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"content": "\u003cp>Beginning at age 11, I wrote to my older self and this continued all through high school, letters from me age 14 to me age 30 and so on. It’s always sweet and strange to open these mysterious missives to see who I was. Dreams, psychic attempts, gossip and lists of what was currently cool fill the pages. Though she was a tad melodramatic, I've always felt a kinship with my teenage self. In fact I’m convinced a significant part of me still is 14 (maybe 17 when I’m feeling sophisticated). I’m curious about how our tastes develop over time, how they’re born and how they form us. It turns out that many of the interests and discoveries that illuminated my 14-year-old life still illuminate my 34-year-old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 583px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/meee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2470\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2470 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg\" alt=\"Me at 14 v. Me at 34. Believe it or not there was a decade where my hair was other colors and lengths and I never wore flannel.\" width=\"583\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at 14 vs. Me at 34. I promise there was more than decade where my hair was different and I never wore flannel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up out in the woods pre-Internet there was nothing quite like the discovery of music, books, art, or fashion that I loved, hence my proclivity toward the cool lists. With non-traditional, artistic parents there wasn't much to rebel against. I was encouraged to express myself however I wanted and sometimes made to watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx4IlppSgU\">Joseph Campbell videos\u003c/a>. I vividly remember ripping holes in my stockings the summer between 8th and 9th grade but I’m not entirely sure where the inspiration came from. I was happily sent home from school once for an outfit deemed too “distracting” (violet slip, green vintage t-shirt, platform sandals) and it was early on that my love for scouring thrift stores, wearing giant jewelry and creating outfits with flourishes such as my dad’s blue coveralls was born. Each new find I made was a message in a bottle from the outside world. They were hints at the place I was one day going to get to and proof that I was compatible with it. \u003ca href=\"http://tropicsofmeta.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bikinikillkathleenhannaslut.gif\">Riot Grrrls\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/heathers4.jpg\">\u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Wat_is_Dada_%3F_cover.jpg\">Dadaism\u003c/a>! The clues were everywhere, in episodes of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.badlands-blog.com/2010/09/clare-danes-as-angela-chase-in-my-so.html\">My So-Called Life\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in the pages of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/SassymagCover.jpg\">Sassy\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in\u003cem> \u003c/em>drives to D.C. for band t-shirts, baby doll dresses, artsy movies, museums and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/arlib/7024954027/in/photostream/\">Indie Rock Flea Market\u003c/a>. Something thrilling was occurring in my gathering of these interests, no less than the formation of an identity being built consciously and unconsciously. My current self is beholden to these influences in inextricable, enigmatic ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/items/159.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2496\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2496 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg\" alt=\"Tuscadero was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOeEv9JzVOY\">Tuscadero\u003c/a> was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party where all hearts were open wide, where all wines kept flowing,\"\u003c/em> Arthur Rimbaud writes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19836\">\u003cem>A Season In Hell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. In high school this slim golden volume that I only half understood was suggested to me by a cute older boy who not only was in college but went to \u003cem>art school\u003c/em>. Rimbaud was a 19-year-old French free-verse poet whose bio includes adjectives like\u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1268\"> volatile and peripatetic\u003c/a>. The whole experience blew my mind on several levels. A boy suggesting a book meant the thoughts therein were ones we’d both looked at and read and therefore shared somehow and I realized for the first time how intimacy could be created through ideas\u003cem>.\u003c/em> It was a revelation in the sexiness of words that I've never forgotten and it influences everything from my text messages to my short stories to how my thoughts even work. The idea that this type of poetic expression was a life or death thing, a way to live and consider life all at once, meant everything to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 627px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/rimbaud-and-sylvia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2476\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2476 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur & Sylvia\" width=\"627\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia.jpg 1936w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur & Sylvia\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there was \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/363092/sylvia-plaths-the-bell-jar-a-visual-history\">\u003cem>The Bell Jar\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/sylviaplath/1416\">Sylvia Plath\u003c/a>, discovered by way of my 9\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade fascination with women writers