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My Tuesday column for the National Post was planned in a moment of ennui and calculated to offend (though by means of truthful utterances, to be sure); naturally it immediately became one of the most lavishly praised things I've written. Isn't that always the way? Catch up here if you missed it.
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My theory: the sorts of people likely to be offended by that column are also the sorts of people who wouldn't stop reading their copy of the Toronto Star even if it was on fire.
Posted by Lord Bob | February 25, 2009 9:39 AM
Posted on February 25, 2009 09:39
On the chance that my first theory is incorrect (Colby hatched from an orphaned egg, and his first meal was the weakest of his brood-mates), isn't the next Cosh family dinner liable to be a bit awkward?
Posted by Ryan Cousineau | February 25, 2009 12:20 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 12:20
No, the egg thing is pretty much spot on.
Posted by Colby Cosh | February 25, 2009 12:28 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 12:28
You have tapped into all of the latent dyspeptic curmudgeonliness of a generation, my friend. Viva la revolucion!
Posted by Nanonymous | February 25, 2009 1:40 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 13:40
I quite enjoyed the article and sent it around to my circle of semi-angry-not-so-young-men.
Have you seen that "Just for Men" hair dye commercial? I just about lost my lunch when I first saw it. (I'm not alone apparently: http://www.avclub.com/articles/i-hate-this-commercial-just-for-mens-summer-of-lif,9280/ )I also yelled out in the theatre "I wish the boomers would just die" after seeing the Across the Universe trailer.
I dunno...Gen-X isn't that much different from the boomers - we just get stuck watching them eternally pat themselves on the back, and that's what grates.
Posted by GMO | February 25, 2009 4:48 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 16:48
As if I need to actually watch the commercial to fly into a rage over a haircare product, or anything else, that incorporates a Grateful Dead reference.
Posted by Colby Cosh | February 25, 2009 6:06 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 18:06
Mind if I call you Jeremiah? He said something about the women who tripped around in their stylish clothes of the time would eat their own children.
Somewhat similar.
Derek
Posted by dkite | February 25, 2009 10:27 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 22:27
Now that you're enjoying Baby Boomers getting their comeuppance as much as I have, now do you believe in God?
Posted by David | February 25, 2009 10:56 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 22:56
Should read 'as I am' not 'as I have'.
Posted by David | February 25, 2009 10:58 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 22:58
I love it!
Posted by Mike Poholka | February 25, 2009 11:49 PM
Posted on February 25, 2009 23:49
hey, I'm a boomer and I thought you were spot on.
It seemed to me a rather reasoned analysis of the situation. I detected no bitterness or anger.
i loved it
Posted by Pedro | February 26, 2009 6:50 AM
Posted on February 26, 2009 06:50
This blogger really nailed your "whiny claptrap" for what it is:
http://tinyurl.com/d6to4x
I particularly like the sentence: "So is Colby Tosh 'Colby the Cool?' I don't think so - More like Cosh, Laird of Tosh."
Spot on!
Posted by Anonymous | February 26, 2009 2:05 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 14:05
I dunno, maybe there's a chance this "Colby the Cool" thing will catch on.
Posted by Colby Cosh | February 26, 2009 2:20 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 14:20
Honestly, it's not like I'd mind "Laird of Tosh" either, come to think of it.
Posted by Colby Cosh | February 26, 2009 2:22 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 14:22
I notice that the raging boomer blogger (bloomer? booger?) drove home his point with a cartoon titled "X marks the spot: Jägermeister and Schadenfreude cocktail."
Now we know why Edmonton boasts the world's highest per capita Jägermeister consumption, EH COLBY!? Plus: not a bad likeness.
Anyway, good for Thamus for knowing how to work the computer.
Posted by Geoff | February 26, 2009 4:26 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 16:26
Kinsella's trying to stir up a "highly literate flame war" between you and "Dawgs Blawg."
Man, that guy lives for conflict, doesn't he. That's why I have nothing to say.
Posted by Saskatchewan's Sexiest Blogger | February 26, 2009 4:28 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 16:28
@ Saskatchewan
Colby Cosh had the temerity to challenge boomer hegemony. If Warren let this one slide, you know, Cosh could have really gone off the reservation in a future article and suggest that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are okay, but not as great as everyone thinks they are.
Posted by Mark | February 26, 2009 8:54 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 20:54
Your column's been featured on Arts & Letters Daily...right hand column, second down.
Posted by Eric Crampton | February 27, 2009 11:58 AM
Posted on February 27, 2009 11:58
So excepting the suit, how accurate is guy from Ireland at portraying you in cartoon form following an Oilers loss?
Posted by FACLC | February 27, 2009 5:43 PM
Posted on February 27, 2009 17:43
Pretty accurate. I am often described as looking like a shitty cartoon that's been stolen and crudely altered by an illiterate.
Posted by Colby Cosh | February 27, 2009 5:50 PM
Posted on February 27, 2009 17:50
Cosh
Who knew? Who knew Gen-Xers were so bitter? Gosh, I thought after being mini-vaned
to your soccer games by your
soccer moms and being so coddled and succoured by your
over-protective boomer parents
that you delay leaving the nest
until you are going on 28 years
of age that you might be content with your lot in life.
Instead I find out you consider
your boomer parents who pampered you to be in fact
repugnant. Who knew?
Posted by Danton | March 2, 2009 6:05 PM
Posted on March 2, 2009 18:05
My column was signed with my real name, so if my parents have a problem with it they can find me, anonymous smartass.
Posted by Colby Cosh | March 2, 2009 7:23 PM
Posted on March 2, 2009 19:23