Typical: A Gen X Microcast

princess diana is killed when the car she’s riding in crashes during a high-speed chase in paris to elude paparazzi as you leave phoenix for concord the governor who barely won election is convicted …

the musician jeff buckley jumps into a river in memphis for a swim and his body washes up a week later new york giants legend frank gifford is caught cheating on his wife with a flight attendant paid…

oj simpson is forced to take the witness stand in the civil trial brought against him for the wrongful death of the murdered friend of his wife by the murdered friend’s father who promises to haunt o…

your last residency at bennington begins amidst the january snow with an incident involving a drunken student sexually harassing one of your poet friends so that you have to intervene not knowing the…

everyone doing the macarena at the democratic national convention the rapper tupac shakur is shot in las vegas after attending a boxing match miraculously the letter you wrote to bret easton ellis as…

no one believes the story the menendez brothers tell about the abuse they suffered at the hands of their father and they’re found guilty of murder don’t eat meat or you’ll catch mad cow disease charl…

madonna reluctantly testifies in court against the man who broke into her hollywood home and threatened to slice her up if she didn’t become his wife we’ve made his fantasies come true madonna admoni…

photos of oj simpson’s wife and friend in rivers of blood on the saltillo tile of your youth are all over the news oj tries on the bloody glove a police officer found on oj’s property but the glove a…

oj’s houseguest tells about going to mcdonald’s with oj the limo driver meant to take oj to the airport rang the doorbell repeatedly before oj appeared looking sweaty the guy tricked into meeting his…

when you awake dazed to the sound of clanging heaters you get your correct room assignment and scurry off to the welcome reception in the commons disappointed that most of the other writing students …

bad reviews for bret easton ellis’s book start rolling in and you’re not sure why but you write a letter to the editor of entertainment weekly in response to one of the harsher reviews and to your su…

rumor has it that kojak’s son is a student at the university of arizona and that his girlfriend tori spelling has been seen around tucson and that tori spelling’s castmate from 90210 jennie garth is …

the actress winona ryder offers a large reward for the little girl from ryder’s hometown who is kidnapped from a slumber party your friend from maryland who is as much a fitzgerald fan as you tells y…

arizona voters approve a statewide holiday for martin luther king jr and are rewarded when the national football league awards the state the right to host the super bowl three years on the actor who …

a teenage girl on long island shoots but doesn’t kill the wife of the guy who works on her car when she brings it in to his auto body shop the friend of the actor who played colonel hogan on one of y…

magic johnson arranges a press conference to announce that he is hiv positive and will retire from basketball immediately and as his team the lakers are perennial tormentors of the hometown phoenix s…

the video for madonna’s new song is banned from mtv and the guy on nightline asks her if she’ll make even more money from the song now that it’s banned madonna says yeah so the girl who played the si…

the controversial rap group 2 live crew is tried and acquitted on obscenity charges in florida stemming from a concert performance secretly recorded by two undercover police officers a few days befor…

your high school girlfriend on the ten-dollar-a-minute ship-to-shore phone calls that will come out of your paycheck along with the tracksuit you’ve been wearing day and night and when your high scho…

the old ford pickup truck cruises the harbor of ships gearing up for the sea the ships becoming smaller and smaller until you reach yours the smallest among them and you’re awarded a matching blue tr…