who’d killed themselves. \u003cem>The Bell Jar\u003c/em> contains sentiments that both my 14 and 34-year-old self deeply appreciate, such as, \u003cem>“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”\u003c/em> Though the book is clearly full of despair, lines like that feel freeing too because of the power in Plath's language that wrestles with despair. \u003cem>The Bell Jar \u003c/em>was a reading experience beyond simply relating to the voice and more like having something directly injected into my psyche. In Maggie Nelson’s incredible, paradigm-shifting collection of essays \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-the-art-of-cruelty-by-maggie-nelson.html?pagewanted=all\">\u003cem>The Art of Cruelty\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Plath is addressed in-depth. Nelson says she can’t help but wish we could all read the writing of an older Plath and I agree. It’s profound to consider how our concerns, understandings and preoccupations shift as we age, and it would have been fascinating to see them shift in her. Among many reasons why, she might have given our own shifts more clarity and because the only thing as fascinating as what remains the same in us is what changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One significant activity that filled my days as a teenager was zine making. For years I dutifully created \u003cem>Confessions of a Doorknob Queen\u003c/em> (I forget the title's origin, I think I was fascinated by locks) and sold it at local music stores. It contained lyrics from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXzxYVeI0wc\">The Cure\u003c/a>, poetry obviously, \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15297\">Anne Sexton\u003c/a> lines, concert tickets and sketches of boys I had crushes on. Zine-making is still going strong, somewhat undeterred by the ubiquitous power of the screen (or perhaps invigorated by it). There’s also, of course, the overall trend toward the handmade, including \u003ca href=\"http://sfcb.org/\">book art and bookmaking\u003c/a>. My sometimes panicked deleting of Instagram off my phone must be the result of my old school affinity for scotch tape, staples, my manual camera and ripping up all my books and magazines. Nothing makes me feel better than ripping images out of a magazine and taping them on a piece of paper. The tangible and analogue are therapeutic because they remind me of my days spent collaging my bedroom walls and making music videos in the fields. I do appreciate things like \u003ca href=\"http://rookiemag.com/\">\u003cem>Rookie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sadiemagazine.com/\">Sadie\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>zine-like in spirit even though they’re online, and which my teenage self would've totally devoured had the Internet been around. Locally there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.needles-pens.com/\">Needles & Pens\u003c/a> (my high school and current self’s dream store) who carry zines and other ephemera, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfzinefest.org/\">SF Zine Festival\u003c/a>, where if I ever get my act together, I plan to one day unveil my collaborative zine project \u003cem>Future Circa\u003c/em> (you know who you are, collaborator) which will make my 14-year-old-self proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 486px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/zine/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2473\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2473 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine.png\" alt=\"Title Page of Confessions of a Doorknob Queen-1996\" width=\"486\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine-400x613.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine-800x1226.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title Page of \u003cem>Confessions of a Doorknob\u003c/em> Queen- circa 1996\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than any one band (well, maybe \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhHPl_oCmU\">The Pixies\u003c/a>) it’s the love of \u003cem>finding\u003c/em> music that I share with my young self (though she had a higher tendency to write lyrics on her t-shirts in marker); the act of reading, going to shows, sharing new discoveries and of course, listening. Listening when I’m working, when I’m writing, when I’m walking; music informs and punctuates every activity and always has. I remember sitting in the film center my freshman year of college when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks\">Fugazi’s \u003cem>Waiting Room\u003c/em>\u003c/a> started playing. In my unsettled, homesick state it felt like my familiarity and attachment to that song was a mirror, a vital part of me, a wild perfect remedy of some sort. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm\">Science confirms\u003c/a> how literally music is tied into our memories and life stories and I'm not surprised. More than one of my early romances hinged on a shared love of certain bands (my knowledge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3L_NCZk4s\">Jawbox \u003c/a>is totally responsible for my first college kiss). With the advent of music blogs and Spotify this musical search has become easier and different of course, but it still contains the spirit of the scavenger hunt and I still love it. I have Spotify to thank for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyZXglIPQ8\">Lust For Youth\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t01dYTecfS8\">Gazelle Twin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sng_CdAAw8M\">Rhye\u003c/a> among a zillion others. My 14-year-old self would have lost her mind over Spotify (for inspiration I’ve been listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug8C4KcGfQ\">Bratmobile \u003c/a>while writing this article). When I was in high school I made mixed tapes and titled the two sides things like \u003cstrong>Slut Side\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Virgin Side\u003c/strong>. In the spirit of those days, I now title my Spotify playlists as if they have two sides (\u003cstrong>Doomed\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Saved\u003c/strong>!