2/22/2004

Woke up, put on clothes, didn't go to work.

It looks like people who ordered Starting from Square Two from Amazon will get it in a day or two.

I also see that the book Generation SLUT just came out. In December, I wrote a guest column for MobyLives about young Gen Y writers and why they don't have a literary spokesman like Gen X did. Mostly we see Britney and Justin as their leaders. Marty Beckerman had written this book, Generation SLUT, showing that today's teens are jaded and rush into sex without having meaningful relationships. I think the book should have shown a bit more of the other side, as I'm sure there are nerdier teens out there we don't hear from as much. But it also seems that Beckerman was the only one having the courage to bring the jaded-ness of today's teens to light in order to get us to talk about it. More Gen Y writers should be putting the issues of their generation out in the open and commenting on them. Gen Y grew up in relatively peaceful and prosperous times and then saw it all topple. Their big news events were Columbine and Monica. What's the effect of this? I'd like to hear more from them.

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