# Episode 518: All Hail Gen-X with Geezer Magazine!

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Podcast: [The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136)
Published: 2026-03-27T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

"You can't go and find all of our stories. You can't just click a button and and be served up. You really have to appreciate them in person by holding the magazine in your hands, and that, to me, makes it more special," says Laura LeBleu, co-founder of Geezer Magazine. It's Laura LeBleu and Paul von Zielbauer, the founders of Geezer Magazine, a new, print-only magazine exploring the Gen-X aging experience. It's a killer experience. Issue 1 came out several months ago and it's this 11x15-inch-sized thing and it has pieces by Kim Cross and Tommy Tomlinson. Issue 2 comes out any day now and features an essay from ya boi. You can read my pitch for the essay at welcometopitchclub.substack.com [http://welcometopitchclub.substack.com/] titled Pitchin' from the Hip. So Laura dreamed up Geezer Magazine in the shower, that incubator of great ideas. She's been an Emmy award winning TV producer, a lead singer of an Italian band, voice of a virtual character, stilt-walking circus ringmaster, minor gay icon, and an NYC cabaret performer. She worked in tech for a bit and it was draining her soul and her creativity muscles were atrophying, she needed to do something, so she decided to bootstrap a magazine. I subscribed. Paul has ridden a bicycle from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, spent 11 years as a journalist with the New York Times, where his work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, that little thing. As the Great Recession hit, he launched a business that got volunteers to build playgrounds for disadvantaged children overseas — kaboom kaboom kaboom, IYKYK. According to Geezer's website, he works quietly in the basement until Laura tells him it's okay to come upstairs. Fun chat that covers: * The appeal of print in a digital world * The cost of paper * That fine line between being pr…

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