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From 1988-1994, Sassy was the coolest magazine going for Gen-X teens. Celebrate that golden time by joining Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole for a deep dive into every one of its 80 glorious issues and remember what it was like hanging out with Jane, Christina, Catherine, Karen, and the whole crew, learning What Now, What Next, and so much more!
The next U.S. presidential election is a year away, so why not start thinking about candidates outside typical power structures — maybe the first female president could be Lynda Barry! Or Queen Latifah! Or Cindy Crawford even! Then again, if this month’s What He Said is anything to go by, the (good) guys Sassy talks to would TOTALLY vote for a woman but don’t think other hypothetical (bad) guys would, so: better put a pin in this for the next 30 to 60 years. The issue also gets into real girls’ stories of their parents’ terrible divorces; how to get into college even if your SAT scores stink; Karen’s recently deceased friend Aaron; and why you should be at least a little scared of eating fish. You don’t need to be scared of our latest episode, though — come on in, the water’s fine! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is November 1991 🎧 Feature: Lynda Barry For President 🎧 Feature : Totally Hilarious Divorce Stories 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Could A Woman Be President? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 They Set Me Up 🎧 Alfa Romeo NOTES ✏️ Linda Barry’s Cruddy at Simon & Schuster 😫 “Hernias In Women: Risk Factors, Symptoms And Prevention” at Brown Health
You might think that the October 1991 quiz, "Are You Relationship-Ready?," would be a cinch for your three married co-hosts, two of whom are married to each other. ...Actually, if you've been listening for a while, you might not think that at all. After sharing our range of results, it's on to your latest calls about everything from how bad Neill sucks to whether Sheila Heti should count her days. Finally, we look back on "Probe," the reader survey from the preview issue of Dirt, and almost make it all the way down the first column of questions! More to come there, but for now, pour something tasty in your color-changing mug and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You Relationship-Ready? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Probe
The one thing everyone knows about modeling is that they want you to be tall. Nancy Brensson, one of the cover models for December's reader-produced issue, thinks she should still give it a shot at 5'6". How does it go? Spoiler: pretty much how you'd expect. (Sorry!) Height does keep coming up, though, from 5'11" Janet in an all-Sassy fashion/beauty staff editorial spread to a 5'1" Zits And Stuff letter writer/aspiring basketball player who wants to increase her vertical jump. Milla Jovovich presumably feels safe talking shit about Christina since at 5'9" Milla probably towers over her. All that plus coats, lipstick, and what we'd buy from a back-of-the-issue Teen Sale awaits you in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Watch This Girl Become A Model 🎧 Fashion Feature: Choose 🎧 Fashion Feature: I Would Totally Wear That 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Kimmum Is Feeling Neglected 🎧 Say What 🎧 Inside Out: Your Idea Here 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 💄 Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Toast Of New York 🛳️ "I Really Didn't Want To Go" at Harper's 1️⃣ "Robbie Nevil - Just Like You" on YouTube 👧🏻 Girls Of A Certain Age, Kim France's newsletter 🍗 "What Are Chicken Nuggets Made Of?" at WebMD 📺 My So-Called Life recaps at Again With Again With This 🎭 One Act
