Park. Chester Bennington is belting out the lyrics in his frenetic high-pitched voice, and he’s really amping me up.
His lyrics are angst-ridden, full of pain and suffering, but he’s got a poetic bravery to him as well.… Continue Reading
Gen X Chronicle brings you the latest installment of Today in Trump Land, where we chronicle the doings, comings and goings of the Trump Administration. I say comings and goings because no other American Presidential administration has had such a high rate of turnover as the current one.… Continue Reading
OK, so they estimate that about a billion people watched the Oscars telecast tonight. And there were a lot of storylines leading up to the ceremony. There were the sexual harassment scandals and the #MeToo movement, the success of the all-black production of Black Panther and the call for more inclusion, the backdrop of the #OscarsSoWhite movement from 2015, and the underlying horror of the Trump Administration’s attempts to reverse 50 years of racial, social and economic progress.… Continue Reading
I’ve been listening to Neil Young all night, the song Sugar Mountain especially, and it’s an incredibly dope song. And for the last hour or so I’ve been chilling in the kitchen by the large window with the lights out, listening to Neil on my Google Home.… Continue Reading
I recently launched my new media startup, genxchronicle.com. It’s news, culture and lifestyle and through a Generation X lens. As Generation X, we don’t have the shadow of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights struggle hanging over us like the Boomers do.… Continue Reading
Yesterday President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on imports of foreign steel and aluminum, sending financial markets tumbling nearly 2%. Today he doubled down with a series of early-morning tweets, the most shocking of which was “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”… Continue Reading
By now all of America is aware of the horror of the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Seventeen innocent students lost their lives, and an entire community was traumatized, all because a mentally unstable 19-year old was able to legally purchase an assault rifle.… Continue Reading