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Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

From 1988-1994, Sassy was the coolest magazine going for Gen-X teens. Celebrate that golden time by joining Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole for a deep dive into every one of its 80 glorious issues and remember what it was like hanging out with Jane, Christina, Catherine, Karen, and the whole crew, learning What Now, What Next, and so much more!

Copyright: © 2021 Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole

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November 1990 Fashion Etc.: Hair School, A Witch & Brown Squats Oct 01, 2024

Show notes

The weather's getting chillier, and the fashion (etc.) of the November 1990 knows it. Hence a whole story about brown coats, and a spread to help you source all the goth-y looks your black heart desires. Mary brings us a report on her time auditing classes at the Vidal Sassoon Academy and actually getting to cut real (mannequin) hair. Jane tells a confusing story about getting mugged, a pet store owner's daughter sticks up for her mom (we're not having it), and much much more in an episode that REALLY smells like Teen Spirit!
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TOPICS

🎧 It Is November 1990
🎧 Fashion Feature: Coatings
🎧 Fashion Feature: Wicked
🎧 Beauty Feature: I Was A Beauty School Dropout
🎧 About Face
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Sassy Club
🎧 Say What
🎧 Inside Out: Ooh, It’s A Little Baby Sassy!
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Goodbye Forever
NOTES

📸 Maybe or maybe not the Joe Hill who shot the November 1990 cover

🤳 The Joe Hill linked above, on Instagram

🌐 Probably our Markus Morianz's website

✂️ Sassoon Academy

👃 Le Scent on eBay

🧴 Perfume applicators on Etsy

😷 Teen Spirit Pink Crush at Walmart

📖 The March 2023 Vanity Fair article about Jane Pratt's newsletter DeedDa

🗺️ "Where Is DeedDa?" at Dirt

November 1990 Pop Culture: Deee-Lite, Kim Gordon & Dinky Bossetti Sep 17, 2024

Show notes

Did Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry approach their "Well, Did You Evah?" cover for Red Hot + Blue with the appropriate level of professionalism? Which downtown shopping and dining spots Christina visited with Sonic Youth still exist today? Was Shawn Wayans One To Watch? What does "gerbiling" really mean? And how did Winona Ryder EVER agree to play a character named Dinky Bossetti? We can't promise we answer all these questions, but we definitely try in the November 1990 Pop Culture episode!
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🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is November 1990
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: Sonic Youth On $100 A Day
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

🇩🇪 "German reunification" at Britannica

🏛️ "My Washington: Beanie and Drew Spangler" at WashU's Washington Magazine

💸 "Tax evasion by millionaires and billionaires tops $150 billion a year, says IRS chief" at CNBC

🫦 Sound Bites From The Counter Culture on YouTube

😵 "Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra interviewed during his 1987 obscenity trial" at Boing Boing

🐸 "Toad licking: just say no, National Parks Service tells Americans seeking a high" at The Guardian

📒 Teenage Gang Debs Issue #4 on eBay

🎞️ Tune In Tomorrow... on YouTube

🏡 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael at JustWatch

💘 Book Of Love playlist on YouTube

🛜 Shawn Wayans's website

🖍️ FAQ at Crayola

🛍️ The Patricia Field store

☕️ "Starbucks on the Riviera" at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York

📸 Kim Gordon on Instagram

👋 Gordon's "Bye Bye" video on YouTube

💿 "Album Of The Week: Kim Gordon The Collective" at Stereogum

✨ "Kim Gordon & model home - 'razzamatazz'" at Stereogum

🎶 "How Kim Gordon and D.C. rap duo Model Home got together to get weird" at The Washington Post

😓 Sweaty Betty utility open back jumpsuit on Postmark

🔥 EEHG 318: In Vogue: The 90s

November 1990 Teen Life: Dates, Vegetarians & Sleep Sep 03, 2024

Show notes

Let's all open up a new issue together! Yes, the first feature is a dispiriting profile of Bill, who only recently left foster care to reunite with his family. But there's also dating, sleeping, a primer on becoming a vegetarian, and a truly classic fiction story. What He Said is all about your potty mouth; Body Talk is telling you about a new-fangled piece of exercise gear known as a step; Help For Him addresses bad smells Down There...and more! Grab a tall glass of orange juice and listen!
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🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky

📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram

🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

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JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is November 1990
🎧 Feature: Bill Is Just One
🎧 Feature: Go To Sleep
🎧 Feature: How To Have Fun On A Date With A Guy You’ve Never Gone Out With Before In Your Life
🎧 Feature: More Tofu-Lentil Loaf, Anyone?
🎧 Fiction: Breathing Room
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 What He Said: Do You Like Girls Who Curse?
🎧 Help
🎧 Help For Him
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

🍖 Scrapple on Wikipedia

👨‍💼 Retired ACLU attorney Chris Hansen on Wikipedia

📜 "The 'Magna Carta' of Cyberspace Turns 20: An Interview With the ACLU Lawyer Who Helped Save the Internet" at the ACLU's website

👦🏻 “When Should A Child Be Taken From His Parents?” at the New Yorker website

👶 “When Foster Parents Don’t Want To Give Back The Baby” at the New Yorker website

📦 Lori Eaton's Found Archives

🔗 Eaton on LinkedIn

👟 Reebok Step

🪑 The Reebok Fitness Multipurpose Bench

💅 "Abdul backs bill for cleaner nail salons" at SFGate

👂 "Twitter Helps Q-Tip Find High School Sweetheart" at BET's website

💝 Q-Tip's high school sweetheart Pamela Sweat on Instagram

🗣️ "Person-Centered Language" at Mental Health America

🪦 Debra Ashley Nettles Mahany's obituary

🤘 "A study found toxic metals in popular tampon brands" at the NPR website

🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon

October 1990 Slumber Party: Sisters, Paint & Driver's Ed Aug 20, 2024

Show notes

After skipping the September 1990 Slumber Party, we're resuming with our results from the October 1990 quiz -- What Kind Of Sister Are You? -- then launching into a bumper crop of your latest voicemails. Why are driver's ed films so horrifying? Can you still get Mad magazine? What's lymph? We figure out SOME of this in this all-new episode!
QUICK LINKS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is October 1990
🎧 Quiz: What Kind Of Sister Are You?
🎧 From The Hotline
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Pam's Marriage Award
NOTES

👯‍♀️ The October 1990 quiz: What Kind Of Sister Are You?

🧴 Colors de Benetton / Woman

👃 Colors de Benetton on Fragrantica

🌮 "Eat Through Austin Day One: The Eatening" at Pamie

🤢 "Reasons For This Tummy Ache" at Jamie

🏀 Mr. Throwback on Extra Extra Hot Great

⛹️‍♂️ Tara's Mr. Throwback review at Cracked

😥 The Change on Britbox

October 1990 Fashion Etc.: Twin Peaks, Muscles & Be Fri Necklaces Aug 06, 2024

Show notes

This month's fashion stories run the gamut more than most issues. Do you want to dress like everyone on Twin Peaks? It's 1990 -- of course you do, and so does everyone else! Do you want to wear velvet? Mmmm, depends if you like everyone to see sweat stains on your catsuit. This month we're also learning why we should exercise with weights, how gardening clogs could be worn in everyday life, what benefits you could obtain from loitering around a department store wig section (???), and who came SECOND in the Sassiest Boy In America contest -- but first in our hearts. Snap that Best Friends necklace in half now: you'll want complete silence for our latest episode!
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🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is October 1990
🎧 Fashion Feature: Superplush
🎧 Fashion Feature: Anytown, USA
🎧 What Next
🎧 Beauty Feature: Be Strong
🎧 About Face
🎧 Zits And Stuff
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Sassy Club
🎧 Diary: Boy-crazy? Us?
🎧 Say What
🎧 Inside Out: Our First Runner-Up
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

👗 "Rare Punk label Betsey Johnson velvet halter dress" on Poshmark

👞 "Smith & Hawken Gardening Clogs - green" on Poshmark

💪 "How can strength training build healthier bodies as we age?" at the National Institute On Aging

