Today Gen X Chronicle is debuting a new feature where we chronicle the doings, comings and goings of the Trump Administration. I say comings and goings because no other American administration has had such a high rate of turnover as the current one.… Continue Reading
Bruce Willis has a new movie coming out, in case you haven’t heard. It’s a remake of “Death Wish,” the sadism revenge porn thriller starring Charles Bronson from the 1970’s. In each movie, an older professional man — Willis is a doctor and Bronson was an architect — sees his family brutally murdered by thugs, and decides to take the law into his own hands by becoming a one-man wrecking crew.… Continue Reading
It’s 3:57 am, and I’m eating blueberries while listening to Marvin Gaye on Spotify. The current song is “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” and it’s one of his all-time classics, released in 1967. On the song he pairs with Tammi Terrell to deliver a virtuoso performance.… Continue Reading
So I was having a bit of a rough night on Tuesday. I’d been up late working on several blog posts for Gen X Chronicle, including a special 10th anniversary Copper’s Corner and a post about trading cannabis stocks.
It was now 3:19 am, and I just wanted to chill out.… Continue Reading
Today was an interesting day. I had to sell all my Aurora Cannabis Inc. stock today, which is kind of a bummer. That was the one real financial bright spot in my life over the past year. I bought it at roughly $2/share, and sold it for $8.67/share.… Continue Reading
It’s 3:30 a.m. on Friday night, and I’m doing a bit of a Billy Joel marathon on my Google Home. I grew up in the seventies and eighties, and Billy Joel was one of the top dogs. I’ve always loved his music,.… Continue Reading
It’s about 9 p.m. on Thursday night, and I’m listen to The Cranberries on my Google Home. The late great Dolores O’Riordan is belting out her powerful and at times emotionally wrought lyrics.
The first song that comes on is 21, a classic from their megapopular No Need to Argue album.… Continue Reading
Today I visited Schaller and Weber, on 86th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood on the Upper East Side. It’s an old-time German Delicatessen that was founded in 1937. This is the kind of Central & Eastern European food market that used to dominate Yorkville, before gentrification set in and every other lot became a bank or a Starbucks.… Continue Reading
It’s 5:48 a.m., 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
It’s 11:16 p.m. on Monday night, and I’m watching the Winter Olympics. Men’s halfpipe qualifying round. Ayumu Hirano, all five foot three and 110 pounds of him, who is from Japan, just made an incredibly dope run down the snowboard halfpipe.… Continue Reading