After being so excited in the October 1991 Teen Life episode that the Ian Svenonius era was over, HERE HE IS AGAIN in What Now, along with stories on Wig Out, Brad Pitt, and Bulgarian wedding music. Your co-hosts are bitterly divided on the films of Mike Leigh, but come back together on Mary's Danish. Did One To Watch live up to his designation? Was Mike's report on his time as an extra in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare scooped up after getting cut from Dirt? We discuss this and much more in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 Feature: I Killed Freddy Krueger 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 👩🏽🦳 Wig Out online 👤 In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story on YouTube 🍽️ The Famine Within 🍭 Life Is Sweet on The Criterion Channel 👮🏻♂️ "I Fought The Law" by Mary's Danish on YouTube 🧾 Tara's review of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed at GQ
Can you maintain a close relationship with your best friends from high school? What's it like to have a port wine birthmark? How many guys say they've been cheated on? And…what's up with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? One of these things is obviously not like the others, which is why we leave it to you to discover rather than wading into the quagmire ourselves. But! We also tell you about Mike Clark, the adorable new Sassiest Boy In America; an enjoyably offbeat fiction story; and what we think of abbreviating the word "tampons" to just "'pons." Light some incense -- ASSUMING YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE THAT A BUNCH THIS WEEK -- and join us! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is October 1991 🎧 Feature: Best Friends: Can They Last Or What? 🎧 Feature: Israeli And Palestinian Kids Tell You Why They Can’t Live In Peace 🎧 Feature: Mike: The Sassiest Boy We Could Find 🎧 Fiction: Friends & Rivals 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Have You Ever Been Cheated On? 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 On The Road: Portland, OR 🎧 It Happened To Me: Port Wine Birthmark 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍔 Jamie's Hamburgers commercial on YouTube 🦌 "That One Time Portland Was In 'Sassy' In 1991" in PDX Monthly 📖 Sheila Heti on Wikipedia 🔮 Liz Wermcrantz on TikTok 🥴 The Drunk Dave episode of Extra Extra Hot Great 🎬 The One Act Film website
Are you school-phobic? Given that most of our listeners who regularly get near a school are probably students' parents or teachers, we...hope not? But we mentally traveled back in time to take Sassy's September 1991 quiz, "Are You School-Phobic?," to rate ourselves from our high school days. Then it's time to listen to your latest calls: you're listening to Good Hang, taking your kids to swim meets, mixing up VERY similar words for VERY different concepts, and so much more! Get into it! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1991 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📚 A Very Special 90210 Book at McNally Jackson 🌙 Tara's review of the Late Show series finale at GQ 🎞️ The website for Pam's documentary film One Act
From our current place in world history, we know that Dirt -- the Sassy offshoot targeted at Sassy readers' boyfriends, brothers, and friends from the skate park -- had a brief but interesting run. But in September 1991, Dirt was just a dream that required a preview issue as proof of concept, and it came to Sassy readers along with that month's issue of its parent magazine. Is it obvious that this publication is going anywhere? Find out as we walk you all the way through the whole damn thing, from instructions on how to shower to instructions on how to construct a zip gun! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1991 🎧 What Gives? 🎧 Junk Drawer 🎧 Feature: Hard Knowledge: A Gangster’s Story 🎧 Name: Ian MacKaye & Jeff Stanton 🎧 Fiction: Rain, Trains, & Pain 🎧 Fashion Feature: Low Maintenance 🎧 “Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign?” 🎧 A View From The Crowd 🎧 Grooming 🎧 Dirt Ads 🎧 Goodball For Now NOTES 🎶 Dischord Records 📏 "Ian Mackaye on Straight-Edge movement..." on Reddit 🏍️ Jeff Stanton Adventures 🍎 Sidral Mundet 🍔 "Can Working In Fast Food Cause Acne? (With 5 Skin Care Tips)" at Shoes For Crews 👟 "Nike Air Mowabb Returns In Historic Fashion, So Why Aren't Sneakerheads Happy?" at Man Of Many 😼 Josh Gosfield's website 🗽 Gosfield's "Censorship Is Unamerican" painting
