Two things and a meme (because finally flist did a meme I could steal!)

[shadowkat]

1. I think my flist and others on lj managed to shut down Friendblab. Yay team?? I tried to check to see if I was on it - and couldn't get into the site. Checked google and the only thing I found was listing for Darth Masq, Lord of the Sith...and my lj user name along with all the other ATPO people. But that was on google. Google also alerted me to the fact that Twitter has been citing my posts under an account called Home School (which I've never heard of). Okay. The internet continues to weird me out. You post something and it just jumps around on its own without you lifting a finger. Welcome, me dears, to the information age.

Speaking of? I realized recently that the generation gap between Generation X and Generation Y is as wide as the one between the Baby Boomers and the Greatest Generation.
It's similar to the industrial revolution...technology has created a huge generation gap.

My generation is actually pretty close to the Baby Boomers and Silent Generation very little gap. But the one just below me...is miles away.

Why? We remember a time without computers, cell phones, VCR's/DVD's, or color tv. We remember when you saw movies and had to wait years for them to appear, and cut to ribbons, I might add on TV. When there were no video games. And there was just four channels. That skype was well just on Star Trek. And cell phones - Star Trek. I learned to type on a typewriter and was thrilled with an electronic one. I didn't get my own computer until law school and it was a tiny MAC with a tiny screen. Followed by one of those huge IBM's.

But the generation beneath me and the one beneath them can barely remember a time without smartphones or computers. Or without twitter or facebook. It's hard not to see them as spoiled. And that was how my grandparents saw my parents and my generation. I finally see the world through my Granny's eyes.

2. M: You know there's nothing to 50 Shades right? That it is like a...
Me: Yes. It's a twinkie...although frankly twinkies always made me ill. More like a hostess cup-cake - although I hated those too. Bro loved them though.
M: Well duh, you were gluten-intolerant, we just didn't know it back then.
Me: Yes, but apparently not allergic or intolerant to twinkie or hostess-cupcake books, tv shows and movies.

3. So here is a list of my 10 favourite non-sexual/platonic relationships on tv.
(ganked from frenchani)

First a confession, I prefer platonic relationships on TV. Because TV sucks at romantic relationships. The characters are constantly broken up. And there's always angst, because it is apparently boring to have a happy romantic relationship or one that stays married.

This is in no particular order - because that would require decision making and ratings and I suck at that. That's work. [And yes, I realize that a few of these, people consider sexual, I consider them platonic. Mileage varies, folks.]

1. Cristina/Meredith - Grey's Anatomy (Their friendship is actually the reason I still watch this series. The actresses have brilliant chemistry, and their friendship just keeps building and changing. One of the most complicated female relationships shown on tv.)
2. Spike/Angel - Angel and BTVS (The reason I love S5 Angel and S2 Buffy...the chemistry between the actors sizzled. Two guys in love with the same gal, but even more so...reluctantly devoted to each other. Who had spent more time with each other over the years than anyone else. And were like mirror images...complete opposites yet alike. I admittedly enjoyed reading their sexual exploits with each in fanfiction...but on-screen I saw them as mainly platonic.)
3. Walt/Jesse - Breaking Bad (See Spike/Angel, very similar in some respects. Except no woman involved. Protegee/Teacher and vice versa. Their relationship continues to expand.)
4. D'ARgo/Aeryn Sun - Farscape (unexpected treat)
5. McNaulty/Lester on The Wire (Lester is the McNaulty of yesteryear...when they team up, watch out.)
6. Alicia/Kalinda - The Good Wife (Kalinda teaches Alicia humility and makes her face her own hypocrisy and question her own ethics and morals..)
7. Pam/Tara - True Blood (the best surprise. This team up is better than any vampire team up ever. The snarky human who hates vamps, and her snarky maker who hates humans...and both have issues with men. The Meredith/Cristina of the Supernatural world)
8. John Locke/Ben - Lost (which is similar to Walt/Jesse in oh so many ways.)
9. Merlin/Arthur - Merlin (one of the main reasons I watch Merlin)
10. Sam/Dean Winchester - Supernatural (the only reason I watched Supernatural...well that and Castiel and Sebastian Roche's Gabriel. People actually ship this as non-platonic which is sort of..well not sort of, definitely, incestuous, but hey VC Andrews and George RR Martin did it (admittedly with brother/sister), why can't fans?)

Honorable mention : Stefan/Damon - Vamp Diaries, Darla/Drusilla - Angel, Wes/Angel - Angel,
Cordy/Angel - Angel (I didn't like their romance, I preferred their friendship), Toby and Josh - The West Wing, Rachel Berry/Kurt on Glee, Bayliss and Pemberton - Homicide Life on the Streets, Sam and Fraiser/ Cheers, Fraiser/Niles - Fraiser, Diane/Alicia on the Good Wife ...and Lex/Clark on Smallville.

Sigh...I watch tv the same I read books and movies and eat...I like hershey's and the gourmet stuff.

Comments

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

Wiki tells me that Generation Y includes everything from the 1980's to the early 2000's, but (speaking as an early Gen Y member), if we're talking about cultural generations it seems like that group should really be split into two. There's a big gap even between people born in the 80's and early 90's and those born in the late 90's and early 2000's.

I have two younger sisters who fit into the latter group-- when I was growing up, we had a huge VCR that cost thousands of dollars and a monster TV still encased in a wooden cabinet with a little dial and no remote. My dad had a big record collection and an Atari, and I remember CDs as a new and rather amazing thing. By the time my sisters were around, it was DVDs and MP3s and texting to each other instead of using AIM. Technology just moves so fast that ten years creates an entirely different culture. Which is kind of a cool thing in its own right, but causes problems because our society can't really keep up.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

So I take it mean I don't need to check FriendBlab for *my* LJ. I tried earlier today after KdS's post and had the same no-connect experience as you. Didn't think to google "friendsblab masqthephlsphr", though.

"Generation Jones"

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I identify with neither the Baby Boomers or Generation X. I did a post on this a while back:

http://masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com/641945.html

[sophist.livejournal.com]

The same is true for the Boomers. Technically, they run from 1946-64. But trust me, there's a HUGE difference between being born in 1950 and being born in 1960.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Should probably be noted that the generation time periods are set by EVIL marketing professionals who pigeon hole people for a living.

I should have just said anyone born prior to 1985. I think that's where the big technology gender gap exists. The internet didn't really come about until the late 1990s, and people born between 1985-2000...probably grew up with cell phones, CDS, internet access, DVDS, ipods/MP3 players, etc. While those born before 1985 remember a time without these things, well everything but CD's and computers at any rate.

Re: "Generation Jones"

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as I stated to the people above...I should have just said anyone born prior to 1985 or maybe 1980...since people born in 1985 would have had cable and CDs.

Talking mainly about the technology gap and info age.