Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

We know this issue landed in mid- to late July, but can it ever be too early to start thinking about your back-to-school wardrobe? Sassy invites you to imagine yourself as a Coco Chanel knockoff, an intimidatingly cool biker chick, or a face and a couple of limbs with monochromatic garments laid on top of you. (It'll make sense when you see it.) You can also learn about eye makeup, hair brushes, kilts, and what kind of time Jane had co-starring in R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" video...but wouldn't you rather talk about all the new ADS that helped make this issue the fattest we've seen in months? We sure would! Get out two to four pairs of jeans and listen to 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 StoreJOIN 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🎧 It Is August 1991🎧 Fashion Feature: Sassy’s Very Most Perfect Back To School Clothes Are Art, You Know🎧 Fashion Feature: Hit The Road, Jack🎧 Fashion Feature: Coco A-Go-Go🎧 What Next: Pick A Kilt, Any Kilt🎧 Beauty Feature: The Eye Makeup Encyclopedia🎧 About Face🎧 Sassy Ads🎧 Diary: Your List Of Random Facts About The R.E.M. Shiny Happy People Video🎧 Inside Out: C🎧 Goodbye For NowNOTES📸 Susan Schacter's website🦎 Chris Mazza with lizard eyes👅 "Why We Stick Our Tongue Out When We Concentrate" at Psychology Today🏫 Penns Manor Area Junior/Senior High School🍆 Men Only Want Sex And Their Freedom by Nannette LaRee Hernandez at Kobo💦 Creative Screwing: A Woman's Guide to Becoming An Erotic Enchantress Of Superlustful Sex by Hernandez at Amazon🖼️ Hernandez's official author photo on Amazon😤 Hernandez's antifeminist screed at Writers Cafe📸 Hernandez on Instagram💄 Clarion commercial on YouTube😀 R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" video on YouTube👗 Donna wearing the black daisy dress (with matching headband) on Beverly Hills, 90210🎥 Katherine Dieckmann on Wikipedia🔥 Extra Hot Great 602 (on Love Story)✍️ Tara's author page at Decider

The August 1991 issue has a few pop culture topics to go deep on. Guns 'N Roses gets covered with a What Now concert review AND a review of Danny Sugerman's very pretentious-sounding book about them in the brand-new column Read It (though probably don't; it only earns one pip as the month's book bomb). Paula Abdul gets a bomb review of her new album Spellbound AND name-checked as "Paula Abdrool" in the Keanu Reeves/Alex Winter cover Q&A. Otherwise, we get a lot of material we might like more coverage on, like: Siouxsie And The Banshees' Superstition; Ethan Hawke's Mystery Date hair; Tori Spelling's 18th birthday party; and what Anne L. could not have foreseen would be an incredible revolving door of BulletBoys. You don't need an extra arm à la The Dark Backward to enjoy our commentary on all of the above and more!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 StoreJOIN 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🎧 It Is August 1991🎧 What Now🎧 Read It🎧 Watch It🎧 Listen Up🎧 Ones To Watch🎧 Feature: The Bogus Interview: A Play In One Act🎧 Goodbye For Now🎧 And I'm Tara...NOTES🎂 Tori Spelling and her "Absolut Birthday" cake🎉 More photos from Tori Spelling's 18th birthday at The Daily Mail🌶️ Absolut Pepper magazine ad🐴 Horace Mann School's website🌊 "Andrew Trees: Case Of Terminated Horace Mann Teacher Still Causing Waves" at HNN👹 "Prep-School Predators" in The New York Times Magazine🏫 "The Master" at The New Yorker🤷‍♂️ "Horace Mann Apologizes For Abuse But Won't Start New Inquiry" at The New York Times🎓 "Horace Mann School Admissions Scandal" at Ivy Coach💵 "Elite NYC Prep School Horace Mann Accused Of Letting Tech Honcho Buy Kids' Admission For #1M: Lawsuit" at the New York Post🔬 Gina Rodriguez's "mama lets research" tweet on Twitter📖 The Big Takeover magazine🛹 Blind Skateboards Video Days on YouTube🗡️ Gladiator (1992) on The Roku Channel🎸 Metal-Rules's review of Danny Sugerman's Appetite For Destruction👩‍❤️‍👨 Mystery Date on Hoopla⏪ The Dark Backward on YouTube⭐️ Brenda Starr on The Roku Channel🏃‍♀️ Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush" video on YouTube🥁 BulletBoys on Wikipedia🎙️ "BulletBoys' Marq Torien And Mick Sweda Discuss Original Lineup Reunion And More" on YouTube📺 "The Idiot Box, Episode 1" on YouTube📺 "The Idiot Box, Episode 2" on YouTube⏳ "Waiting For Godot Review - Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Unlikely Reunion" at The Guardian🔥 Extra Hot Great 601

