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Eleven Ways NOT to Suck (loosely based on my own experiences)

Posted on December 18, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments

Wear black

Listen to bands that don’t exist

Swear off all friends and/or family

Develop an addiction (sex, drugs… anything will work – just ask Tiger)

Marry Up

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TSF3: Frustrated Pleasures

Posted on December 5, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments

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Episode 3: Always looking for something else or something other to the somethings we experience every day, we focus on the changed experience of finding new music and the
challenges to the way we eat.  We wrap with the Sleeping Giant’s favorite musician, Scout Niblett.

Episode 3: Always looking for something else or something other to the somethings we experience every day, we focus on the changed experience of finding new music and the challenges to the way we eat.  We wrap with the Jolly Green Giant’s favorite musician, Scout Niblett.

<Check out Rob’s Why All New Music Sucks, a Meandering Rant from TSF3>

TSF2: Well, At Least We Arent Napping

Posted on November 11, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments

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Episode 2: The Slacker Factor team ponders the Power of Tape, the advent of Social Networking with all of its love and annoyances, as well as the music of School of Seven Bells who are aptly named after a mythical South American pickpocket training academy (or so says the all knowing Wikipedia).

<Read pp’s The Power of Tape, a Meandering Rant from TSF2.>

TSF1: The Slacker Revolution Begins!

Posted on October 28, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments

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Episode 1: Our first attempt to control the world through the power and not-so subliminal messages of slackerdom. We discuss what it means to be Generation X, our ever so hip fashion, and the “weirdest and stinkiest” underground dance music of Damian Lazarus.

<Ponder the words of cg’s What it means to be Generation X, a Meandering Rant from TSF1.>

Don’t Look Now: Gen X Hits Middle Age

Posted on October 5, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments

Who even knew there was a Generation X in Canada?!?

Apparently, they are also fast approaching 40 and have redefined popular culture and the definition of success. I like it!

Read more at:

http://www.canada.com/look+hits+middle/2063322/story.html

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