The Latest Generation

A look at how the movie UHF (1989) works in the generational story model      

A look at some movies released in the summer of 1986 - ones I was able to see  About Last Night... Ruthless People Manhunter Top Gun Aliens Ferris Beuller's Day Off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_film Down and Out in Berverly Hills Some other incidentals Mediterranean Climate Iraklion Air Station , Crete Formerly the softball field there: Cretaquarium Joe Jackson, musician    

A few final thoughts on the Summer of Trinity, again.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._McVay_III Walter Griffith, the commander of USS Bullhead, who had departed the ship just before its final voyage that summer, also committed suicide, two...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 26 to September 2 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945,    This episode has daily events for the week ending Sunday, September 2, 1945.   Sunday, August 26,1945 - 41 Days After Trinity   Huaiy...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 19 to August 25 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945,    This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 25, 1945.  My initial thought was that "it wasn't a very interesting...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 12 to August 18   Sunday, August 12,1945 - 27 Days After Trinity 3 days after Nagasaki, 6 days after Hiroshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyth_Report Dr. Bine notes the unexpected arrival of the ending of the war. https://www.dearf...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 5 to August 11   This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the w...

It's not QUITE the 40th anniversary of The Lost Boys (39 years today), and just past the 40th anniversary of Highlander, but it's close enough.  And there are other reasons to redo this one today - with its thoughts on immortality, legacy, good times and fellowship - so, doing that.  "Never let a night like tonight go to waste." ==================================================== Considering whet...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 29 to August 4 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945.This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 4, 1945. Sunday, July 29,1945 - 13 Days After Trinity   https://usnhistory.n...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 22 to July 28, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 15 to July 21, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 8 to July 14, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the w...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective.   A daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday July 7th, 1945. Sunday, July 1...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. June 24 to June 30, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 30th, 1945.   Sunday, June 24,1945 - 22 Days Before Trinity https://stanislavs.org/victory-parade-in-moscow-on-june-24-1945/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. June 17 to June 23, 1945   This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 23, 1945. Sunday, June 17,1945 - 29 Days Before Trinity It's the 78th day of the Battle of Okinawa. https://archive.org/details/FirstBoxingMatchesOnOkinaw...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. June 10 to June 16, 1945   This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 16, 1945.   Sunday, June 10,1945 - 36 Days Before Trinity It's the 71st day of the Battle of Okinawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_William_D._Porter_(...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. Summer of Trinity is a daily look at the summer of 1945, when the Second World War ended.  June 3, 1945 . Sunday.   It is the 64th day of the Battle of Okinawa. June 4, 1945. Monday. It is the 65th day of the Battle of Okinawa. Churchill's Ge...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. A look at each day between Memorial Day and Labor Day, 1945 - the six weeks on either side of the Trinity test on July 16.  (For future weeks, we'll have an entry for each day, but we already did May 1945 in the previous episode.) May 30, 194...

A introduction to the state of the world in May 1945, as part of a re-run of Summer of Trinity. FDR is dead. Truman is President, only three months after he became vice-president. The Battle of Okinawa is ongoing - it had started on April 1st. USS Indianapolis is in San Francisco for repairs from a kamikaze attack in the waters around Okinawa, just before the invasion began. The USSR has just ende...

Summer of Trinity is a look at the summer of 1945, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Halfway between those dates, on July 16, was the Trinity atomic weapon test - but a lot was happening all around the world, during the 6 weeks before and after Trinity.  That's what this series will be about.

This is just for fun, with no real generational connection except that both Abraham Lincoln and George Lucas are from Prophet generations. (Boom for Lucas, Transcendental for Lincoln.) And, as such, it's not surprising that a similar arrangement works for both of them.  If you like Star Wars and Aaron Copland, you may enjoy it. Fun fact: George Lucas' birthday is May 14, 1944, which was the two-ye...

14 09 27 -- The Battle of Flowers parade was my second parade ever. It was April 27, 1979, in San Antonio, Texas, part of "Fiesta," an annual series of events in San Antonio.  I was there with my high school band, on a trip we'd been looking forward to all year. https://battleofflowers.org/events/   The numbering convention is an adaptation of the method used in  Defending Your Life . In the movie...

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. ======================================================== 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 Ge...

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 m...

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....