pop cultured

pop culture: a contraction of popular culture; that which is most strongly represented by what is perceived to be popular among society; a commercial culture mass-produced for mass-consumption.

I don’t usually get into politics in this blog and I don’t intend to start now, but how can I not at least mention the upcoming presidential election, and most notably, the most recent addition to the Republican ticket?

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska was born in 1964. By some books she’s on the tail end of the baby boomers. In others, she’s practically a Generation Xer.  Either way, she’s young enough to have watched “The Brady Bunch” as a kid. She may have owned a Velvet or a Crissy doll, and she may have had David Cassidy or Leif Garrett posters in her room. She most certainly knew what an Afterschool Special was, or at least watched Saturday morning cartoons,  and she likely waited all year for those Rankin-Bass Christmas specials to come on (back then they only came on once a year).

1964 was a pivotal year in pop culture and in the world. The Beatles broke out on the Ed Sullivan Show. Bewitched debuted on ABC. Jeopardy debuted on NBC.  And, ever so possibly, 1964 may be the year that America’s first female Vice president was born.