🏋️ Iron Method

📷 Bordeaux Modeling on Instagram

💁‍♀️ Nicole Bordeaux's bio at Photogenics Media

📷 Nicole Bordeaux on Instagram

🏫 The Freshman Dorm book series at ThriftBooks

☎️ MC Hammer 900 number commercial on YouTube

🗣️ MC Hammer at All American Speakers

⏳ Tara's review of AppleTV+'s Time Bandits at Cracked

October 1990 Pop Culture: Christian Slater, Whit Stillman & Woofs Jul 23, 2024

Show notes

Who has tattoos? What snack does Iggy Pop most resemble? How seriously do we need to take Perry Farrell's 1990 First Amendment statement? What's wrong with Whit Stillman? Is there a minimum age for album reviewers? What's "Balt"?! We answer all these questions and so many more in the October 1990 Pop Culture episode!
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🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky

📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram

🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is October 1990
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch: Balthazar Getty
🎧 Feature: Christian Slater Has Simple Needs
🎧 Feature: Don’t Mess With Her
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

🌴 Again With This, our sister podcast on (among others) Beverly Hills, 90210

🧑‍🚀 Faith No More's "We Care A Lot" live, on YouTube ("The Right Stuff" riff is at 2:20)

🫂 The official "We Care A Lot" video on YouTube

🪦 Information on the I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago, on Lubricated Goat singer Stu Spasm, at Magic Umbrella's website

🦟 "To The Mosquitoes" by Perry Farrell

☄️ Aaron Cometbus on Wikipedia

📕 BookThugNation on Instagram

📸 Aaron Cometbus in a post on Julia J. Wertz's Instagram

🚌 Cometbus

📖 Zine-o-Matic

😓 Mo' Better Blues on Starz

🔊 Pump Up The Volume's soundtrack on Wikipedia

🎶 Pump Up The Volume's music supervisor Kathy Nelson

🎞️ "Talk Hard: The Making Of The Teen-Angst Classic 'Pump Up The Volume''" at The Ringer

🌆 Metropolitan on Max

🎬 Metropolitan trailer on YouTube

🎵 Monie Love's "Monie In The Middle" video on YouTube

📺 Monie Love's "It's A Shame" video on YouTube

📸 Monie Love on Instagram

🐕 Jane's Addiction's website

📸 Peggy Sirota's website

🥃 Los Angeles Times report on Christian Slater's DUI sentencing

🤝 "Queen Latifah On Women Uniting: 'When We Stand Together There Is Nothing More Potent" at Variety

🧺 "The Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop Is The Love Of My Life With Common, Queen Latifah, And Digable Planets" At MXDWN

🏳️‍🌈 "'Happy Pride!': Queen Latifah Thanks Her Partner Eboni During The BET Awards" at Them

🥋 Tara's review of Cobra Kai S06 (Part I) at Cracked

October 1990 Teen Life: Driving Lessons, Alcoholism & Croutons Jul 09, 2024

Show notes

More so than usual, the Teen Life topics of the October 1990 issue are here to help you figure out your life. What might a wise older person tell you about trying to get your driver's license? What jobs are so weird you might actually want to do them? How do you heal from a parent's substance use issues? Then there's Amy, who writes an It Happened To Me about her internship at Mad magazine, not knowing what hangs us all up is her throwaway detail about spending the summer BEFORE that working at a crouton factory, but...did she? Really? Or is she just putting on airs (and seasoning)? Tampon durability, the first Sassiest Boy In America, and more all await you in our latest episode!
QUICK LINKS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website

🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky

📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram

🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES

📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
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TOPICS

🎧 It Is October 1990
🎧 Feature: Getting My Driver’s License? No Sweat.
🎧 Feature: My Alcoholic Father
🎧 Feature: Are These Jobs Weird Enough For You?
🎧 Feature: Ian Is Too Sassy
🎧 Fiction: Mr. Taylor
🎧 Help
🎧 It Happened To Me: Interned at Mad Magazine
🎧 What He Said: Can Guys And Girls Be Just Friends?
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

✍🏻 Illustrator J. Otto Seibold

🚙 Room To Live at Texas Archive

🥃 Al-Anon

🍸 Adult Children Of Alcoholics

🕵🏻‍♀️ Beth Bronner on NNDB

🤳 Bronner on Transplant Village

🏎️ Shannon Eis in the Late Show segment "Dave's Holiday Go-Kart Of Fun!" on YouTube