The staff of Sassy is probably hoping you already finished your back-to-school shopping, because this month's fashion editorials are not their most inspired. You can wear French-y stripes or bone and beige shades straight out of the Spiegel catalogue, or possibly destroy a skirt to make yourself some fringe. If you're feeling bold, you can sneak into a tattoo studio or piercing pagoda. But maybe your style icon is alleged high school cheerleader Icy Blu, whose début album is advertised in this issue? We've got questions about desert boots, cellulite treatments, "Sammies," and so much more: put down your copy of The Vampire Diaries BOOK and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Vous Êtes Vraiment Une Artiste 🎧 Fashion Feature: Relax Already 🎧 What Next: Cool School Shoes 🎧 Making It: Fringy 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 We Try It: Smooth, Soft, Very Clean Skin 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 💃 "DIY: How To Make A Fringe Skirt - Cute, Fun & No Sewing Required!" at Fiskars The Conscious Ink Subscription 🥪 "The Retinol Sandwich Method: A Gentler Way To Use Retinoids" at Westlake Dermatology ⬜️ Clarins Multi-Mass on Mercari 🥶 Icy Blu on Wikipedia 🫠 "Icy Blu's Disappearance" at @untoldstoriesweb on TikTok 🌄 "Twin Peaks Collectible CardArt By Star Pics - Julee Cruise" on Twin Peaks Blog 📺 "'The Rockford Files' Remains One Of Television's Greatest Hangs" at Defector
The pop culture Sassy covers in the September issue includes some venerable names: Prince, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes. But there are some thrilling new ones, too. All the women who work in the music industry that Christina profiles, getting readers hyped about how to get jobs like theirs. Reese Witherspoon, a mere 14 years old in her breakout movie, The Man In The Moon! All the Commitments from The Commitments! And, probably most importantly, a show whose fortunes Sassy will continue to track until it, amazingly, outlives the magazine: Beverly Hills, 90210. Sure, you've seen their pinup pages in Teen Beat and Bop, but you've never seen them like this: in their underwear, just waiting for you to cut them out along with their clothes and put their paper dolls in situations Darren Star never dreamed of. Fact-checking Christina's blurbs is but one of the many orders of business in our latest episode -- listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Beverly Hills, 90210 Indecently Exposed 🎧 Feature: How To Have A Job In Music And Be Female 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🎓 "Valedictorian Legal Battle Continues" at UPI 🐴 "Sinéad O'Connor Tribute - Jessie Buckley & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra | Troy Live - Culture Night" 🗽 Violent Femmes' "American Music" video on YouTube 👖 Samantha Fox's "(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But The Pants Stay On" video on YouTube 🎨 Judy Francis on Illustrators Online 🕷️ The Torture And The Desert Spiders website 📑 Janet Billig Rich on Wikipedia 🏆 "Judy Mareiniss - SAMMY's Hall Of Fame Induction" on YouTube 🧑🎓 Students Engaged
Tara needs to thank the scissor-happy Sassy reader who sold her the podcast's original copy of the September 1991 issue, because if not for the missing pages (full and partial), we would never have had to acquire another copy of the same issue and find out there were TWO VERSIONS of the cover -- one lipsticked and glossy, one nude-lipped and matte! Stand by as Pam uses her angles to try to get the inside story. While you wait, we can tell you about the issue's Teen Life topics. Karen does a shoddy job trying to make us take up for the beleaguered American farmer. Kim tries to make us chill out about the popular kids. Boys are crying and REALLY defensive about it. And much more! Get into it! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is September 1991 🎧 Feature: Why You Should Lose Sleep Over Farming 🎧 Feature: Popular People Are As Insecure As You (And Other Reasons Fabulosity Is Vastly Overrated) 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Do You Ever Cry? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Who Else Was Big Here? NOTES 🥔 "Potato Vitamin C: Truth, Loss Rates & Smart Cooking Tips" at Alibaba 🧫 "Story Of Discovery: Hepatitis C: From Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis To A Cure" at the National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases 🐞 Coccinellidae on Wikipedia ❄️ "Why No Two Snowflakes Look Alike" at Montana Public Radio 🍑 Catherine Matzig receiving a check from BUTTCON on Instagram 🛩️ Tara's Love Story recaps at Decider
