Generation Bubble

Holiday Hiatus

Today begins Generation Bubble’s holiday hiatus. We’d like to thank our readers for helping GenBub grow by leaps and bounds in the months since its inception.

Look for posts to resume after shortly after January 1, when we’ll return refreshed and ready for what promises to be a tumultuous 2010.

Until such time, we invite newer readers to peruse our back pages. They offer, we think, a unique chronicle of the events of the past nine months or so.

And we encourage you to consider following Generation Bubble’s link feed on Twitter (account name “GenBub_tweed“) and joining us on Facebook (group name “Generation Bubble“).

Special Announcement: Double the Bubble with Marginal Utility's Rob Horning

Rob Horning has agreed to a guest-posting stint with Generation Bubble. Rob’s weblog, Marginal Utility, began running at Pop Matters in August 2005 and has since become one a site mainstay…

Bubble Living: McMansion Expansion Down Under

The Canberra Times reported last week that “Canberra can lay claim to being the new McMansion capital of Australia.” The capital now boasts the biggest new homes in the nation. In all shades of teal, puce and beige, the jumble of  McMansions that cluster along Canberra’s outskirts introduce an element of cheap chaos into what [...]

The Two Towers

A mind is a terrible thing to irradiate. Fears of sizzling young brains have gripped one Staten Island, NY community. This article from the Staten Island Advance reports that [p]assionate parents gathered last night in Our Lady Star of the Sea School, Huguenot, to discuss concerns and vent frustrations about cell phone antennas on the [...]

The Confidence-Man

I just chased a door-to-door, magazine-subs-for-charity huckster from my threshold. He somehow circumvented the tenant-controlled front door, knocking instead at my kitchen door, which leads to the fire escape! I remember my neighborhood in Tucson being lousy with such garrulous, darting fiends. They’d flagrantly ignore “No Solicitors” signs to pay me calls that, no matter [...]