Holiday Traditions

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Holding our annual Get Off My Lawn Fest a day early this year. It's a way better tradition than the Annual Holiday Plumbing Disaster. Though I must admit, sitting around for hours listening to the parents and their old-time friends talking about how all their favorite musicians are old now and how Things Ain't As Good Now As They Was Then* is a bit tough when one is still a young person. It's not easy being the one trying to broker generational peace, especially when any mention of something you found online immediately swerves the subject to What Good Is That Confangled Intertruck Anyway? Limits the conversation a bit.


*Movies, for example, are all loud and noisy and hard to follow these days, and who can keep track of which one is the bad guy?! And don't get me started on the computervideogames the kids play. They're just bloops and colors!

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[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

*Movies, for example, are all loud and noisy and hard to follow these days,... and I'd add "dark, use the damn projector bulbs at their rated wattage, I want to see the movie, and not have it looking like it was dipped in mud."

[acrossthelake.livejournal.com]

I, meanwhile, was surrounded by three kids under the age of 5 for the whole week and occasionally got worrying moments of, "I still remember when I was a kid and had that much energy. Am I old? At age 24?"

Well, never mind the lot of them. I'll be over in the Our Generation corner with the other aimless 20-somethings and our Intertrucks. Feel free to join us. We have chocolate.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Eh, if they were all that young, you were old at age twelve.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I'm only 30, and I'm already regularly ranting about how I can't follow what's happening in Movies these days, and can't we get some more directors who know how to slow down for a minute and even the guys in the Black Metal Bands I listen to are approaching 40 and slowing down, while the guys in Slayer are all approaching 50.

Get off my lawn! ;)

[shadesofmauve]

I just read a very get-off-my-lawn article about the creep of twitter #hashtags. It's so amusing to watch otherwise open-minded people suddenly have an In My Day moment when it comes to linguistics.

Of course, I immediately started using #DamnPrescriptiveGrammar everywhere I could... :P