⛱️ Eis in the Late Show segment "Summer Toys" on YouTube

🎙️ Ian Svenonius on Wikipedia

🎶 The Nation Of Ulysses's début album on YouTube

🚷 "Ian Svenonius Publishes And Deletes Post About Being 'Completely Inappropriate To Women'" on Pitchfork

📸 Svenonius on Instagram

📜 Pamela Christman on Poets & Writers

🎥 Samuel Bayer on Wikipedia

👩‍🏫 A Teacher on Hulu [CW: grooming]

👨🏻‍🏫 The Kids In The Hall sketch "Groovy Teacher" on YouTube

📬 Subscription page for the defunct magazine Mad on the DC website

📖 Mad's October 1986 issue on Scribd

🫥 Tara's list of forgotten 90s sitcoms on Cracked

September 1990 Fashion Etc.: Shoes, Lubriderm & Even More Dutch Boy Jun 25, 2024

Show notes

Shop like a model; dress like an elf!

September 1990 Pop Culture: Movie Sequels, James Marshall & The Hothouse Flowers Jun 11, 2024

Show notes

There's a lot of pop culture in the September 1990 issue that will need revision sooner or later. Like: a report on the cancellation of 21 Jump Street, just weeks before its revival in syndication. And: making James Marshall One To Watch off the strength of one season of Twin Peaks, before he went off the grid. Or: an extensive feature on The Hothouse Flowers, perhaps to justify the expense of whoever paid for Christina to go to Dublin and interview them. And while giving Die Hard 2 a mere 2 stars is, of course, a matter to taste...it's not taste we share. All this and much more awaits you in our latest podcast!
QUICK LINKS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com

🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky

📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram

🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES

📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
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TOPICS

🎧 It Is September 1990
🎧 What Now
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 One To Watch
🎧 Feature: Why The Hothouse Flowers Are My New Favorite Band
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES

🤷‍♀️ The June 1990 Pop Culture episode, containing Christina's middling review of Suzanne Vega's album Days Of Open Hand

🏆 "Eskimo Yoyo Champion" on YouTube

🚔 21 Jump Street on Wikipedia

🕰️ Another 48 Hrs. on Paramount+

🤖 Robocop 2 on Max

✈️ Die Hard 2 on Hulu

👕 James Marshall's Gap ad

⛰️ "Twin Peaks: The Return's James Marshall on David Lynch, Reviving 'Just You,' and Whether His Character Is Actually Cool" at Vulture

📸 @jamesmarshallartist on Instagram

🎞️ Tara's Ron Livingston appreciation at Cracked.com

September 1990 Teen Life: Tricking Boys, Puppy Mills & Painting May 21, 2024

Show notes

The first thing you need to know about this episode is that there was an issue with one of the tracks. It doesn't matter who did what: the result is that Dave had to use a backup to the backup, which means this is going to be a more rough-and-ready version of the podcast than you're used to. We're sorry about that, but hey: it'll be all the more enjoyable when the next episode reaches you with its usual level of polish. MOVING ON: the September issue's Teen Life topics include gangs, puppy mills, and a bedroom painting project your parents are probably never going to let you do. Fortunately, we also get a report from Kim about which boy-meeting strategies worked best at a recent party attended by several eligible Sassy staffers. We'll also touch on braces, veins, a conversion to Islam in RECORD speed, which girls are allowed to dress "provocatively," and an annoyingly brief Stuff You Wrote. Grab your Rollerblades (but put on a helmet first) and join us!
QUICK LINKS
🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky

📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram

🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

🛍️ Shop the LTS Store

JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES

📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!

💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post.

TOPICS

🎧 All the usual stuff except it is all stuck together because of REASONS.
NOTES

👨‍🎨 "Dutch Boy 1991 Television Commercial" on YouTube

🐶 The ASPCA's mini-site on puppy mills [warning: graphic images]

🎨 Maybe or maybe not the Billy Gallo who painted for Karen

💬 Billy Gallo in the November 1988 What He Said

📚 Enid Harlow on GoodReads

🌴 The Again With This podcast

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