How health-conscious are we, according to Sassy's August 1991 quiz? Quite, as long as you have no follow-up questions! After sharing our results (and complaints) about that, it's on to your calls on subjects including (but not limited to) Nad's, dry brushing, Little House On The Prairie, Hypercolor t-shirts, Gantt charts, Kevin Coogan -- and, of course, Christmas piles, because 'tis always the season. Grab some vegetables or some weed (or both!) and snuggle into your sleeping bag with us. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1991 🎧 Quiz: How Health Conscious Are You 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 No One Asked Pam NOTES 🚬 "The Science Is Clear: Marijuana Is Safer Than Tobacco" at Daily Montanan 🪦 "Cannabis And Tobacco Smoke Are Not Equally Carcinogenic" at Harm Reduction Journal (via the National Institute Of Health National Library Of Medicine) 🫓 "Ask The Dietitian: Fat Intake Range For Teens Is Flexible" at MLive 🩹 Get Welly ☁️ Cloud Dancer ⛈️ "'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response" at John Paul Brammer's newsletter 🖍️ Gallagher's "Gross Girls Coloring Book" ⚖️ Gallagher's "Justice For Rizzo" print
We know this issue landed in mid- to late July, but can it ever be too early to start thinking about your back-to-school wardrobe? Sassy invites you to imagine yourself as a Coco Chanel knockoff, an intimidatingly cool biker chick, or a face and a couple of limbs with monochromatic garments laid on top of you. (It'll make sense when you see it.) You can also learn about eye makeup, hair brushes, kilts, and what kind of time Jane had co-starring in R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" video...but wouldn't you rather talk about all the new ADS that helped make this issue the fattest we've seen in months? We sure would! Get out two to four pairs of jeans and listen to our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Sassy’s Very Most Perfect Back To School Clothes Are Art, You Know 🎧 Fashion Feature: Hit The Road, Jack 🎧 Fashion Feature: Coco A-Go-Go 🎧 What Next: Pick A Kilt, Any Kilt 🎧 Beauty Feature: The Eye Makeup Encyclopedia 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Your List Of Random Facts About The R.E.M. Shiny Happy People Video 🎧 Inside Out: C 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📸 Susan Schacter's website 🦎 Chris Mazza with lizard eyes 👅 "Why We Stick Our Tongue Out When We Concentrate" at Psychology Today 🏫 Penns Manor Area Junior/Senior High School 🍆 Men Only Want Sex And Their Freedom by Nannette LaRee Hernandez at Kobo 💦 Creative Screwing: A Woman's Guide to Becoming An Erotic Enchantress Of Superlustful Sex by Hernandez at Amazon 🖼️ Hernandez's official author photo on Amazon 😤 Hernandez's antifeminist screed at Writers Cafe 📸 Hernandez on Instagram 💄 Clarion commercial on YouTube 😀 R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" video on YouTube 👗 Donna wearing the black daisy dress (with matching headband) on Beverly Hills, 90210 🎥 Katherine Dieckmann on Wikipedia 🔥 Extra Hot Great 602 (on Love Story ) ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider
The August 1991 issue has a few pop culture topics to go deep on. Guns 'N Roses gets covered with a What Now concert review AND a review of Danny Sugerman's very pretentious-sounding book about them in the brand-new column Read It (though probably don't; it only earns one pip as the month's book bomb). Paula Abdul gets a bomb review of her new album Spellbound AND name-checked as "Paula Abdrool" in the Keanu Reeves/Alex Winter cover Q&A. Otherwise, we get a lot of material we might like more coverage on, like: Siouxsie And The Banshees' Superstition; Ethan Hawke's Mystery Date hair; Tori Spelling's 18th birthday party; and what Anne L. could not have foreseen would be an incredible revolving door of BulletBoys. You don't need an extra arm à la The Dark Backward to enjoy our commentary on all of the above and more! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is August 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Read It 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 Ones To Watch 🎧 Feature: The Bogus Interview: A Play In One Act 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 And I'm Tara... NOTES 🎂 Tori Spelling and her "Absolut Birthday" cake 🎉 More photos from Tori Spelling's 18th birthday at The Daily Mail 🌶️ Absolut Pepper magazine ad 🐴 Horace Mann School's website 🌊 "Andrew Trees: Case Of Terminated Horace Mann Teacher Still Causing Waves" at HNN 👹 "Prep-School Predators" in The New York Times Magazine 🏫 "The Master" at The New Yorker 🤷♂️ "Horace Mann Apologizes For Abuse But Won't Start New Inquiry" at The New York Times 🎓 "Horace Mann School Admissions Scandal" at Ivy Coach 💵 "Elite NYC Prep School Horace Mann Accused Of Letting Tech Honcho Buy Kids' Admission For #1M: Lawsuit" at the New York Post 🔬 Gina Rodriguez's "mama lets research" tweet on Twitter 📖 The Big Takeover magazine 🛹 Blind Skateboards Video Days on YouTube 🗡️ Gladiator (1992) on The Roku Channel 🎸 Metal-Rules's review of Danny Sugerman's Appetite For Destruction 👩❤️👨 Mystery Date on Hoopla ⏪ The Dark Backward on YouTube ⭐️ Brenda Starr on The Roku Channel 🏃♀️ Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush" video on YouTube 🥁 BulletBoys on Wikipedia 🎙️ "BulletBoys' Marq Torien And Mick Sweda Discuss Original Lineup Reunion And More" on YouTube 📺 " The Idiot Box , Episode 1" on YouTube 📺 " The Idiot Box , Episode 2" on YouTube ⏳ " Waiting For Godot Review - Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Unlikely Reunion" at The Guardian 🔥 Extra Hot Great 601
August 1991 is the thickest issue we've had in quite a while, but those extra pages were not set aside for Teen Life topics -- in fact, there isn't even a fiction story! There are, however, Kim's try-out for American Gladiators, Christina's musings on long-distance boyfriend pros and cons, a What He Said on breast size, a quick trip over a bridge (or through a tunnel) to Brooklyn for On The Road, and more. Even the bummer feature -- about polygamist Alex Joseph, his nine wives, and their many many children -- is mostly a curiosity in its day, and only a bummer in retrospect. Not a bummer? Our latest episode, featuring original music cues that WILL get stuck in your heads. Or maybe not. Enjoy! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 Feature: I, Gladiatrix 🎧 Feature: Chronic Long-Distance Boyfriend Distress 🎧 Feature: This Cat Has Nine Wives 🎧 Feature: 9 Things About America That Make Us Want To Scream And Throw Stuff 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Does Breast Size Matter? 🎧 It Happened To Me: “Fighting Homelessness” 🎧 On The Road: Brooklyn, NY 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🤺 "Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin To Host American Gladiators Reboot" at Gladiators TV 🧊 Former American Gladiators star Ice on Instagram 💍 Alex Joseph on Wikipedia 👰🏻♀️ "Plural Marriage Was 'Best Offer' Of My Life" by Bo Joseph at The Spectrum 🌞 "Can You Get Sunburnt Or UV Skin Damage Through Car Or Home Windows?" at University Of Wollongong Australia 🥥 "Jesse 'Shake It Like A White Girl' Jaymes - College Girls" on YouTube 💰 Jesse Itzler on Wikipedia ⁉️ "Uber Driver Sucked Me Off?!" on Know Your Meme 🏚️ National Student Campaign Against Hunger And Homelessness 🍕 Fascati Pizza on Yelp 🌿 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 📸 "1992 Press Photo Slidell Factory Store Essay Winner Megan Watson In Louisiana" on eBay 👊 "Double Fisting Two King & Queen Motorcycle Seats | Custom Seat Work At Atomic Cycle Works" on YouTube 🌴 Again With This on Patreon ✊ National Day Labor Organizing Network
We're just back from a nearly two-month break. We took two VERY confrontational quizzes ("Are You A News Moron?" and "Are You An Annoyance?"). We...barely remember how to do this, so please enjoy a basically unedited stream of thought conversation on wedgies, Margaret Thatcher, Antarctica, huffing in an unventilated garage, and much much more! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You A News Moron 🎧 Quiz: Are You An Annoyance? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🕵🏻♂️ The Deliberate Stranger DVDs on eBay 👔 Tara's piece on Justin Theroux, Corporate Villain at GQ
