If I wasn’t from Jamaica, then why would I be wearing this hat? ~from “Half-Baked”
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- This, um, says it all
People ask me sometimes why I usually write about the ’80s and not the ’90s. It’s because I think of the ’90s as one long stretch of excrutiating pain occasionally interrupted by moments of slightly lesser pain. I guarantee you probably would too if you went to high school during those years. The ’80s, on the other hand, are a kind of glorious set of halcyon days I can remember with great warm, fuzzy, gushing fondness. They were the years without puberty, grunge music, and the Macarena.
But I’m turning a new eye toward the Decade of Clinton recently. Was it all really as horrible as I remember? I’ve been out of high school 15 years now and the pain is finally beginning to ebb, the scars to heal (the Macarena ones, at least.) I’ve come to the conclusion that there were some really good things about the ’90s along with the horrendous.
I’m trying something a little new today: a blog entry mostly in pictures. If you guys like it, great, I’ll be doing more. If not, well, we’ll consign it to the recycle bins of history. Like…the Macarena.
I give you: the pop culture of the 90s, as I remember them. See how many you remember too, my fellow Gen X Rangers. You may now all unscrew your complimentary mini-bottles of Jaegermeister and put on your 3-D glasses if you want to see any of this in 3-D.
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But you know what?
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Big news flash: Leading up to the Oscars on Feb. 26, I’ll be posting a special 3-part project called “33 Films, 33 Years” covering a favorite film of mine for each of my 33 years. Cool, huh? If you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them. (I’d also like to know if I’m the only one who had a love/hate relationship with the ’90s, so keep that feedback coming.)
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