Tag: Gen-X

  • Earworm Thursday: Mike Post is Good at What He Does

    As a parent, it is important that I educate my daughter so that she is prepared for the world that she will enter one day. And for that reason, the wife and I have started showing her old TV shows from the 80’s and 90’s. This week we landed on Quantum Leap.

    The good news is, at least for the first half of the first season, the show has aged well and the kid is enjoying watching it. The bad news is that now I have the theme song stuck in my head non-stop. It’s not a bad theme song – its just that it won’t go away.

    And as I have started looking up more production information on Quantum Leap, I discovered that the theme was written by one of the greatest TV theme song composers ever; Mike Post. If you are a Gen-X kid or a fan of 70’s and 80’s TV, then you have heard his work. See, Mike Post is the co-composer, with Pete Carpenter, of one of the greatest theme songs of all time: The Rockford Files. But, that is an earworm for another day…

  • ODDS and ENDS: Slipping on Ice, How’s Your Colon?, and Call Your Mom

    (Look for the silver lining)

    I had to do the Alt Side Parking dance this morning. You know, move the car out of the way for the street sweeper. Also, if you didn’t hear, we had a real snow storm on Tuesday. Though most of it’s gone, what’s left is the snow that melted and then refroze. So there are patches of ice everywhere. And as I was walking to my car this morning, I stepped on a patch. I lost my balance for a second but was able to catch myself and stop from falling. To do this, I had the yelp in a frightened manner and wave my arms around. The point here is that I didn’t fall though I might have looked silly. And I know this because a guy driving by rolled down his window to yell, “We all saw you almost bite it!” New Yorkers will never miss an opportunity to bust someone’s balls. Ahh.. it was funny. I laughed it off and the guy wishes me a good morning.

    I have now reached the age where friends are not only starting to post pictures about their pets and kids, but also on how they have to go get colonoscopies. I mean, when you reach a certain age, you should get it checked out, so I don’t view this as oversharing. More like Gen-X is ready to take on cancer.

    She’d like to hear from you.