tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post4328972655212283160..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Field report: Bowling alley birthday partyagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79290911563169268192014-03-29T11:51:57.868-04:002014-03-29T11:51:57.868-04:00Here's an article from the Atlantic:
"The...Here's an article from the Atlantic:<br />"The Incredible Bowling Bubble of the 1960s"<br />http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/let-the-good-times-roll-the-incredible-bowling-bubble-of-the-1960s/359787/<br /><br />seems like bowling is more something you see in outgoing eras.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2037778825508563242014-03-27T11:35:50.321-04:002014-03-27T11:35:50.321-04:00Thanks for the link, FWG. Masnick, a historian fr...Thanks for the link, FWG. Masnick, a historian from Harvard, cuts Gen X off at 1984... same that "Face to Face" does. Wonder what his reasoning was.<br /><br />I disagree with some of the comments in the article that you can't sharply demarcate generations. Things change rapidly. For instance, look at the way the culture this country was in 1992, vs. 1993.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-78785464716123866622014-03-27T10:02:11.249-04:002014-03-27T10:02:11.249-04:00http://news.yahoo.com/generation-begins-ends-accor...http://news.yahoo.com/generation-begins-ends-according-facts-215138095.html<br /><br />This link may be of interest to you, Agnostic.FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-16640164896286414642014-03-25T21:04:24.470-04:002014-03-25T21:04:24.470-04:00Gaspare, that may be part of it, but Robert Putnam...Gaspare, that may be part of it, but Robert Putnam found that ethnic diversity was a very big factor (and coincidentally wrote a book called "Bowling Alone").Dr. Stephen J. Krune IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07883514471341513380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71374704904604085322014-03-25T16:03:33.750-04:002014-03-25T16:03:33.750-04:00Dr. Krune - I've wondered to myself if I felt ...Dr. Krune - I've wondered to myself if I felt more alive back then because of my young age or because of the overall time period. Maybe a little of both...<br /><br />Haha, "888" is part of my captcha. FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52531720364544125952014-03-25T06:18:58.998-04:002014-03-25T06:18:58.998-04:00If parental paranoia is palpable in an all-white s...<i>If parental paranoia is palpable in an all-white smallish town — if it is a national phenomenon — then it does not have to do with protecting kids against the dangers of a diverse megapolis.</i><br /><br />It's less ethnic diversity or any other objective reality that creates paranoia than the perception of vulnerability. E.g., <i>if</i> some dreadful third world community were to descend on this town, or the "chavs" of England, or one bad kid who has more influence over little Charlie than the adults' non-existent norms and authority, then the citizens have ideological and practical obstacles to complaining or otherwise mitigating any problems in a just way.<br /><br />Less "all-white", vanilla corn pone Christian etc. more "do I and this community have any control over our lives at all". This paranoid sensation, about ethnicity and many other things, percolates through society whatever the actual local area is like.<br /><br />(It's similar to the paranoia about expressing incorrect opinions; no-one is quite sure what would happen if they do so, i.e. why they are so paranoid in a range of perhaps innocuous circumstances, or where these feelings originate; it isn't therefore irrational...)Gaspare Allamalegrohttp://miastoriabuonoposche.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-24506332966116961252014-03-25T03:13:38.267-04:002014-03-25T03:13:38.267-04:00Love this post. Reminds me of all the stuff we di...Love this post. Reminds me of all the stuff we did pre-Internet and how modern life has been rendered into something so fake and disheartening.Dr. Stephen J. Krune IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07883514471341513380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71276237742272325372014-03-24T12:59:30.749-04:002014-03-24T12:59:30.749-04:00"Not to go too off-topic, but what is the dea..."Not to go too off-topic, but what is the deal with peanut allergies and their prevalence?"<br /><br />It could be real, physical changes in the younger generation. That said, remember all the kids being diagnosed asthma?<br /><br />Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-48470441564656169182014-03-24T06:37:32.779-04:002014-03-24T06:37:32.779-04:00Great, but sad post. I was born in '79, and I ...Great, but sad post. I was born in '79, and I was in a youth bowling league briefly in the late '80s, early '90s. I remember little kids granny throwing the ball just like you describe. I'm surprised the people running the bowling alley let them "shotput" the ball. They're little kids sure, but that doesn't sound good for the lane floor.<br />I chuckled at the kid who declined the artificial frosting. Not to go too off-topic, but what is the deal with peanut allergies and their prevalence? Maybe I was sheltered going to a small town school, but I knew NO kids with a peanut allergy growing up in the '80s and '90s. Now it seems just about every other kid has a peanut allergy.Cornnoreply@blogger.com