I Put A New Pinned Post On Facebook

NEW FRIENDS! (Old Friends, you guys already know this stuff.)

I'm Michelle (Lexi Kahn) DiPoala.

I'm Sicilian by ancestry, American by birth. I'm married to a rock star named Joe. We live in Boston, where we met in the indie music community in 2002. Joe played bass and keys, I wrote about the scene and booked shows. We have no kids and no pets. We don't even have a plant. It's all we can do to keep ourselves alive (no joke, some wild stuff happened.)

I write a Gen X blog called "Diary of a Low Budget Superhero." In the early days it was called "Jungle Sweet Jungle," a nod to the Generation X book "Welcome to the Jungle" by Geoffrey T. Holtz.

Who is Gen X? People of a certain age who are reluctantly connected by a world of ideas at a peculiar time and place in American history.

When I first started blogging in the year of our Lord Y2K, I wrote in my profile that I was "One humble, cocky representative of the 75 million unsung, glorified, starry-eyed non-romantics; the silent screaming generation; that TV-bred, tuned-out, charitable, self-centered, zealous, apathetic generation known simply as X." Put another way, full of contradiction and generally misunderstood.

Gen X—we contain multitudes.

I'm the Low Budget Superhero for a lot of reasons (that's mostly what's in the blog) but I think of fellow members of Gen X as Low Budget Superheroes, too. We were raised in the blighted world of 1970s America, for cryin’ out loud. Even if your family had money, you were still a kid trapped in the 1970s. Polyester and Corduroy. Air Pollution. Dirty water. Gas lines. Three TV channels. Plus PBS of course, and thank God for Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom, and Schoolhouse Rock.

Growing up the average American Gen Xer leapt from analog to digital to virtual and AI in a blur of just fifty-odd weird-ass years. Etch-a-Sketch to iPad. Our childhood science fiction eventually morphed into technology fact, and you know what? We built that shit.

The intent of Diary of a Low Budget Superhero back in 2000 was to see, after a lot of years of writing about life, how an ordinary American Gen Xer had it all turn out in the end. The blog features Tags (also called Labels) like Anxiety, Depression, Women's Issues, College, Books, Music, TV, Horror Movies, Boston, Equality, Race relations, Donald Fucking Trump, Class Warfare, Guns, God, Dolls, Friends, Family, and literally a hundred more.

So how does an ordinary American Gen Xer have it all turn out in the end?

Well, I'm still writing. So I guess we'll see...

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TheLowBudgetSuperhero.com. 

 

 

 

PS: You're seeing this on Facebook. I'm also SuperLowBudge on Diaryland, MySpace, Tumblr, Medium, Threads, Instagram, BlueSky, Mastodon, Friendica, YouTube, Reddit, Goodreads, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud.
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