The Latest Generation

I'm trying to replace the Lucas Portrait file with one that isn't twice as long as it needs to be. That may result in this episode getting re-published, in which case, enjoy an episode that will be redone in a month again, but at least will be four minutes long instead of eight.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Been on my mind fo

Going deep into the archives for a not-previously-reduxed discussion with my wife on a matter important to any generation: What's funny, what's not, and why? We are Gen X-ers who think Quick Change is brilliant and funny. My mother-in-law thought Where's Poppa was brilliant and funny. You'll have to make up your own mind on which of us was right. As mentioned, it's one of the fi

Prompt the First: The Crazy World of 2nd Turning Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins - doesn't mention the shaved eyebrow thing, SNL: Devo, B-52s, David Bowie It wasn’t uncontrollable urge; it was Satisfaction and then Jocko Homo And it was between their first two albums - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_Now_for_the_Future came out in 1979 And during Jocko

Prompt the First - Guadalcanal But also: The Pacific (2010)- last time did Band of Brothers, Taylor Swift — 1:12:50 in Long Pond sessions - association between Guadalcanal fighting and pandemic trauma. — Epiphany Available on Disney+ And it was in fact released IN 2020 - before vaccines were available, while effectively lockdown was still ongoing. And also - just barely re

This is a bit of stretch for relevance but: It's Tax Day, and sometimes that's too busy a day to get anything else done. While composing Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copland thought Tax Day was the most common sort of day for modern man, and that it would make a good day for a premiere. Which this isn't, but it's a decent look at the music that opens this podcast. -----------

Prompt the First - Band of Brothers September 9, 2001 - Sunday ~ nearly 23 years ago ~ 55-60 years after the events portrayed WIth regards to people being comforted by the familiarity of battle movies, I was particularly thinking of the use of the Awahanee Hotel in Yosemite Valley as a treatment for shellshock, as PTSD was called at the time. It didn't work very well, because it

The Ten Commandments was on, which is set completely in the 19th dynasty, but because it's soon after the 18th it seems relevant enough. There are a number of candidates for the Pharoah of the Exodus. As the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments shows, one is Ramses II, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. The 18th Dynasty has at least one or two as well, and that Akhenaten attempted t

Thoughts on the film Eternals, a Marvel Cinematic Universe film from 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9032400/ - on IMDB Here's the Bluesky thread with my initial thoughts, most of which are in here. https://bsky.app/profile/generationalize.bsky.social/post/3koba7n5kd526 As one of the Story Aside episodes, it begins from the Sto

Prompt the First: Four years later. In the time of Covid. It’s four years since COVID lockdowns. That seems significant to me, in a way that the four year anniversary of 9/11 didn’t. But the 1 year anniversary of 9/11 was important, and 4 years wasn’t. What’s the difference? Prompt the Second: Saving the MCU with Generational Analysis A previous look at one small part

Re-upping this one, because I've let it go for a bit and coming back to it now. Consider this one a reminder of things to come. ============================================ The atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945 - also known as Trinity - occurred only 3 weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima and only 7 weeks before the end of the war. Looking at it as the midpoint of that summer, it