Tag Archives: 1990s

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is spectacular.

I know there are more important things in the world to discuss right now, but let’s do this. The amount of smoking that takes place in this movie, which is basically a comedy for kids, is actually impressive. There is lite gun play [“The dishes are done, man!] Everybody has straight up yellow teeth (probably […]

25 Vintage Maine Video Clips

Featuring but not limited to:- LL Cool J at Colby in 1985 ACT UP acting up Reenactment of a fatal clown heart attack Reenactment of boy getting tongue stuck in a canteen Mustachioed Karate students Late 80s teen bodybuilding competition Fingers in the Oakhurst cream cheese Tim Sample being awesome Introspective Rob Caldwell … and […]

Every mid-to-late 90s point of reference in Can’t Hardly Wait

Last night I watched Aguirre, Wrath of God, tonight I watched Can’t Hardly Wait. Aguirre is clearly the superior film, but having come of age in the late 90s, Hardly strikes a few more chords than I’d like to admit. From Lauren Ambrose’s hair to Seth Green’s inspired performance as a white kid who desperately […]

“I’m King of the Mall” or: Confessions of a Teenage Mall Rat

Sometime in my later teenage years, my elderly father told me that he enjoyed sitting on the benches in the mall and just watching young people be young. He appreciated our energy and liked sitting and letting it wash over him. I understood this more than he figured I did. I enjoyed going there largely […]

Donna Martin Graduates: The Nineteen Nineties, tangentially

WARNING: Some of the language / links below are not safe for work, younger folks, or sensitive people. None of it is really that bad but if I don’t point this out, some people get emotional and write thousand-word emails to my bosses. NOTE: Lines separated by a slash or a word that is not […]