talkin‘ bout my generation

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When I was a little boy I remember icy milk arriving at my GrandDad’s farm through a blanketing, winter snowstorm in the mid-1950’s. 

We were a large, family gathering snowed in at the house, and a dairy farmer brought milk over with his horse and sleigh. I still have a 4-quart can I saved from my childhood.

So you can imagine with roots like that...milk in cans in a horse drawn sleigh, growing up hippy, Manhattan in the '80's, our first computer, now smartphone’s and video games and everyone’s noses buried in Facebook...that’s an arc of technology not many generations are afforded. 

All the best and Happy New Year to the baby boomers!

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imagine the consequences

may your days be worries unseen

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and may all your Christmases be green.

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Have a great weekend!

why we love the arts

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asked Santa for a wirestripper for Christmas.

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http://clocktowertenants.com/2012/12/its-in-air.html

these are a few of my favorite things

December 25, 1962 

http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2011/12/15

the mourning after

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"What I don't like about office Christmas parties

 is looking for a job the next day."

 Phyllis Diller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Diller

happy holidays

from our IT department :-)

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for now

We made the top 25 last year, just barely, coming in at 23.

Two below Greece.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/debt-crisis-live/9649283/Debt-crisis-as-it-happened-November-2-2012.html

We’re still ahead of Argentina.

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it’s beginning to look a lot like

Christmas

everywhere you go.

the elves are getting excited

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if you don't talk to your cat about catnip, who will?

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in the eyes of a child

"Christmas in Harlem

right after autumn falls"

"soaking it all in

then we go hit the mall 

(I'm like Bad Santa, though)"

"even though we ain't balling 

(You might have to sit on my lap)"

"feels like we bought it all (Ho, ho, ho)

the mistletoe's right here"

"Come give a kiss to Santa Claus."

“Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.”

William Saroyan 

(1908 – 1981) Armenian-American dramatist 

here’s an interesting chart from the Washington Post

privately owned guns in the world.

kids get off my lawn

filmofilia.com/ 

I was 9 years old when “Father Knows Best” completed its first run on a black and white tv.

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That’s about the same age a boy today meets “Call of Duty,” a wartime video game developed since 2003.

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“Ozzie and Harriet” were at about that same time, and they launched Ricky Nelson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Nelson

The latest version of Call of Duty rolled out in mid November. These games have grossed billions of dollars.

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“Leave it To Beaver” immortalized June’s line, 

“Ward? I’m worried about the Beaver” in 1960.

Today we rack killcount and keep score.

I’m a gun control guy and I hope regulation appears, and we will balance the Second Amendment.

But until we mature our American culture to not glorify and obsess about killing, this is going to be part of the nightly news. With these cultural values we can ban every gun.

They'll just start making bombs instead.

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and know they love you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_mead

If there’s a God, I hope God is in Newtown this morning.

You who are on the road

Must have a code that you can live by

And so become yourself

Because the past is just a good-bye.

Teach your children well

Their father's hell

Did slowly go by

And feed them on your dreams

The one they pick’s

The one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why

If they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh

And know they love you.

And you, of tender years

Can't know the fears

That your elders grew by.

And so please help them with your youth

They seek the truth

Before they can die.

Teach your parents well

Their children's hell

Will slowly go by

And feed them on your dreams

The one they pick’s

The one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why

If they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh

And know they love you.

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#1 on the Billboard Albums chart in 1974