August 1991 is the thickest issue we've had in quite a while, but those extra pages were not set aside for Teen Life topics -- in fact, there isn't even a fiction story! There are, however, Kim's try-out for American Gladiators, Christina's musings on long-distance boyfriend pros and cons, a What He Said on breast size, a quick trip over a bridge (or through a tunnel) to Brooklyn for On The Road, and more. Even the bummer feature -- about polygamist Alex Joseph, his nine wives, and their many many children -- is mostly a curiosity in its day, and only a bummer in retrospect. Not a bummer? Our latest episode, featuring original music cues that WILL get stuck in your heads. Or maybe not. Enjoy!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 StoreJOIN 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🎧 Feature: I, Gladiatrix🎧 Feature: Chronic Long-Distance Boyfriend Distress🎧 Feature: This Cat Has Nine Wives🎧 Feature: 9 Things About America That Make Us Want To Scream And Throw Stuff🎧 Body Talk🎧 What He Said: Does Breast Size Matter?🎧 It Happened To Me: “Fighting Homelessness”🎧 On The Road: Brooklyn, NY🎧 Stuff You Wrote🎧 Goodbye For NowNOTES🤺 "Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin To Host American Gladiators Reboot" at Gladiators TV🧊 Former American Gladiators star Ice on Instagram💍 Alex Joseph on Wikipedia👰🏻‍♀️ "Plural Marriage Was 'Best Offer' Of My Life" by Bo Joseph at The Spectrum🌞 "Can You Get Sunburnt Or UV Skin Damage Through Car Or Home Windows?" at University Of Wollongong Australia🥥 "Jesse 'Shake It Like A White Girl' Jaymes - College Girls" on YouTube💰 Jesse Itzler on Wikipedia⁉️ "Uber Driver Sucked Me Off?!" on Know Your Meme🏚️ National Student Campaign Against Hunger And Homelessness🍕 Fascati Pizza on Yelp🌿 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden📸 "1992 Press Photo Slidell Factory Store Essay Winner Megan Watson In Louisiana" on eBay👊 "Double Fisting Two King & Queen Motorcycle Seats | Custom Seat Work At Atomic Cycle Works" on YouTube🌴 Again With This on Patreon✊ National Day Labor Organizing Network

We're just back from a nearly two-month break. We took two VERY confrontational quizzes ("Are You A News Moron?" and "Are You An Annoyance?"). We...barely remember how to do this, so please enjoy a basically unedited stream of thought conversation on wedgies, Margaret Thatcher, Antarctica, huffing in an unventilated garage, and much much more!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🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com🛍️ Shop the LTS StoreJOIN 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🎧 It Is July 1991🎧 Quiz: Are You A News Moron🎧 Quiz: Are You An Annoyance?🎧 From The Hotline🎧 Goodbye For NowNOTES🕵🏻‍♂️ The Deliberate Stranger DVDs on eBay👔 Tara's piece on Justin Theroux, Corporate Villain at GQ

The hot dogs are sizzling, the fireworks are firing, and July 1991 cover model Rochelle is telling Sassy George Washington never meant shit to her and that HER Independence Day is January 1, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. HELL YEAH! ...There is more to the issue, but it doesn't really compare. One fashion story is in gray; the other is red, white, blue, and American flag print for the holiday Rochelle shan't be celebrating. Sassy also wants to help you lighten up your makeup; turn a t-shirt and a skirt into an ugly and ill-fitting dress; and look ahead to fall -- nooooOOOOO! -- and the plaids and suedes they think you'll be rocking for back to school. Light a firework and listen! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Gray Matters 🎧 Fashion Feature: Burn Baby 🎧 Making It: Dress Yourself 🎧 What Next: Almost Time 🎧 Beauty Feature: Take It Off 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Generally Excellent 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🥕 "I Drank Carrot Juice Every Day For A Month To Get A Tan, And This Is The Result" at Glamour 😴 "Forgotten 90s: Maggie's Dream, 'Love And Tears'" at Medium 📸 Robi Rosa on Instagram ℹ️ Patri Feher on Scannography 🎄 Audubon Park Christmas 2015 at Audubon Park Perspectives 🦉 "John James Audubon's 'Little Screech Owls' from 'The Birds Of America' Holiday ArtCards" on Amazon 💔 "Scorned Lover Charged In Internet High Jinks" at the New Haven Register 🏫 The Harmony School in Bloomington, IN

