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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.

[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.

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