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/mixed-tape/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2477\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mixed-tape.jpg\" alt=\"mixed tape\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mixed-tape.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mixed-tape-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searching, openness, magic and attention it takes to find what you love is so fun, serendipitous and rewarding. The word of mouth, the overheard song, the opening band, how one thing you love is\u003ca href=\"http://www.othervoices.org/1.2/cornell/cornellduchamp.php\"> connected\u003c/a> to another, how \u003ca href=\"http://therumpus.net/2012/09/the-sunday-rumpus-interview-junot-diaz/\">one author you like\u003c/a> talks about \u003ca href=\"http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/stray-questions-for-paul-yoon/\">an author he likes\u003c/a>, how through these things we continually decide, \u003cem>I am \u003ca href=\"http://www.deitch.com/projects/slide_pop.php?imageId=2157&name=Clare%20Rojas\">this\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ocbarrios.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/marcel_dzama_untitled_2003_318_42-820x1024.jpg\">this\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://formenteragirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jenny-holzer.jpg\">this\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Beginning at age 11, I wrote to my older self and this continued all through high school, letters from me age 14 to me age 30 and so on. It’s always sweet and strange to open these mysterious missives to see who I was. Dreams, psychic attempts, gossip and lists of what was currently cool fill the pages. Though she was a tad melodramatic, I've always felt a kinship with my teenage self. In fact I’m convinced a significant part of me still is 14 (maybe 17 when I’m feeling sophisticated). I’m curious about how our tastes develop over time, how they’re born and how they form us. It turns out that many of the interests and discoveries that illuminated my 14-year-old life still illuminate my 34-year-old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 583px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/meee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2470\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2470 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg\" alt=\"Me at 14 v. Me at 34. Believe it or not there was a decade where my hair was other colors and lengths and I never wore flannel.\" width=\"583\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/meee-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me at 14 vs. Me at 34. I promise there was more than decade where my hair was different and I never wore flannel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up out in the woods pre-Internet there was nothing quite like the discovery of music, books, art, or fashion that I loved, hence my proclivity toward the cool lists. With non-traditional, artistic parents there wasn't much to rebel against. I was encouraged to express myself however I wanted and sometimes made to watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx4IlppSgU\">Joseph Campbell videos\u003c/a>. I vividly remember ripping holes in my stockings the summer between 8th and 9th grade but I’m not entirely sure where the inspiration came from. I was happily sent home from school once for an outfit deemed too “distracting” (violet slip, green vintage t-shirt, platform sandals) and it was early on that my love for scouring thrift stores, wearing giant jewelry and creating outfits with flourishes such as my dad’s blue coveralls was born. 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The clues were everywhere, in episodes of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.badlands-blog.com/2010/09/clare-danes-as-angela-chase-in-my-so.html\">My So-Called Life\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in the pages of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/SassymagCover.jpg\">Sassy\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in\u003cem> \u003c/em>drives to D.C. for band t-shirts, baby doll dresses, artsy movies, museums and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/arlib/7024954027/in/photostream/\">Indie Rock Flea Market\u003c/a>. Something thrilling was occurring in my gathering of these interests, no less than the formation of an identity being built consciously and unconsciously. My current self is beholden to these influences in inextricable, enigmatic ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/items/159.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2496\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2496 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg\" alt=\"Tuscadero was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tuscadero-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOeEv9JzVOY\">Tuscadero\u003c/a> was one of many awesome things about the Indie Rock Flea Market. Others included red vintage shoes (not pictured) that I took with me to college.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party where all hearts were open wide, where all wines kept flowing,\"\u003c/em> Arthur Rimbaud writes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19836\">\u003cem>A Season In Hell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. In high school this slim golden volume that I only half understood was suggested to me by a cute older boy who not only was in college but went to \u003cem>art school\u003c/em>. Rimbaud was a 19-year-old French free-verse poet whose bio includes adjectives like\u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1268\"> volatile and peripatetic\u003c/a>. The whole experience blew my mind on several levels. A boy suggesting a book meant the thoughts therein were ones we’d both looked at and read and therefore shared somehow and I realized for the first time how intimacy could be created through ideas\u003cem>.