It's summer, and everyone at Sassy is already too hot to work. Christina admits that What Now is kind of a flop -- she's even a month late mentioning Ian Svenonius's birthday! (It's June 1, in case you also want to mark your calendar for the most important event of the year.) One To Watch Jamie Walters, we can now agree, burned bright in his moment, but that his moment did not last long. And then the staff just foregoes Watch It, Listen Up, AND an entertainment feature, instead assembling an insert full of recommendations for what they're all going to be watching, reading, and doing in the summer of 1991. Which of them do we think you should listen to? Listen to US to find out. 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy 🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude 🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma? 🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11 🎧 Fiction: Serenade 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister? 🎧 On The Road: Cleveland, Ohio 🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🏡 Chapterhouse on Wikipedia 🌎 "The Overpopulation Myth And Its Dangerous Connotations" at The Sierra Club Washington State 🌍 "Beyond 8 Billion" at The Population Institute ⚙️ Simple Machines 👖 Jamie Walters's Levi's TV commercial 🧑‍🚒 "Over The Hills: I Was A Beverly Hills, 90210 Heartthrob And Engaged To An A-List Actress -- But I Gave Up Fame To Become A Firefighter" at The U.S. Sun ⚓️ Odyssey on YouTube 🐤 Adam Hann-Byrd's website 🚇 The International Pop Underground Convention on Wikipedia 🎂 "IPUC At 30!" at Chick Factor 😶 "Words In Your Face" on YouTube 📰 "Words In Your Face" review at the New York Times 💅 Cover Girl NailSlicks in Tawny Peach at Amazon 🎞️ "I Watch Slacker To Read Austin In The Original" at Places Journal 😝 Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha Ha at Woolly Mammoth 🤡 "It's 1:30 AM, And A Clown Wants To Fix You" at the New York Times

The editors use an antique slur (sadly surging back to popularity) to describe a contributor's mentally handicapped sister, but let's not focus on that when the piece -- especially the photos it's built around -- is thoughtful and sensitive. Then, we can move on to why and how to dump a guy; no, taking you to the library isn't one of the reasons, though it does come up. Mike reports from the McDonald's training institute Hamburger University, where the sight of students and instructors actually caring about their careers in customer service alarms his apathetic Gen-X sensibilities. On The Road goes to Cleveland; female staffers' brothers confess the ways they tortured them as kids; a teen mother glosses over a LOT of what Happened To her; and more! You might want fries with this pretty early on, so sort that out before you hit play! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is July 1991 🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy 🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude 🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma? 🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11 🎧 Fiction: Serenade 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister? 🎧 On The Road: Cleveland 🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🍔 "Michael Jordan McDonald's McJordan Commercial 1993" on YouTube 🎓 Hamburger University at The Best Schools 👦 The Boy Crisis at Warren Farrell's website 📰 "The 'Boy Crisis' Is Overblown" at the New York Times 🧠 Underestimated: The Wisdom And Power Of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan at Simon & Schuster ✍️ Seth Kaufman Writer 🗺 Cleveland's Tower City Center 🌊 "Lake Erie Historical" at Cleveland Historical 📹 "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video" on YouTube 🍛 No Kid Hungry

Just in case you haven't already picked out every bathing suit you're going to need for the summer of 1991, Sassy's bringing you one more fashion story on bikinis. Hope you like the way Bronwyn models them because there's very little variation in her poses! The issue also covers vaguely pan-Latin American looks, some kind of fairy tale beauty story, bandana and patchwork-y prints, and how to keep the sun's harmful rays off your precious skin. Sure, a deep tan sounds good now, but someday you'll be in your fifties and VERY aware of sun damage! TRUST US!!! All of this and so very much more awaits 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is June 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Fiesta Forever 🎧 Fashion Feature: When Wet 🎧 What Next: Country Trip 🎧 Beauty Feature: Legend 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It: Protect Your Bod In The Sun 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: One Way To Ask A Guy Out 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🔎 "My dad claims to have made a product. And I need help finding it" in r/find 💃 Leslie Bibb Credits Oprah For Her Big Break After Winning 1990 Modeling Contest That 'Opened Up A Whole World'" at People 📫 "Mail-Order America" at the New York Times 🥪 The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank's food pantry locator