The hot dogs are sizzling, the fireworks are firing, and July 1991 cover model Rochelle is telling Sassy George Washington never meant shit to her and that HER Independence Day is January 1, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. HELL YEAH! ...There is more to the issue, but it doesn't really compare. One fashion story is in gray; the other is red, white, blue, and American flag print for the holiday Rochelle shan't be celebrating. Sassy also wants to help you lighten up your makeup; turn a t-shirt and a skirt into an ugly and ill-fitting dress; and look ahead to fall -- nooooOOOOO! -- and the plaids and suedes they think you'll be rocking for back to school. Light a firework and listen! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Gray Matters 🎧 Fashion Feature: Burn Baby 🎧 Making It: Dress Yourself 🎧 What Next: Almost Time 🎧 Beauty Feature: Take It Off 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Generally Excellent 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🥕 "I Drank Carrot Juice Every Day For A Month To Get A Tan, And This Is The Result" at Glamour 😴 "Forgotten 90s: Maggie's Dream, 'Love And Tears'" at Medium 📸 Robi Rosa on Instagram ℹ️ Patri Feher on Scannography 🎄 Audubon Park Christmas 2015 at Audubon Park Perspectives 🦉 "John James Audubon's 'Little Screech Owls' from 'The Birds Of America' Holiday ArtCards" on Amazon 💔 "Scorned Lover Charged In Internet High Jinks" at the New Haven Register 🏫 The Harmony School in Bloomington, IN
It's summer, and everyone at Sassy is already too hot to work. Christina admits that What Now is kind of a flop -- she's even a month late mentioning Ian Svenonius's birthday! (It's June 1, in case you also want to mark your calendar for the most important event of the year.) One To Watch Jamie Walters, we can now agree, burned bright in his moment, but that his moment did not last long. And then the staff just foregoes Watch It, Listen Up, AND an entertainment feature, instead assembling an insert full of recommendations for what they're all going to be watching, reading, and doing in the summer of 1991. Which of them do we think you should listen to? Listen to US to find out. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy 🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude 🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma? 🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11 🎧 Fiction: Serenade 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister? 🎧 On The Road: Cleveland, Ohio 🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🏡 Chapterhouse on Wikipedia 🌎 "The Overpopulation Myth And Its Dangerous Connotations" at The Sierra Club Washington State 🌍 "Beyond 8 Billion" at The Population Institute ⚙️ Simple Machines 👖 Jamie Walters's Levi's TV commercial 🧑🚒 "Over The Hills: I Was A Beverly Hills, 90210 Heartthrob And Engaged To An A-List Actress -- But I Gave Up Fame To Become A Firefighter" at The U.S. Sun ⚓️ Odyssey on YouTube 🐤 Adam Hann-Byrd's website 🚇 The International Pop Underground Convention on Wikipedia 🎂 "IPUC At 30!" at Chick Factor 😶 "Words In Your Face" on YouTube 📰 "Words In Your Face" review at the New York Times 💅 Cover Girl NailSlicks in Tawny Peach at Amazon 🎞️ "I Watch Slacker To Read Austin In The Original" at Places Journal 😝 Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha Ha at Woolly Mammoth 🤡 "It's 1:30 AM, And A Clown Wants To Fix You" at the New York Times
