Damn, clothes haven't changed a bit, have they?
Who knew careful reading could let me learn something?
Umm, actually via Frowner via Natilo.
My best friend from college went to grad school with the guy who in high school had been named Sassy's best boyfriend. I was blown away when I found that out after meeting him, because I remembered the magazine piece about him really well. And then it turned out that the girlfriend who had nominated him for best boyfriend had cheated on him once they got to college with a guy who had later become my first serious post-college boyfriend.
Turns out 1991 is also the year a certain hacker group was named "Sassiest Underground Computer Group". So! Big year for sassiness in Sassy.
6: but you did live in Portland, no? And were you not sassy there? Case closed.
And her favorite band is clearly "any Northwest bands, as long as they're underground."
And her favorite band is clearly "any Northwest bands, as long as they're underground."
So there's like, an alternate universe Tedra wandering around? I wonder where she blogs.
Fugazi might be from NW, but not the N.W. That Tedra!
Six shows that Bil Keane's Family Circus still lives.
Huh. Think I found her. Reedie class of '92. Not a public figure.
Now that we have that settled, what's the latest Timberdrama? It seems to be broken, from my vantage point.
Your timber probably isn't actually broken. It's just blood vessels and ligaments.
My timber is not broken, I don't think. The last two posts there are one from Quiggin and one from Belle (where she does a 419-style banning of Mao).
crookedtimber.org has been engaged for some time in a war with www., it seems.
I have noticed that I can connect to Crooked Timber from certain ip addresses and not others.
I missed the Thor the Thrifty Musician thread. 1991 was when both I and a good friend went off to college. (bear with me.) He went to Reed, where he's now a professor. On weekends, when not drinking coffee at Waffle House until we vibrated, we'd stay up all night listening to the Swans. there were other shenanigans, but I think I told at least one of those stories here.
So. 1991.
In 1991, I was rockin' the mullet of doom.
1991 - interning at the nation then working for an italian mtv ripoff.
also, if b-phd is going to not blog somewhere, it really should be at unfogged.
I have noticed that I can connect to Crooked Timber from certain ip addresses and not others.
Same. From home I can't, but work is fine. And the RSS feed works on my phone.
Oh, I should add, the inability to access from home has been going on for about two months now.
A friend's brother was a "Cute Boy with a Zine!" or whatever the hell that feature was called.
I guess I was in 3rd grade at this time. I remember the 5th-graders hung a big banner saying "SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT" in the cafeteria.
helpy-chalk and I graduated from college in '91.
29: The happenin' world when I was in 3rd grade.
1991 I was in HS, just getting into the activist scene for real (I believe my first demo was fall 1990, but I didn't become part of any group until the Gulf War started.) My sister liked "Sassy" pretty well, so there's a good chance I read this article in the original.
15: Same class as me. I don't recognize her but her friend Phil looks awfully familiar. Also the shot of The Baghdad makes me nostalgic.
I was baptized at the Church of Elvis. For realz.
The Challenger blew up when I was in third grade. And the teacher had gone to the coke machine, because some kid had earned a Personal Pan Pizza and a coke for finishing the whole year's worth of reading assignments, and when she came back she said "It blew up" and we all thought that she meant the coke machine. Hilarity ensued.
Little-known fact: Charlton Heston's "You blew it up!" speech in Planet of the Apes was actually referring to a coke machine. The scene was recontextualized during editing.