Generations
August 12, 2008My favorite moment of recent wish-I-had-video real-life generational absurdity happened at dinner last night: My 8-year-old son explaining to my 83-year-old mom the difference between U2 and YouTube.
My Scrapbook- Senator Al Franken as Mick Jagger
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