Hedge36Dec 5, 2022
Patch Zircher
When you're 20, the world seems like it's in stasis; R.E.M. and the Talking Heads will put out another record, Anne McCaffrey will write another book about dragons, Ally Sheedy and Lea Thompson are 24 years old forever, and then one day it isn't in stasis. All that stuff is a long time ago. Another generations pop culture detritus, maybe two generations ago-- and instead of stasis everything is moving pretty fast.
I don't know what I'm saying here.
It's late.
Dec 5, 2022 at 5:08amWeb
Show threadErik Jay WeberDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher my daughter stumbled upon a long clip of Cindy Crawford interviewing a metric ton of musicians and actors on an old House of Style episode today. I watched a few minutes then realized it was literally from thirty years ago, yet how everyone appeared in the clip seemed just normal and contemporary to me. Danger, danger, Will Robinson! Here comes the AARP catalog!
Show threadLou AndersDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher i hear you
Show threadMark KruegerDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher I feel this brother.
Show threadComputeforloot Dec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher and so goes life…
Show threadInterstelarLADec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher The woman you hooked up with in the parking lot of a dive bar while listening to “XXX” by Jane’s Addiction is on hospice 25 years later. Time is cruel. But the music is still great.
Show threadRichard HoweDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher Alarmingly true.
Show threadDDRDec 5, 2022

@PatrickZircher I was a bit behind the times, the
I experienced the long then vs the long now back then. But my god, now has absolutely become then with startling efficiently.

I am currently reading two books. One was written in the 70s. One is fresh off the presses now in the 20s.

Show threadArek Bekiersz de KornyátDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher Same. Looking for a “Freeze” button, but my fingers’re numb & the train is running too fast.
Trying to explain to my kids that “Led Zeppelin is a fine band…”, or “I was listening Peter Gabriel’s lyrics for hours on my parents’ CD player…”, or that “Syd Barrett was in Pink Floyd; somewhere in the old house, there’s a signed book about them”. But speaking, I feel like being immersed in a solitary echo chamber. It is not my kids’ fault though. They’re from the future
Show threadBobby RangeDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher you're telling me I'm old, but that's okay; my kids do it daily!
Show threadEmily Croy BarkerDec 5, 2022
@PatrickZircher Yep. When you are 50–to pick an age at random!—you are living a different kind of time than you lived when you were 20. It’s a curse and a superpower at the same time.
Show threadLucrativeAngstDec 6, 2022
@PatrickZircher “Suck it, Patch!” - V.C. Andrews
Show threadus-meets-europe.comDec 6, 2022
@PatrickZircher
it'll get worse, trust me