Is "rotted" cooler slang than "rotten"? How "monotone" can Beat Happening's lead vocalist actually be? How does Christina rate the relative cuteness of Aleka's Attic, River Phoenix's band? Has the time come for a Toy Soldiers remake? Is it acceptable to call Winona Ryder "Noni"? These are but a few of the questions we answer in the June 1991 Pop Culture episode. We also have a few about Alek Keshishian, but he...probably shouldn't listen. You, however? You definitely should. 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is June 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Watch It 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: I Saw River Phoenix Brush His Teeth 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Pam 'Beaver' Ribon Is A Lot NOTES 🦠 Girl Germs 3 at the Internet Archive 😷 Girl Germs 4 at the Internet Archive 🍟 Dave's post about McDonald's packaging on Bluesky 🎶 Robert Downey Jr.'s song "Broken" on YouTube 😽 "Cat Lover Billy Corgan Is On The Cover Of 'Paws' Magazine Again" at Exclaim 🎢 Billy Corgan On A Roller Coaster on Instagram 🪖 Toy Soldiers on The Roku Channel 🎨 True Colors on Hoopla 🌱 A Tale Of Springtime on The Criterion Channel 👁️ If Looks Could Kill on Hoopla 👀 If Looks Could Kill on Again With Again With This [paid subscription required] 📹 Alek Keshishian's website 🎻 Aleka's Attic's song "Across The Way" from the PETA benefit album Tame Yourself on YouTube 🎵 Josh McKay on Wikipedia ☔️ Rain Phoenix on Wikipedia 🏠 Aleka's Attic on Wikipedia 🎸 "The Story Of River Phoenix And Aleka's Attic" at Bill DeYoung's website 🤠 Donate to the Central Texas Food Bank

Well, there's no way around it: the very first feature is about Black activism, written by a white author (Kim) who gets no help from her editor on how not to sound tone-deaf as she describes being judged by the color of her skin or feeling unwelcome in Black spaces. So let's quickly dispense with it and move on to the rest. Karen finds three couples to talk about their couplehood. Amy Turner -- who checks in from the present day, because she's Pam's friend IRL -- visits Antarctica. Everyone on staff shares their stress relief tips. Plus: foods that trigger headaches, Danielle from Niagara Falls quoting J.D. Salinger at Stuff You Wrote, Ian Ziering on dating girls his parents didn't like, how atheism Happened to this month's Me, and more! Draw a soothing bath and listen! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is June 1991 🎧 Feature: It’s A Black Thing 🎧 Feature: How To Be A Couple 🎧 Feature: Here It Is: The Last Clean Place On Earth 🎧 Feature: Our 26 Cheap And Effective Ways To Chill Yourself Ou 🎧 Fiction: Plucking Friends 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 What He Said: Would You Go Out With A Girl Your Parents Hated? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 It Happened To Me: Atheist NOTES ⚖️ "Brooklyn Man Convicted In 1989 Murder Of Yusuf Hawkins Will Try To Prove His Innocence" at ABC News 🐧 "How The Number Of Guests Can Affect Your Antarctic Cruise" at Antarctica Travel Centre 💿 John Douglas - CD at Trashcan Sinatras ⛑️ Penguin Cold Caps 🍽️ "The Monster At The Dinner Table" at The Cut

Sassy's May 1991 quiz dares you to determine whether you're a big fat bore...but it could be that this is a more stressful prospect for a teenager than for a middle-aged person who's come to terms with liking TV and Cheetos. After comparing our own results, we move on to some of your latest calls on topics like how a recent vest makeover project worked out in real life, pro tips on Kool-Aid hair dye, gross things the male body is prone to, and much much more. Hit pause on The Doors and listen! 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 🦋 @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 🎧 It Is May 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You A Big Fat Bore? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🏈 Extra Hot Great 582: "Is Chad Powers A Winner?" 🏟️ "Chad Powers Is Way Better Than It Has Any Business Being" at Cracked

