I haven't stayed up to date on Reactivities - just seeing that it's nearly a year since my last one - so going to put this up again just to prime the pump, remind myself of The Plan.

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Our first tale from interesting times could've happened in other times - there's nothing specific about that time it happened, except that everyone there was Generation X, and it was just at a point where the mystic allure of the Awakening was giving way to the freedom of the Unraveling.

But don't want to spoil it for you, so just listen.

Not referenced or mentioned or anything here, but there's a character description in Roger Zelazny's This Immortal that includes a situation very like this one.

Okay, now that I've re-read the synopsis on Wikipedia, it has SEVERAL situations very like this one, but I'm specifically thinking of the title character remembering one time where a poet was reading his poetry....It's a classic story, check it out.

(It's not at all clear what Turning that story happens in, and the poetry reading is some time in its past, but I can imagine that these sorts of events are very Third Turning.)

A Kind of Magic is an unofficial soundtrack for Highlander. Most of the songs from the movie are on there, and most of the songs on the album are from the movie. (But the album does not include Theme from New York, New York.....)

One might note that that this happened the day after the Berlin Wall fell. Maybe I'll do another episode about that...

Here's a video of the full show. This recording is from a few weeks later in the year. (No magic, this time.) We just called it The Queen Show. Yes, it also has Bohemian Rhapsody.

Five years at my job, five years since I was trying to find work in the middle of a pandemic.

This is short and simple but the advice it has isn't half bad, still.

Notes from the original:

Eventually you have to make it through to the end.

This is, as it says, the last Gen X Job Seeker episode, because....the search is over.

Going to blame having a job again for not having more to say this month, but working on a more consistent release schedule soon.

https://www.realdefen.se

https://www.iolo.com

Good luck to everyone out there still seeking.

The continuation is from the previous episode, The Sebastapol Sketches, about the 1850s Crimean War and the Tolstoy stories set there. Because so much has been happening, it's a ramblling look at a lot of possibilities and how the generational model might make sense of it all.

As such, there's not a lot here for further investigation besides the previous podcast episodes and a few tweets of mine....

On the other hand, it is an an unusually long episode, so be ready for that.

Previously these were in the episode notes, but they aren't linking now. I'll try to delete them if I can't figure out why...

https://x.com/generationalize/status/1496006671851986948?s=20

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1496139226659840018?s=21

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1496016572112158724?s=21

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1496006671851986948?s=21

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1495223269225484290?s=21

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1492255773237284864?s=21