Hi guys! So we’re back. I feel like we stopped posting after this weird dude Leon starting dissing us on the internet. He was all “Wavves is better than your blog!!!” or something and then we got heated about it (this all happened via internet btw). That’s not actually why we didn’t update though. I think it more had to do with me moving to LA, and then moving back, and then we got busy doing actual job-work.
We’re still busy doing actual job-work but also, I love doing this blog and I LOVE doing it with Elizabeth. Isn’t she cole-slawsome?
I also wanted to talk about this TV show from the 90s which was such a weird idea. It starred The State before they were “The State” and also Jon Stewart. I guess the premise was that people wrote things and sent them in (it was on MTV) and this cast of sketch comedians would perform them. It wasn’t good.
BUT, how cool is it that MTV used to do shit like this? MTV went like this: awesome (80s), fun (late 80s), slightly cool and experimental (early 90s), embarrassing but also cool (mid 90s), not cool to admit you watched it but you still did (late 90s), totally lame but borderline ironic or at least that’s what I tell myself to justify watching shows like The Hills (the rest of my life).
Anyway, I know I’m not “proving a point” or “opening up the floodgates for an intellectual discussion” but merely “taking a trip down memory lane” and having a “remember when” moment (lowest form of communication) and the reason why I’m using so many “Chris Farley” quotations finger marks like the “in a van down by the river” guy is because this is why I was “attacked” for having this fun 90s blog in the first place.
So if you don’t like the 90s and you don’t like lists (Leon and other boring people) please don’t submit to our You Wrote It, We’ll Blog It contest. This is where you write a list of the things you loved in the 90s, email it to me and I’ll post it.
Fun? Yes. Byeeeeeeeeeee,
xoxLesley
“First of all…this is so patriarchal. Telling girls “this has to stop”?!” Ahahahahaha… oh, feminism - the radical/fundamental answer to so many social injustices and the easiest way to stop ‘guys’ from being mean to you.
And at least they recognise there’s no “such thing as ‘The Real 90s’.” Indeed, in addition to all the fun, there’s probably a lot of interesting stuff to be found here about the history of memory. Maybe even some Foucault. Nostalgia as a disease, an ailment; since the “gendered phrase” of “romanticization” is already objected to, how about medicalization of the pain of the past?
“But what I definitely can’t abide is guys’ dismissive attitude towards our nostalgia and what it means.” An important part of nostalgia is the dismissal of it, because otherwise no-one would do anything truly new. And no-one would learn anything from history, because it would have no meaning to the present, only to itself, trapped in amber.