School's about to end for summer, and Sassy is ready. It's got plaids for the bocce court. It's got swimsuits for...swimming. It's got tips for changing your hair color with a beverage........again. And it's got tons of historic inspiration if you want to make a BIG change to your look. It's also faking the news a little bit and of COURSE Neill is the offender there. Post up by the pool (indoors if you're not in a tropical zone) to hear about all this and tons more! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is May 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Outside 🎧 Fashion Feature: Blue 🎧 What Next: Don’t Forget To Write 🎧 Beauty Feature: Forties 🎧 About Face 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: Dear Anne B. 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📸 Sandrene Van Slee on Instagram 👖 "Emily Ratajkowski Is The Latest Fan Of The Turned-Down Waistband" at Vogue Australia 👙 Jennie Garth in the blue bikini in Beverly Hills, 90210 👗 "Tulipa Sleeveless Stamp-Print Maxi Dress" at Neiman Marcus 📫 "Old British Postage Stamps Texture A-Line Dress" on Redbubble 📭 "Vintage 90s Womens Design Elements Colorful Postage Stamp Blouse M 6 8 Black" on eBay 👁️ "Kurlash" at Cosmetics And Skin 💋 "Remember Maybelline Kissing Potion & Other Flavored Lip Gloss From The 70s And 80s?" at Click Americana 🎶 1991 MusiCards Blog 👨‍🎨 Philip Burke on Instagram 🐻 Fat Bear Week at Explore

Pam is on assignment, but Dave and Tara are bravely carrying on without her. What Now brings us such items as the first news blurb Tara probably ever saw about the Texas mom who came up with a murder-for-hire scheme to advance her 13-year-old daughter's cheerleading career to the 1,000,000th update on reigning Sassiest Boy In America Ian Svenonius (LET IT END). Jane admits she can't be objective about R.E.M. generally and Out Of Time specifically, but at least she's right! The Doors is a five-dot pick we're dubious about; Paris Is Burning deserves not just the five dots it also gets but 10! 10! 10s across the board! Finally, we close on whether John Leguizamo proved to be One To Watch, and what associations we still have for Balthazar Getty beyond being an oil heir. If YOUR heroes have always been cowboys, you MUST listen. 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is May 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 Watch It 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: Balthazar Getty Contemplates The Whole Teen Idol Thing 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES ✌️ "How The V-Sign Came To Represent Victory, Then Peace" at the History Channel 📰 "Former ACLU Leader Ira Glasser Slams Organization's 'Progressive' New Agenda" at the New York Post 🗯️ "Free Speech Has Limits Because Speech Can Cause Harm" at the Online Hate Prevention Institute 💥 "Gloria Estefan On How A Life-Changing Accident Sparked A $42 Million Mission To Cure Paralysis" at CBS News 🥖 Paris Is Burning on HBO Max 🧊 "John Leguizamo Calls Dean Cain A 'Moron' For Joining ICE: 'What Kind Of Loser Volunteers' For That?" at Variety 🤠 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys on PlutoTV 🥱 "Charlie Sheen Was Never That Interesting" at Cracked

It's May 1991, and Sassy knows exactly what your mom wants most for Mother's Day: you following her around the house quoting statistics about how bad school sucks in this country! When she tells you to give it a rest, you can learn about Kim Frey, a young woman living with HIV, or why you should consider making friends with boys. (It's not because they have amazing answers to the What He Said question about what they'd do if they were invisible, that's for sure.) Also: hay fever, plants, vitamins, deodorant, and more than you ever wanted to know about breast discharge! You're welcome!!! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is May 1991 🎧 Feature: How This Girl Lives With The AIDS Virus 🎧 Feature: She Says Guys Make Better Friends 🎧 Feature: You Spill It About Your Schools 🎧 Fiction: The Real World 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: El Paso, TX 🎧 What He Said: What Would You Do If You Were Invisible? 🎧 Help 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Doxx Everything 🎧 I Don't Remember Why I Did This NOTES 📝 Buy Pam's book Notes To Boys on Bookshop 📸 Kim Frey's press photo on eBay 📔 Kim Bergalis's People cover 🪦 "The Angry Death Of Kimberly Bergalis" at Slate 🧛🏻 "How 'Vampire Facials' Infected Three Women With HIV" at BBC 💔 "First Love, Fatal Love" on Letterboxd 💓 "First Love, Fatal Love" mentioned in "'Lost'...And Found At The Library Of Congress" at Library Of Congress Blogs 👵🏻 Jeff Hiller's Actress Of A Certain Age at Simon & Schuster 👩🏼‍💻 Sharon Solwitz's website 💦 Notice about the cessation of marketing of PPA at DEA Diversion 💊 "Can You Get Diet Pill With Phenylpropanolamine In Europe?" at Womens Diet And Fitness 🏫 Coronado High School at Great Schools 🌮 "Iconic El Paso Restaurant Closes - Jaxon's Gone Forever" at Kiss El Paso 😥 "Fact Or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Do More Than Block Sweat" at Scientific American 🧠 "Does Aluminum Cause Alzheimer's?" at Healthline 📉 Meghann Lacko Kaplan on LinkedIn

