Mid-century, 1955 · Back In My Day
Herb Stubbs
Everything was better when it was harder. Nostalgia as a cudgel.
Herb Stubbs remembers when things were harder, and he would like you to remember it too. A connoisseur of inconvenience and a sworn enemy of the future, he regards every modern comfort as a personal insult delivered by a world gone soft.
Back In My Day is his standing complaint about progress, delivered from a lawn he is fully prepared to defend.
“They have a machine that brings the groceries to the door. In my day the store was uphill, both ways.”
“They call it a smart phone. It has never once said anything intelligent to me.”
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