festive cheer: precarious for the holidays

the new uneasy normal had arrived by the late 1990s

Much has been made, and with good reason, of the precariousness of the Millennial generation, today’s young adults. But jump back to to the late 90s — as with 1999’s crime comedy Go — for a reminder that Generation X, my own peers, were and are also similarly walking a fine line between making a living and, you know, not.

Iconic Xers, including Sarah Pol…