Morisky

I lost mine in a move in the 1990s, and have not needed it. It was always in the box anyway.

If you feel the urge to stop smoking, please see a doctor.

Habit Rouge, and Imperial. Both by Guerlain were my go-to in the early and mid-eighties.

I like going into grocery stores when I go abroad on vacation. In 1991. I was in a store in Vienna and saw General foods international coffee Viennese.

The Motorola V8160. Back when having a tiny phone was the flex. I currently have an iPhone 12 mini because I still like a smaller phone.

I am very old Gen X (1961) and have both Silent Gen parents.

Supertrain [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=marbyrYVMdg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=marbyrYVMdg)

I experienced corporate life in the 90s as the real segue from an 80s culture that was a bit of a cultural mullet, where the surface was Reagan/Mad Men but the undertow was Mudd Club, to a more business-performance based, where cultural signifiers were less important than your financial contribution. I worked as a buyer's clerical at Brooks Brothers in the 1980s. I returned to Portland, Oregon and worked through the 90s. Early 90s felt like allowance of any kind of expressed subculture broke through a bit more, people could be a bit freer and more expressive, but things like corporate metrics were taken more seriously. It was the mid-90s that it felt like were all-about-business and that the legal repercussions of any kind of lack of decorum/respect were taken more seriously. Things like the ADA, acceptance of "alternative" lifestyles in the workplace in some ways meant if you performed you were judged for that instead of things like "he has a family and has to make more money/gets holidays off". I had heard from a friend that in the early 90s she wore pants to a new job in urban planning and was sent home to change into a skirt. Even five years later that would be seen as "insane".

It seems like a very natural reaction. I share it. I would classify it as some sort of emotional intelligence-based awakening. It definitely came from somewhere and was not spontaneous. I think at a certain point you just get comfortable trusting your intellect and senses more than the externally-approved paradigm ("families are happy and supportive and *you* are the misfit if you disagree").

I am some mix of avoidant personality and seriously introverted so I have tended to have fewer, deeper platonic friendships, noncommitted sexual partners, and resisting some apparent "good ones". Most of the platonic friendships I have moved on from, there seem to be a lot of my cohort that have serious anger issues expressed in an enlarged manner by alcohol. I think back on the romantic opportunities I "missed" from some seemingly "good ones", but do not have too much regret, as I realize my introverted nature makes being with people for very long really taxing. The biggest regrets I have had are staying in some of those platonic friendship/roommate situations way too long that were not healthy.

Gen-X status verified.

Violent Femmes is the soundtrack of my life.

Style is created in reaction to the current cultural zeitgeist. For Silent Gen and Boomers (particularly whites), a post-1945 world that catered to them culturally and economically enabled a worldview that allowed the luxury of sentimentality. Economic security enabled by affordable (wage/cost ratio) housing, medical, education, and a predominantly white culture reinforced feelings of security and even dominance. Seeing the world as a safe and enabling place allows you to see your current life as an extension of a safe and reinforcing past. Hearts, angels, country theme (simple is better), Hummel figurines, Precious Moments all speak of a safe world culturally and economically enabled by the institutions of society. For younger generations, with diminished opportunities, irony and minimalism describe the way those generations see their diminished prospects. The few excursions into maximalist style tend to be colorful, glitzy and shiny, displaying escapist and ironic/satirical worldview. The few traditional style elements (Grand Millennial interior design, Lumbersexual menswear) display a desire to recapture a more secure past.

Moving all investment to USA defense stocks. All those amazing wars coming up!

[Whatever I could find at thrift store](https://share.icloud.com/photos/011VcdfUxCMMDIJBh4PCg5UkQ).

>call Life Alert The [AI version of that ad](https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/17ytxic/life_alert_tv_ad/) is hilarious.

Not to mention Elvis Costello and Duran Duran at the grocery store.