\u003c/em> It was a revelation in the sexiness of words that I've never forgotten and it influences everything from my text messages to my short stories to how my thoughts even work. The idea that this type of poetic expression was a life or death thing, a way to live and consider life all at once, meant everything to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 627px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/rimbaud-and-sylvia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2476\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2476 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur & Sylvia\" width=\"627\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia.jpg 1936w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/rimbaud-and-sylvia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur & Sylvia\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there was \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/363092/sylvia-plaths-the-bell-jar-a-visual-history\">\u003cem>The Bell Jar\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/sylviaplath/1416\">Sylvia Plath\u003c/a>, discovered by way of my 9\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade fascination with women writers who’d killed themselves. \u003cem>The Bell Jar\u003c/em> contains sentiments that both my 14 and 34-year-old self deeply appreciate, such as, \u003cem>“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”\u003c/em> Though the book is clearly full of despair, lines like that feel freeing too because of the power in Plath's language that wrestles with despair. \u003cem>The Bell Jar \u003c/em>was a reading experience beyond simply relating to the voice and more like having something directly injected into my psyche. In Maggie Nelson’s incredible, paradigm-shifting collection of essays \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/books/review/book-review-the-art-of-cruelty-by-maggie-nelson.html?pagewanted=all\">\u003cem>The Art of Cruelty\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Plath is addressed in-depth. Nelson says she can’t help but wish we could all read the writing of an older Plath and I agree. It’s profound to consider how our concerns, understandings and preoccupations shift as we age, and it would have been fascinating to see them shift in her. Among many reasons why, she might have given our own shifts more clarity and because the only thing as fascinating as what remains the same in us is what changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One significant activity that filled my days as a teenager was zine making. For years I dutifully created \u003cem>Confessions of a Doorknob Queen\u003c/em> (I forget the title's origin, I think I was fascinated by locks) and sold it at local music stores. It contained lyrics from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXzxYVeI0wc\">The Cure\u003c/a>, poetry obviously, \u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15297\">Anne Sexton\u003c/a> lines, concert tickets and sketches of boys I had crushes on. Zine-making is still going strong, somewhat undeterred by the ubiquitous power of the screen (or perhaps invigorated by it). There’s also, of course, the overall trend toward the handmade, including \u003ca href=\"http://sfcb.org/\">book art and bookmaking\u003c/a>. My sometimes panicked deleting of Instagram off my phone must be the result of my old school affinity for scotch tape, staples, my manual camera and ripping up all my books and magazines. Nothing makes me feel better than ripping images out of a magazine and taping them on a piece of paper. The tangible and analogue are therapeutic because they remind me of my days spent collaging my bedroom walls and making music videos in the fields. I do appreciate things like \u003ca href=\"http://rookiemag.com/\">\u003cem>Rookie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sadiemagazine.com/\">Sadie\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>zine-like in spirit even though they’re online, and which my teenage self would've totally devoured had the Internet been around. Locally there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.needles-pens.com/\">Needles & Pens\u003c/a> (my high school and current self’s dream store) who carry zines and other ephemera, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfzinefest.org/\">SF Zine Festival\u003c/a>, where if I ever get my act together, I plan to one day unveil my collaborative zine project \u003cem>Future Circa\u003c/em> (you know who you are, collaborator) which will make my 14-year-old-self proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 486px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/14/letters-from-my-teenage-self/zine/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2473\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2473 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine.png\" alt=\"Title Page of Confessions of a Doorknob Queen-1996\" width=\"486\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine-400x613.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/zine-800x1226.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title Page of \u003cem>Confessions of a Doorknob\u003c/em> Queen- circa 1996\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than any one band (well, maybe \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhHPl_oCmU\">The Pixies\u003c/a>) it’s the love of \u003cem>finding\u003c/em> music that I share with my young self (though she had a higher tendency to write lyrics on her t-shirts in marker); the act of reading, going to shows, sharing new discoveries and of course, listening. Listening when I’m working, when I’m writing, when I’m walking; music informs and punctuates every activity and always has. I remember sitting in the film center my freshman year of college when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks\">Fugazi’s \u003cem>Waiting Room\u003c/em>\u003c/a> started playing. In my unsettled, homesick state it felt like my familiarity and attachment to that song was a mirror, a vital part of me, a wild perfect remedy of some sort. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm\">Science confirms\u003c/a> how literally music is tied into our memories and life stories and I'm not surprised. More than one of my early romances hinged on a shared love of certain bands (my knowledge of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3L_NCZk4s\">Jawbox \u003c/a>is totally responsible for my first college kiss). With the advent of music blogs and Spotify this musical search has become easier and different of course, but it still contains the spirit of the scavenger hunt and I still love it. I have Spotify to thank for \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyZXglIPQ8\">Lust For Youth\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t01dYTecfS8\">Gazelle Twin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sng_CdAAw8M\">Rhye\u003c/a> among a zillion others. My 14-year-old self would have lost her mind over Spotify (for inspiration I’ve been listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug8C4KcGfQ\">Bratmobile \u003c/a>while writing this article). When I was in high school I made mixed tapes and titled the two sides things like \u003cstrong>Slut Side\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Virgin Side\u003c/strong>. 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"disqusTitle": "A Completely Subjective History of Girl Culture",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2374\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 271px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2374\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\" width=\"271\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg 584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>A Girl Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls are having a moment. A Girl Renaissance, filled with frumpy young girl directors singing their autobiographical swan songs like Lena Dunham and Miranda July,\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15\" width=\"185\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png 185w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM-160x226.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15 \u003ccite>(Instagram/@tavitulle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>doe-eyed, gray-haired ingenue Tavi Gevinson taking street style blogging and turning it into an \u003ca title=\"Empire\" href=\"http://rookiemag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empire\u003c/a>, those girl-women of SNL fame writing pee-your-pants movies and TV shows like Kristen Wiig's \u003cem>Bridesmaids\u003c/em> and Tina Fey's \u003cem>30 Rock\u003c/em>, and of course, Zooey Deschanel's media siege with her lame old-timey vocals in the band, \u003cem>She & Him\u003c/em>, and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/08/new-girl-the-sitcom-as-the-new-reality-tv/\">her pretty good show, \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. But wait, how could we forget the other girls dominating our airwaves? The CW TV network is a girl party on crack including \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">the sensationally guilt-pleasurable \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Then we have Lady Gaga, and those other weirdos, Nicki Minaj, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey. Talk about a take-over. I don't even know where the men are anymore. Oh wait. They're combing their beards and wearing flannels, curing meat at home and occasionally resurfacing from their woodland-decorated apartments to eat at restaurants they read about in the NY Times. Girls, the airwaves and internet are yours to command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/gossip-girl-on-steps/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2484\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2484 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg\" alt=\"'Gossip Girl'\" width=\"497\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Gossip Girl'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what is a 'girl' anymore? Something between a little girl and a lady? As a post-teen non-woman, I feel the need to keep the title of girl probably well past its original expiration date because I'd rather be a girl than a woman. Between my anxiety and my jealousy at being only a fringe element of the Girl Renaissance, I have been looking back into the girl culture of my past. I am by no means an authority, but I have put together an incredibly subjective History of Girl Culture (the last 33 years) for your amusement and nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Last 33 Years of Girl Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I was born one year shy of the 1980s, I have no idea what the late '70s were like. I can imagine it sucked as the fight for women's rights continued from the '60s, (well, really the '20s), and you wanted that whole \u003cem>Murphy Brown\u003c/em> thing that you didn't know about yet, but you also just wanted to burn your bra and drop acid and tell your uptight housewife mom to leave you alone. I can only include what I learned about in retrospect about cool girl culture since I was hanging out in utero. Let's leave out disco and roller skating and \u003cem>Three's Company\u003c/em> and focus on the amazing punk subculture of the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110111\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg\" alt=\"The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Punks and Vixens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivienne Westwood, Patti Smith, Bow Wow Wow, The Slits, Exene Cervenka, The Runaways, and Siouxsie and the Banshees should all make you embarrassed to be so unoriginal and passive. Between the English punks and the American ones, they had it covered. This documentary, \u003cem>The Decline of Western Civilization\u003c/em>, was directed by punk girl Penelope Spheeris, and captures the gritty, sneering, yet slightly self-conscious and heavily made-up Exene of the band X. As the odd sex out most of the time, girls like her and Siouxsie Sioux were both iconic feminists and potent sex bombs, paving the way as disheveled girl originals of the Courtney Loves who would follow.