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My friend Victoria recently blogged about our elementary-school “girl gang” we had from ages 5 to 8 with our friend Natasha, later joined by Corinne. I found some pictures of us from back then!

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February 12, 2012

You Say You Want a Devolution?

Since 1992, as the technological miracles and wonders have propagated and the political economy has transformed, the world has become radically and profoundly new. (And then there’s the miraculous drop in violent crime in the United States, by half.) Here is what’s odd: during these same 20 years, the appearance of the world (computers, TVs, telephones, and music players aside) has changed hardly at all, less than it did during any 20-year period for at least a century. The past is a foreign country, but the recent past—the 00s, the 90s, even a lot of the 80s—looks almost identical to the present.

As a child of the ’90s, I’m not really on board with this statement. Has Kurt Andersen never seen Fuck Yeah Ugly ’90s Clothes? I don’t think you’d mistake any of those people for being from the year 2012.

Yeah, people still wear plaid shirts and jeans and sneakers, but those things all look pretty different today, in terms of cut, fit and color. And some things are just classics that never go out of style — Converse Chuck Taylors, Levi’s 501s and Ray-Ban Wayfarers have all endured since the ’50s. But I think that says more about the timelessness of those items themselves than fashion being stagnant overall.

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January 29, 2012

I learned what oral sex was from news reports about Monica Lewinsky. Until then, I thought it just meant talking dirty.

(via whosthatgirl-itsjess)

Source: whosthatgirl-itsjess

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January 2, 2012

What the Backstreet Boys Cruise Taught Me About Sex, Love, and Nostalgia

At a BSB show I attended in New Jersey this past June, the video monitors flashed an image of a young woman with a sign that read, “I HAVE NO GAG REFLEX.” When I was done being horrified, I was impressed….

The itinerary included suggestive theme parties pegged to BSB songs, like “The Perfect Fan Prom Night” (“Was your prom BLAH? Well that’s sure going to change!”) and the “PDA Pajama Jam.” (“Intimate scenes fresh from my dreams… Who wants to pillow fight with us?”) In a game show activity, fans were pulled onstage to enter into compromising positions with the guys. The pajama party led to a game of Truth or Dare, which required Howie to pretend to have sex with a pillow (the screams were deafening). Later, Nick lay face down at the edge of the stage while a crowd of audience members administered a “massage.” At one point, I watched as at least a half-dozen women groped Carter’s ass.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at this freak show. For, like, a day.

For the record, I was an ‘N Sync girl. But some (well, one) of them are actually successful now, so they don’t have cruises.

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thedailywhat:

Then And Now of the Day: The latest poster for American Reunion — the fourth theatrical installment of the American Pie movie series — updates the original film’s one-sheet with a stark reminder that the amount of time that’s passed since American Pie was released will be celebrating its Bar Mitzvah next year.

Embiggened posters here.

[movies.]

I adore it and I want to see it.