The editors use an antique slur (sadly surging back to popularity) to describe a contributor's mentally handicapped sister, but let's not focus on that when the piece -- especially the photos it's built around -- is thoughtful and sensitive. Then, we can move on to why and how to dump a guy; no, taking you to the library isn't one of the reasons, though it does come up. Mike reports from the McDonald's training institute Hamburger University, where the sight of students and instructors actually caring about their careers in customer service alarms his apathetic Gen-X sensibilities. On The Road goes to Cleveland; female staffers' brothers confess the ways they tortured them as kids; a teen mother glosses over a LOT of what Happened To her; and more! You might want fries with this pretty early on, so sort that out before you hit play! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy 🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude 🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma? 🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11 🎧 Fiction: Serenade 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister? 🎧 On The Road: Cleveland 🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍔 "Michael Jordan McDonald's McJordan Commercial 1993" on YouTube 🎓 Hamburger University at The Best Schools 👦 The Boy Crisis at Warren Farrell's website 📰 "The 'Boy Crisis' Is Overblown" at the New York Times 🧠 Underestimated: The Wisdom And Power Of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan at Simon & Schuster ✍️ Seth Kaufman Writer 🗺 Cleveland's Tower City Center 🌊 "Lake Erie Historical" at Cleveland Historical 📹 "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video" on YouTube 🍛 No Kid Hungry
Just in case you haven't already picked out every bathing suit you're going to need for the summer of 1991, Sassy's bringing you one more fashion story on bikinis. Hope you like the way Bronwyn models them because there's very little variation in her poses! The issue also covers vaguely pan-Latin American looks, some kind of fairy tale beauty story, bandana and patchwork-y prints, and how to keep the sun's harmful rays off your precious skin. Sure, a deep tan sounds good now, but someday you'll be in your fifties and VERY aware of sun damage! TRUST US!!! All of this and so very much more awaits you in our latest episode! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is June 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Fiesta Forever 🎧 Fashion Feature: When Wet 🎧 What Next: Country Trip 🎧 Beauty Feature: Legend 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It: Protect Your Bod In The Sun 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: One Way To Ask A Guy Out 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🔎 "My dad claims to have made a product. And I need help finding it" in r/find 💃 Leslie Bibb Credits Oprah For Her Big Break After Winning 1990 Modeling Contest That 'Opened Up A Whole World'" at People 📫 "Mail-Order America" at the New York Times 🥪 The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank's food pantry locator
Is "rotted" cooler slang than "rotten"? How "monotone" can Beat Happening's lead vocalist actually be? How does Christina rate the relative cuteness of Aleka's Attic, River Phoenix's band? Has the time come for a Toy Soldiers remake? Is it acceptable to call Winona Ryder "Noni"? These are but a few of the questions we answer in the June 1991 Pop Culture episode. We also have a few about Alek Keshishian, but he...probably shouldn't listen. You, however? You definitely should. QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is June 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: I Saw River Phoenix Brush His Teeth 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Pam 'Beaver' Ribon Is A Lot NOTES 🦠 Girl Germs 3 at the Internet Archive 😷 Girl Germs 4 at the Internet Archive 🍟 Dave's post about McDonald's packaging on Bluesky 🎶 Robert Downey Jr.'s song "Broken" on YouTube 😽 "Cat Lover Billy Corgan Is On The Cover Of 'Paws' Magazine Again" at Exclaim 🎢 Billy Corgan On A Roller Coaster on Instagram 🪖 Toy Soldiers on The Roku Channel 🎨 True Colors on Hoopla 🌱 A Tale Of Springtime on The Criterion Channel 👁️ If Looks Could Kill on Hoopla 👀 If Looks Could Kill on Again With Again With This [paid subscription required] 📹 Alek Keshishian's website 🎻 Aleka's Attic's song "Across The Way" from the PETA benefit album Tame Yourself on YouTube 🎵 Josh McKay on Wikipedia ☔️ Rain Phoenix on Wikipedia 🏠 Aleka's Attic on Wikipedia 🎸 "The Story Of River Phoenix And Aleka's Attic" at Bill DeYoung's website 🤠 Donate to the Central Texas Food Bank
