X+BOX=Y? Thanks to the sexual revolution, thanks to the suffragette's, thanks to Mary Tyler Moore and her cohort Rhoda, thanks to Gloria Stienem and the womans movement. I thank them for giving me my independance, my sexual freedom and my impending insanity...thanks! As a blossoming Gen X'er growing up in the 70's, society was still getting used to women being on the dreaded Pill and exploring their sexual options and families were getting used to the phrase "extended families". Divorce was rampant and women had to work to support themselve and the brood. Veitnam was still an angry issue. The music changed, the Beatles broke up and Areosmith and Zepplin was our background music. The Saturday morning cartoons were no longer just the futher adventure of Gumby & Pokey, but a technicolor array of freakiness: Kaptain Kool & the Kongs, Siegmund the Sea Monster, the Bugaloo's, H.R. Puffinstuff and his nemesis Witchy Poo, these show's helped in shaping our personalities. So by the time the Gen X'ers hit their adulthood all the reform of the 70's left us with Punk music battling the New Wavers, we got MTV (they played music videos back then), the freaky Saturday morning cartoons fell way to warm happy Smurfs, Strawberry Shortcake, the Transformers. The carefree sex of the prior decade brought us the Aids Epidemic, the rubber became our choice for contraception, so much for the pill..pppft. Madonna shoved her sexuality in our faces and we loved it. Our hair got higher and higher, the music louder and louder. The "MAN" surfaced and found a way to make big money and get a charity tax write off with Music festivals, Live Aid and Farm Aid where a staple on the concert scene...basically pay for a ticket to see Led Zepplin back together again then give a donation to feed the damn world! We lived large in the 80's and partied and consumed "things" that were no longer of a organic nature. The hangover of the 80's led us to the 90's and another music revolution, Nirvana bloomed and chick's were no longer a novelty to the music industry. We got a taste of WAR courtesy of George Bush and we got to watch it live on T.V.! That gave way to our first democratic President in 12 years. Bill Clinton, god bless the man......LOL......technology grew, the stock market soared, cigar sales were up and the Power Rangers were a Saturday morning staple. Cobain killed himself and Nirvana was his, forever. Trench Coat wearing loners shot up their schools and the students. We flailed about made money and Lollapalooza'd ourselves, everyone was a rock star and the drugs got more un-organic, we raved, and we all got computers and cyber literate. Then the sky fell, more children dying at the hands of children, the millenium was coming to an end, our computers and all of life was to stand still. Well, that didn't happen, but we do love the drama, whatever is newsworthy, yanno. It's 2002, we survived the reglious zealots screaming Armeggedon, but we lost our sense of security when Al Queda took down the World Center September 11th, 2001. Cobains private journal have been published and we can all share in his personal hell, thanks Courtney you crazy soul sucking bitch! xoxo! The likelihood of war looms on the horizon thanks to the spawn of Bush, Dubya...got love the Cowboy, the fucker is crazy in my opinon, but all the same entertaining. I'm sure watching the new war live on the telly will be a ratings winner, that is if we turn off the Playstations, Xbox's, Nintendo's, and DVD's long enough to watch the prime time war. The market has gone tit's up and the economy is beyond sluggish, hell it's past sluggish and coming up on flat lining soon. The new 'Punk' music plays on the radio and a white rapper (made by a black man) is ruling the charts. We are all wired now, pagers and cell phone are standard, and the saturday morning cartoons are all politically correct and educational. Hours are spent surfing the net and that ever ellusive thing called Sex can now found easily in cyber forums ( that solves the whole rubber issue not to mention the commitment issue!) Time flies while your body and mind is trying to grasp all the changes, the future is now and the background music is diverse. All this change that can't be stopped all this wanting to improve all aspects of society...it's too much at times but thanks still goes out to the people who shaped what we have become, I think, hmmm, basically what I'm trying to say here is that I'm horny.