Photo by Tony Klimas, Copyright 2004
As someone who proudly made it into the slacker generation by 2 months and 16 days, I'm here to tell you we're turning 40. What got me thinking about this was my drive home from the airport tonight. I hopped in my car and briefly considered firing up the XM radio or an MP3 filled CD (or perhaps my Creative Nomad music player hooked to the RCA jacks I installed when I did the sound system). Instead I decided to see what kind of slop good old Clear Channel was putting out tonight on that awful dying thing called FM radio. Have to hand it to those corporate wizards in programming. Before I got to the 80s station, I switched across U2, Van Halen, REM and Journey all playing at the same time. I thought - hey - they're playing this for me - to appeal to my laid back, slackerish demographic. We've arrived, damn it! And we're turning 40! We may even have some disposal income (not really if you factor in lame real estate appreciation and student loans that are almost paid off...). But hey - it's good to know we're moving on - some day TV Land will be a big hit in the nursing home. As for turning 40 - we're probably having mid life crisis type events as well - exhibit A - the photo above - my weekend car....(but at least two 20 year olds are not part of that picture)
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