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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. ;-))