I have so many, but the one that really sticks out is petitioning my friends to rename their band the Prozac Babies.
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The story gets better. The original name of the band was.... As If
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Here's another: On summer break, I packed my suitcase with six Burroughs novels for my trip to Alaska to work in a fish canning factory owned by a Japanese conglomerate.
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OH AND, I wrote about the experience in the ALT-WEEKLY.https://medium.com/@rexsorgatz/alaskan-canneries-alt-weeklies-revisited-55e22307435e …
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One for those in the back of the room... I got my copy of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" signed by Jameson.
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AND.... For a winter I lived in the crawl space above my alt-weekly's photolab.
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Or.... Coded my own CMS so I could start a link blog.
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And finally... Got through college with three degrees and two minors and zero college debt.
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Okay, one more: I wrote a review of the Singles soundtrack for the student newspaper that was entirely about having a crush on the girl behind the counter at the record store.
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And: Went to same record store at midnight to buy Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 on CD on release day
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THANKS to everyone who responded to this massive thread and SORRY for treating you like data but... In my newsletter this week, I crunched some numbers and came up a definitive list of the MOST GENX STUFF. https://mailchi.mp/0a8ab0c8c5ff/recs-issue-013 …
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Here's the chart. Sorry if you disagree. The data cannot lie.pic.twitter.com/NmHG7OvFfc
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I also pulled in some of my favorite responses, including those from:
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And defying the official GenX rule of "No Self-Promotion," here's signup page for newsletter, which contains weekly recommendations from pop culture / media / tech / etc. http://fimoculous.com/recs/
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