The Goon Line 022: Six things millennials have in common with Dr. Frasier Crane

Right now I have a lifestyle that allows me to “exercise” in the middle of the conventional workday. I’ll pick up a Pilates class at 11 on a Tuesday and am usually one of the youngest students in the room. Last week I had to make a return at a store, and because it was raining and I couldn’t do my 10k steps outside, I found myself actually mallwalking. The crowd was what you would expect it to be.

I have always thought about my age a lot. More annoyingly to people who know me, I have also always talked about my age a lot. I liked being an “old” kid, was a deeply uncomfortable teenager and young adult, and now feel like an absolute infant among my peers. And there’s nothing like facing a low-grade, ongoing existential crisis about one’s mortality and place in the world with a crushing piece of humorous writing.

This piece provided exactly the skewering of Buzzfeed-y articles I needed as I faced my fall 2020 flavor of this internal struggle, and I’m sure most of you reading this have already seen it. I highly recommend you read or reread it today, or any time you need to grab a bench for a rest during your mallwalk.

***Bonus Frasier content: Every Friday, internet personality Patrick Monahan posts a “TGIF (Thank God I’m Frasier)” image that gets me to LOL at least half of the time.***