i lied
Wednesday, November 10, 1999 | 03:22 p.m.
This guy definitely remembers Kidd Video far better than I do, including the insane fact that Robbie Rist was one of the characters. Robbie Rist??! Cousin Oliver?? Hello? This show also seems to have killed the careers of everyone involved with it, unless you count being a "party guest" in Some Kind of Wonderful as success.

Collecting Rave Flyers
Wednesday, November 10, 1999 | 02:24 p.m.
Personally I'd take a cut-n-paste punk show flyer any day over a die-cut psychadelic anime girl wearing platform shoes, but that's just me.

The Bluffer's Guide to Teen Movies
Wednesday, November 10, 1999 | 01:46 p.m.
I ran an extremely cheesy website for about three years called "Alice's Ultimate Guide to Classic 80's Teen Movies". Dig that catchy title. I got good and sick of it well before the 90's teen movie boom hit, but I still love the teen films. So do these British guys, who have put together a frighteningly comprehensive guide to just about every crappy 80's movie you ever saw. There are full reviews of about 30 movies and capsule reviews of at least 150 more. Although I don't agree with all their assessments, especially their panning of the masterpiece Dazed and Confused, this is highly entertaining work (especially since they mention Kidd Video, a staple of my Saturday morning cartoon lineup and sadly forgotten by everyone).

Hrm
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 | 10:25 p.m.
There are several problems with this. The first is that it is called art. The second is that I can't figure out if it's supposed to be bad. At least these people are honest.

Free Beauty Goop
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 | 10:13 p.m.
From Drugstore.com. "From Oprah to Gwyneth to the pages of People magazine, philosophy is the company everyone's talking about!" Whatever, it might impress your sister or something. Buy a $4 bottle of Advil and start your Hanukkah shopping early.

I also saw a scary commercial for more.com while watching Buffy tonight- apparently they're desperate to build a big consumer base and are offering fixed prices for life and free shipping for life on everything. Ah yes, but do they require a prescription for Valium?

Thrift Score
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 | 09:39 p.m.
I have been a serious thrifter since I was 11. Al Hoff has been writing Thrift Score for several years, and it has won my heart and become my favorite zine. She inspires me to drive for an hour so I can pick up a Hamburglar glass for ten cents or a fake fur pink bathrobe for three fifty. However, my real reason for thrifting is to find cheap books. I read way too much and so in order to curb my hefty Elliott Bay addiction, I thrift books.

Recently, though, I've been buying basically one kind of book: teen novels and weird celebrity books targeted at teenagers. My passion is novelizations of 70's and 80's teen movies and television shows, but I'll take any cheesy teen bio or advice book, and my Paula Danziger and Judy Blumes are taking up a whole shelf. Two weeks ago, though, I found the crown jewel of my collection: the original Cameron Crowe-penned Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I got it for $1.25. Check out the current price on Alibris.

By the way, Judy's got some interesting stuff at her eponymous. Check out her experiences with censors and the NYT op-ed she wrote about my beloved Harry Potter.

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 | 09:28 p.m.
This is seriously amazing. An archive of manifestos, articles, photo pieces, and documents from the second wave of the women's movement (1969-1974) The writing here was all self-published in Movement periodicals, pamphlets, fliers and and it ranges from theoretical pieces to the Bitch Manifesto to the uber-cut-and-paste What sort of Man reads playboy?" collage. I was amazed by how this all precursored early 90 s Riot Grrrl culture by about twenty years.