With Pam out handling a family emergency (everything's okay now!), Dave and Tara bravely handle the Slumber Party on their own. After sharing their results from the "Are You Parent-Tolerant?" quiz, it's on to your calls: one serious one about Pam's massage story, then a lot of silly ones about: other places spooge has unexpectedly appeared; what to try if your nails are weak; that vulnerable feeling when you're wearing a romper and have to pee; and a TRULY horrifying tale of a restaurant trip gone awry. Prepare for an emotional roller coaster -- FOR REAL. 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 🦋 @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 🎧 It Is April 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You Parent-Tolerant 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now

It's spring...but summer is just around the corner. Start dressing for summer in holiday-ready gingham and all white eyelet everything! We get a moment-by-moment report on the process of shooting a Sassy cover, starting with the model's birth. (No: seriously.) The staff is trying tights, ruining a scarf, moving offices, and so much more. Pull up your bloomers and listen! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is April 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: Wish You Were Here 🎧 Fashion Feature: Wearing Air 🎧 What Next 🎧 We Wear It 🎧 Making It: Build A Better Vest 🎧 Beauty Feature: Why This Face? 🎧 About Face 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary: New! New! New! 🎧 Say What 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 🫟 Amy Sedaris's gingham guest room on Instagram ⛵️ Fantasy Lake Adventure Park 🧥 "Vintage Globe Men 34 NIOMEX Firefighter 2 In 1 Jacket Black Yellow Collar COAT" on eBay 🧑‍🚒 "Vintage Japanese Firechief Kimono with Belt Firefighter Black Red White" on eBay 🥾 "Women's National Park Chelsea Rain Boots" at Pendleton 🦵 DKNY Women's Opaque Coverage Control Top tights on Amazon 🪒 "Vintage Schick Personal Touch Razor With Deluxe Case New" on eBay 🧴 Le Lift Fluide at Chanel 🟤 Blake Brown Beauty ☀️ "1990 Sun In Hair 'With Silkenol' TV Commercial" on YouTube 🏢 "The History Of The Helmsley Building" at CitySignal 🕸️ Marjorie Ingall's website 🦋 Marjorie Ingall on Bluesky

Whose voice is described in this month's Listen Up as "vomity"? It's sure not Sting because Catherine CANNOT be objective about him. It's also not Debbie Gibson protégé Chris Cuevas, though we do have a lot of opinions about the little photo of him we get in What Now. We also discuss whether L.A. Story is still worth seeing and whether it includes a baby in a basket on the side of the freeway; rate the tracks on R.E.M.'s Out Of Time; and wonder whether Christina's piece on why going backstage at a rock show sucks is actually just a huge humblebrag. Give a big David Lee Roth-style scream: it's the April 1991 Pop Culture 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is April 1991 🎧 What Now 🎧 Listen Up 🎧 One To Watch 🎧 Feature: I Hate Going Backstage 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Go Ahead NOTES 📅 Chris Cuevas and Debbie Gibson's "Someday" on YouTube 📓 The February 1991 Seventeen cover 💄 "Going For That Sassy Touch" from The Olympian at Newspapers 😎 "Why Is Olympia So Cool And Countercultural?" at r/olympia 🍯 R.E.M.'s "Me In Honey" on Spotify 🪦 Ray Davis on KeyWiki 💥 "Catastrophe" at Reb Jeff 🍑 The Dharma Bums in the 21st century 🥾 Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots" on YouTube 🛌 Susanna Hoffs's "My Side Of The Bed" on YouTube 💀 "Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies At 73" on Variety 🫎 "'Northern Exposure' Revival With Rob Morrow In The Works At CBS" at The Hollywood Reporter 📸 Darren E. Burrows on Instagram 🧶 Darren E. Burrows on Etsy 🎸 "Soundgarden 1990-1991 All Access Tour Laminate Backstage Pass!" on eBay

