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[phamos]

Enjoy the new book about the single most important publication in teen girl history. Sassy changed their lives? It changed mine, too. I'm sure I've written about Sassy on here before at some point, so I won't babble for too long. But I was weird in middle school. Sassy taught me that it was cool to be weird. And even if that mentality has bubbled over to unfortunate effect into the totally overwrought hipster scene, it doesn't change the fact that some funky 20-something girls in New York once told me that it was OK to wear Docs or Birkenstocks and listen to Liz Phair and dye your hair with Kool-aid (although they didn't recommend the latter, just for the sticky-and-impractical factor). It's hard to overstate how revolutionary that was for a gawky, dorky 12-year-old girl at a private school in Buffalo. I know many of you can relate.

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[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Damn, one of these days I really have to borrow Kip's copy of the August 1994 issue of Sassy so I can scan in the photo of him and share it with my Sassy-lovin' friendslist.

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I have that issue -- where's his picture in it? He's not the girl with multiple personalities, is he?

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha. There's an article in it about what boys find attractive. He was one of the people quoted, and he's pictured on the letters page, taking the survey.

(He won't tell me which quotes are his. I imagine they're like "I dig short girls with really long hair." Heh.)

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

The one with the long wavy hair? Cute!

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

He's lost the long wavy hair, but he's still pretty cute. :-D

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, not "lost" so much as "rarely rocks more than a Jewfro these days". :-D

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

I love that the caption on his picture is "Andrea kept asking this guy extra-credit questions." Dude, why was Andrea hitting on a high school kid? That's kinda twisted.

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, he was quite the hottie. Jailbait or no, I can't say as I blame Andrea. (Just as long as she steers clear of him now. Except she'd be, what, 45 by now? Eh. No threat. ;-))

[burrito19.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had totally forgotten about Sassy (and Jane! Didn't she have a talk show or something?).

Jane mag just isn't Sassy.

I loved that damn mag.

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

Jane actually did have a talk show while the magazine was still being published -- I think it was on Lifetime. I never watched it. She isn't actually the editor of Jane magazine anymore (which, I agree, was a pale shadow of Sassy), but is about to have a radio show on Sirius. And it came out a couple of weeks ago that she used to sleep with Drew Barrymore. I like Drew a little bit less for that. (Jane's kind of a hag, and the editorial tone of the magazine was really more the making of Christina Kelly than Jane.)

lemonade and orangeade juice or pineapple and mango cappacino?

[(Anonymous)]

So hey maggie. I was at the lbirary today and it must have been hot out but it sounded to me like people were saying somewhat offensive remarks. And I'm not an English major or anything, but I came up with the following list of words which rhyme with the word chose.
chose
prose

I don't get it...?

[(Anonymous)]

That's a typo. But please don't confuse what I say with perhaps other people's own referential index.

tame

[(Anonymous)]

Oh sorry maggie. It's Joan Yin. This is somewhat of an old thread.

um, space monkey

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't really get Sassy when I was in high school. Back then I simply thought that some people responded to a different set of stimulae than others. After college I'm perfectly okay going up to someone who's clearly part of a jet-set in-crowd and making a fool out of myself and then thinking to myself, hmm, sorry you probably don't like me but I think it's terrific that I got up the nerve, in an intellectual do you know who Searle is?, to try and relate to you in a supercilious but politically neutral manner.
-joanyin

Re: um, space monkey

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

Sassy probably ended at exactly the right time for me -- if I'd read it all through high school, I miht have been somewhat insufferable, but it got me through that last year of middle school, set me in the right direction, said, "OK, here are your tools -- GO!" and then disappeared.

It's funny, because I think that sense of not-caring-if-I-make-a-fool-of-myself feeling PEAKED for me in high school. I've become more fearful in my old age.