{"id":1158,"date":"2008-01-17T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/pop-culture-anniversaries-for-generation-x\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T13:17:03","slug":"pop-culture-anniversaries-for-generation-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/pop-culture-anniversaries-for-generation-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop culture anniversaries for Generation X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2008 happens to be the 20th anniversary of the year I graduated from high school and moved from my parents&#8217; home in London, Ontario to Ottawa.  Twenty years since high school &#8211; ouch!  <\/p>\n<p>There was a fun article in the <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em> last week that I would link to here if only I could find it online using their inefficient and rather annoying search engine.  It listed a series of pop culture anniversaries that will be celebrated this year, many of which I&#8217;m sure will make you scratch your head and say, as I did, &#8220;Holy crap I&#8217;m getting old!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For example, did you know it&#8217;s already been ten years since:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the FINAL episode of <em>Seinfeld <\/em>(it seems more like it should be ten years since the debut!)<\/li>\n<li>\nthe debut of <em>Dawson&#8217;s Creek<\/em> (I used to love watching this before we headed out to the Clocktower for pints on a Friday night.)<\/li>\n<li>the debut of <em>Sex in the City<\/em>, of which I have only ever watched maybe two episodes.<\/li>\n<li>the release of Brittney Spears&#8217; first single, <em>Baby One More Time.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to my graduation from high school and life-alterning move across the province, it&#8217;s been twenty years since:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nthe debut of <em>Roseanne.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>the release of Bobby McFerrin&#8217;s <em>Don&#8217;t Worry Be Happy<\/em> AND Public Enemy&#8217;s <em>It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back<\/em> (somehow, they&#8217;re better juxtaposed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, not from the article and not a nice round number, but because I got it on DVD for Christmas to replace my almost worn through copy, can you believe it&#8217;s been 21 years since the 1987 release of <em>The Princess Bride<\/em>?  I just watched it again last weekend, and it&#8217;s as good as it&#8217;s ever been.  I even considered Westley as a middle name for the baby!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 25 years since I started high school in 1983, in addition to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the finale of <em>M*A*S*H <\/em>(always a favourite show in my house when I was growing up.  I have fond memories of watching <em>M*A*S*H<\/em> and <em>Barney Miller<\/em> with my dad, and imagine they had a lot to do with the strong cheeky and ironic streak in my own sense of humour.)<\/li>\n<li>the theatrical release of <em>Flashdance <\/em>and <em>Risky Business<\/em>.  C&#8217;mon, admit it, you either owned a torn sweatshirt that sat canted off one shoulder, or a pair of RayBans.<\/li>\n<li>\nwe were stunned by the revelation that Darth Vader was Luke&#8217;s father in <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.  (This wasn&#8217;t in the article either, but significant enough in my own childhood to make its exclusion from the article seem like a heinous oversight.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 30 years since:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nthe release of <em>Grease <\/em>and <em>National Lampoon&#8217;s Animal House<\/em> (I didn&#8217;t actually see <em>Grease <\/em>until VCRs appeared on the scene in the early 80s, but I had a photonovel that I wore to dog-ears, and my next door neighbour had the soundtrack.  We spent endless summer vacation days alternating between playing <em>Grease <\/em>and the Partridge Family that summer of 1978!)<\/li>\n<li>the debut of <em>Dallas <\/em>and &#8211; the one that inspired me to blog this article in the first place &#8211; the debut of <em>Mork and Mindy<\/em>.  30 years of Robin Williams&#8230; I&#8217;ll let you make your own editorial observations on that one!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Holy crap, I&#8217;m old.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">***<\/div>\n<p>Just a little reminder that if you haven&#8217;t already done so, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/p\/227376\/\">vote for me<\/a> (and a whole raft of deserving others!) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/p\/227376\/\">Best Family Blog<\/a> category of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/vote\/round-1\/\">Canadian Blog Awards<\/a>.  You can only vote once per round, and voting for round one ends January 21. C&#8217;mon, you want to keep me in this so I can continue to pester you to vote for me in the finals, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2008 happens to be the 20th anniversary of the year I graduated from high school and moved from my parents&#8217; home in London, Ontario to Ottawa. Twenty years since high school &#8211; ouch! There was a fun article in the Ottawa Citizen last week that I would link to here if only I could find &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/pop-culture-anniversaries-for-generation-x\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pop culture anniversaries for Generation X&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}