The April 1991 issue lulls you into a false sense of complacency by burying its biggest bummer feature in the middle of the island, but then there it is: "They're Shooting Horses." DAMN, KAREN! (Spoiler: this is a problem the U.S. government still hasn't solved -- hope you were sitting down to read this.) Around it, we get Christina's embedded report from a Black debutante ball in Georgia; Margie's mini-profiles of 5 people in cool and important jobs, What He Said about dating an unpopular girl, It Happened To Me from a conflicted breast-reduction surgery patient, and a lot more. Content warning for the fiction story: it's about a girl with the OLDEST MOM IN RECORDED HISTORY -- 60!!!!! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is April 1991 🎧 Feature: Inside A Black Debutante Ball 🎧 Feature: They’re Shooting Horses 🎧 Feature: 5 Jobs That Aren’t Lame 🎧 Fiction: Sixteen To Sixty 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 On The Road: Baltimore 🎧 What He Said: Would You Date A Girl Less Popular Than You? 🎧 Help + Help For Him 🎧 It Happened To Me: Boobs 🎧 Stuff You Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 📆 The Wonder Years (2021) "Lads And Ladies And Us" at Fandom 💬 "Rough Draft" quote at QuoteFancy 🪧 "Rough Draft" banner on eBay 🐴 Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy 🐎 "US Judge In Nevada Hands Wild Horse Advocates Rare Victory In Ruling On Mustang Management Plans" at the AP 👧🏻 Citizen's Committee for Children of New York 🤝 "NYANA To Close After Long Run Here" at Jewish Telegraphic Agency ☮️ PeaceAction 📚 Enid Harlow's new story collection Voices at Livingston Press 🤧 "How Fast Is A Sneeze Versus A Cough?" at Each Breath from the American Lung Association 👙 Title 9 ⛴️ "A Tour Of Baltimore's Inner Harbor" 👕 "Best Vintage & Thrift Stores In Baltimore" 🤕 "Top 15 Misconceptions Of Self-Injury" at Cornell 🔨 Leonid Brezhnev at Alpha History 🤨 George Whipple

Are you a techno head? In 1991, that meant "Do you know how a computer works?" but also possibly "Can you drive stick?" This quiz is trouble and we've got objections. We've got NO objections to your latest calls about The Grateful Dead, looking like Ben Seaver, The Bridge On The River Kwai, and (of course) cuticles. March on in and listen! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is March 1991 🎧 Quiz: Are You A Techno Head? 🎧 From The Hotline 🎧 Goodbye For Now NOTES 💦 "How I Might Have Just Become The Newest Urban Legend" at Pam's blog 🌴 Again With This Club campaign

It's March, and that means it's time to start morbidly obsessing on prom, up to and including having a dress rehearsal five days out. All the frippery that fills the special pull-out prom insert feels very un-Sassy, so we hope sponsor Tampax at least paid a truckload of money for both that and a half-reassuring, half-fear mongering insert about periods. (No, your tampon can't get lost inside you...but then again why would they even bring it up unless MAYBE IT COULD?!) Elsewhere, there are tips on nail care, a creative/non-dirty use for an odd sock, photos from Sassy's third birthday party, and more! Put on your pastelliest formalwear and listen! 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 🚫 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 🎧 It Is March 1991 🎧 Fashion Feature: All In One 🎧 Fashion Insert: How To Have A Sassy Prom 🎧 About Face 🎧 We Try It 🎧 Zits And Stuff 🎧 Sassy Ads 🎧 Diary 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Crossroads NOTES 🧥 Website for Monic Richard, who shot "All In One" 🍌 "This List Of Period-Related Food Myths Is Straight-Up Bananas" at TheKitchn 🩸 Starter Kit For Using Tampons at TinaHealthCare 🌽 "CALS Student Laura Croal Serves On Panel With Vice President Gore" at University Of Wisconsin Madison's College Of Agricultural & Life Sciences News 👄 Tara's review of Big Mouth S08 at Cracked 🫦 Tara's interview with Big Mouth co-creators Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, and Mark Levin at Cracked