About This Blog

This is a Gen X blog. 

I'm Michelle DiPoala, and I call myself SuperLowBudge, and I’ve been writing Diary of a Low Budget Superhero for a very long time. I'm Sicilian by ancestry, American by birth. I'm married to a rock star named Joe. We live in Boston. No kids, no pets. 

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 on Diaryland 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."

I think of fellow members of Gen X as Low Budget Superheroes. We were raised in the blighted world of the 1970s, for cryin’ out loud. Even if your family had money, you were still a kid trapped in the 1970s. Pollution. Gas lines. Three TV channels. Plus PBS of course. Sesame Street, Electric Company, Schoolhouse Rock.

The average American Gen Xer went from analog to digital to virtual and AI in a blur of just fifty-odd weird-ass years. Our childhood science fiction eventually morphed into science fact, and I think we deserve some freakin' credit for taking it all in stride. 

The intent of this blog back in 2000 was to see, after a lot of years of writing, how an ordinary American Gen Xer had it all turn out in the end. 

I guess we'll see...