I was just sitting around this morning with a free hour before my two kids wake up. Bored, I tried to find some interesting websites. Found myself hitting Xbox360, MTV, Ecko, FUBU. It reminded me of a time a few years ago when I let slip kids these days and their nintendo. Nin-what-do?!?!

Yeah, I'm staring down the big 3-0 with mad quickness and no fear, yeah my two boys are 2yrs and 2mos, but I watch what I think is the latest shit on TV. I got a friend who still parties and smokes the herb. I'm just wondering how different I am from whatever they label today's generation? I remember in school the teachers would scare the slackers by saying mine would be the first generation where kids were not better off than their parents. Now that I've been takin papers in the real world for going on 9 years, I realized how long it takes to get any serious stash and that my kids are going to be in the same boat.

So what is that sets me apart from my "babyboomer" parents? Video games, MTV, techno gadgets, presidents who are national and international buffoons (ok, maybe that's a bad example -think nixon/carter-), TV on most of the day. These are all true, and I am better off than my parents because they bought in to that "We-can-make-the-world-a-better-place-through-love-and-community" sixties crap. Now they still own nothing, live in rented housing, and can't afford gas.

So what will set my boys' generation apart from me? Let's see: video games on Xbox360/PS3 vs my atari/nintendo, MTV:they still play beevis & buthead, though ren&stimpy's long gone, techno-gadgets: mp3 players to my walkmans, TV: 60" HDTV flat panels to my 30" tube. Other than newer techno-gadgets, not much has changed. Tupac is still idolized, though fadng very fast.

Anyway. Maybe I have no clue and someone younger than me reading this can tell me where I'm wrong, but it seems like the last generation would be called babyboomers, forgetting anyone born in the 50-60's, and this generation is anyone born in the late-70's through 00's.