Off topic. I’m shamelessly posting this just cuz its so cool.
So I went to a free screening of Indy last night, and while I usually have no problem embracing the suspension of disbelief required to enjoy your typical Spielberg flick, I was really annoyed by the last scene: Indy’s hat dramatically blows to the feet of Mutt (Side o’ Beef), and just as Mutt is about to pick up the hat, Indy says, “Not so fast,” and grabs it back. While I understand that this sets up Ford’s appearance in the franchise’s next offering, I just couldn’t get over the boomer-centric subtext. Harrison Ford, the 66-year-old actor, still can’t entirely pass the baton to Side o’ Beef.
[BTW, you can buy your own Indiana hat for a mere $499.99 here.]
The most ridiculous babyboomer commercial to-date. You know the one. With Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” playing in the background. With the product named after a Grateful Dead song.
See it here.
According to an oldish article by Joshua Glenn in the Braniac section of The Boston Globe online, those of us born in 1973 are PCers, not GenXers, which makes more sense to me b/c I associate my childhood more with playing Oregon Trail on an Apple II than worrying about nuclear war (as Douglas Coupland would have me believe). And I’m def too old for Gilmore Girls, OC, and Facebook (hallmarks of the group after me: the Net Generation).
I don’t agree with everything Joshua Glenn thinks of my generation (we were too old for 90210), but I definitely think he’s on the right track in picking apart all of this misapplied, media-hijacked generation nomenclature
