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You are old 2020
Aug. 31st, 2020 05:40 pmThis year's freshmen were born in 2002, which is clearly impossible.
* They have never lived in a US that wasn't at war with Afghanistan, which the president has almost blanket permission to conduct as he sees fit.
* They have never lived in a world with Layne Staley, and it shows
* They're younger than No Child Left Behind
* They're younger than the Beloit Mindset list, which, lol
* AND Law & Order: SVU
* They don't remember the Axis of Countries That Sometimes Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick and wouldn't believe you if you told them
* They don't know why the save icon looks like that
* They don't even think about the cameras everywhere on campus; they grew up under the Patriot Act
YOU are so old there are kids in med school who could claim to be the reincarnation of Tupac
* They have never lived in a US that wasn't at war with Afghanistan, which the president has almost blanket permission to conduct as he sees fit.
* They have never lived in a world with Layne Staley, and it shows
* They're younger than No Child Left Behind
* They're younger than the Beloit Mindset list, which, lol
* AND Law & Order: SVU
* They don't remember the Axis of Countries That Sometimes Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick and wouldn't believe you if you told them
* They don't know why the save icon looks like that
* They don't even think about the cameras everywhere on campus; they grew up under the Patriot Act
YOU are so old there are kids in med school who could claim to be the reincarnation of Tupac
You are old 2k19
Aug. 22nd, 2019 04:05 pmWelcome to another year's You Are Old update. How old are you? Some of your freshmen were born after 9/11. So just ruminate on that for a while. Drink some rum. Smoke a bowl. Cry in the bathtub.
So what else was happening in 2001 that you'll try to make jokes about and get nothing but blank faces in return?
- Enron. They will definitely not get any reference to this. They stopped knowing who Ken Lay was at least by 2013.
- Genesis launched!
- I guess there were a bunch of shark attacks? I didn't even remember that. I am a shark apologist.
- Tim McVeigh was executed. My students don't know his name. They might know the Oklahoma City Bombing. To reiterate, these are students in Oklahoma.
- The IRA dismantles its arsenal. I do remember that one. It was so frickin huge and these children don't even know what the IRA was.
- The Anthrax letters: they do not know Anthrax as a powder or as a band
- Wikipedia is created and we all lose our minds and then our professors edit the articles to be all fuckshit trying to catch us cheating
- Napster had to shut down THANKS, METALLICA
but they got better
- The iPod??? These kids are younger than ipods???
- THEY'RE FUCKING YOUNGER THAN HARRY POTTER. THEY'RE YOUNGER THAN THE FIRST HARRY POTTER MOVIE. I GIVE UP. FUCK THEM KIDS.
So what else was happening in 2001 that you'll try to make jokes about and get nothing but blank faces in return?
- Enron. They will definitely not get any reference to this. They stopped knowing who Ken Lay was at least by 2013.
- Genesis launched!
- I guess there were a bunch of shark attacks? I didn't even remember that. I am a shark apologist.
- Tim McVeigh was executed. My students don't know his name. They might know the Oklahoma City Bombing. To reiterate, these are students in Oklahoma.
- The IRA dismantles its arsenal. I do remember that one. It was so frickin huge and these children don't even know what the IRA was.
- The Anthrax letters: they do not know Anthrax as a powder or as a band
- Wikipedia is created and we all lose our minds and then our professors edit the articles to be all fuckshit trying to catch us cheating
- Napster had to shut down THANKS, METALLICA
but they got better
- The iPod??? These kids are younger than ipods???
- THEY'RE FUCKING YOUNGER THAN HARRY POTTER. THEY'RE YOUNGER THAN THE FIRST HARRY POTTER MOVIE. I GIVE UP. FUCK THEM KIDS.
Book club!
Jan. 2nd, 2019 04:24 pmIdeas for book club:
Fiction
There There Tommy Orange
Everything Here Is Beautiful Mira T. Lee
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore Kim Fu
The Friend Sigrid Nunez
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms NK Jemisin
Non-Fiction/Memoirs
Heart Berries Therese Mailhot
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
Secrets We Kept:: Three Women of Trinidad Krystal Sital
The Beekeeper Dunya Mikhail
Old In Art School Nell Irvin Painter
Fiction
There There Tommy Orange
Everything Here Is Beautiful Mira T. Lee
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore Kim Fu
The Friend Sigrid Nunez
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms NK Jemisin
Non-Fiction/Memoirs
Heart Berries Therese Mailhot
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
Secrets We Kept:: Three Women of Trinidad Krystal Sital
The Beekeeper Dunya Mikhail
Old In Art School Nell Irvin Painter
First entry!
Jul. 28th, 2011 03:58 pmI've been with LJ for over 10 years now and whatever problem they've had/are having is not enough to make me leave.
But dammit, I have puppy videos to share.
( Spike meets a new doggie )
( And then rolls around on his head )
But dammit, I have puppy videos to share.
( Spike meets a new doggie )
( And then rolls around on his head )