\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQLe9FdXXXw&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Funsters Who Live at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we enter the early '80s, I still can't tell you much from my perspective as a girl unless you want to know about \u003cem>The Smurfs\u003c/em>. But who didn't know about Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, or Pat Benatar, (though \"Hell is For Children\" was particularly alarming)? I mostly remember the \"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun\" video from \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em>, but the message had broad appeal, even to a six-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also had other iconic all-girl bands like The Go-Gos and The Bangles, and a overriding sense of fun and pop. The songs from Lauper and Madonna still reference their fathers, i.e. \"Papa Don't Preach,\" as if the hardened girls of the punk movement had lent their over-the-top style but not their tough girl message of staking out territory with the boys. It was girls on one side of the dance floor and boys on the other, and then there were the geeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Geeks and Bimbos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2481\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/martha-plimpton/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2481\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Martha-Plimpton.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Plimpton\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Plimpton\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2482\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/the_breakfast_club_142_thumb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2482\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2482 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ally Sheedy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat strangely, a geek story plays out in almost all '80s teen culture. Nerdy girls like Martha Plimpton in \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em> or Ally Sheedy in the \u003cem>Breakfast Club\u003c/em> serve as comparison shots to the hot girls and never get the guy, or get him \u003cem>only\u003c/em> after a hot girl takes her under her wing. They are often seen literally comparing their boobs to the other girls in \u003ca title=\"Shower Scenes\" href=\"http://www.anyclip.com/movies/sixteen-candles/caroline-showers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shower scenes\u003c/a>, as men were probably the only ones writing the scripts. All girls in this era, it seems, want to be blond, busty, and heavily shouldered, like the girls in \u003cem>Valley Girl\u003c/em>, Seventeen Magazine, and Blair on the \u003cem>Facts of Life\u003c/em>. Enter heavy metal and the hope we had for self-respect went out the window with Kelly Bundy and groupies everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/christina-applegate-kelly-bundy-married-with-children6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2485\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2485 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6-400x272.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we approach the later end of the '80s, i'ts more and more apparent that girls are trying to be \u003cem>women\u003c/em>. The big hair, the big boobs, the way everyone talks about themselves as if they were really serious about everything. It all just made me feel extremely self-conscious. I don't know what happened to the feminists of the '70s. They were probably building communes to get away from all we had done to our own girlhoods, but everyone else was rocking out to dudes who looked like girls and checking out models we had actually learned the names of on the covers of magazines. There \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a few anti-heroes like Winona Ryder in the movie \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>, and for that I am eternally grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQik7L8Av6w&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Sarcastic yet Politically Correct \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the '90s now, and boy is it a girl's paradise. We all know how grunge killed metal, at least if you find yourself watching VH1 documentaries on Saturdays, and grunge also killed chauvinism, it would seem. Suddenly we forgot about Axl Rose and Stephanie Seymour and even Janet Jackson and Lita Ford. We did tolerate \u003cem>90210\u003c/em> (Ok, I was 11 and I loved it), and the cooler cult classic \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>, but there was a storm brewing and it's name was Girl Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The other British invasion\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg-160x140.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The other British invasion\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you remember \"Girl Power\" when it was screamed from the stage of this British Goody-barretted monstrosity? Despite how ridiculous they were, especially in all those flared polyester pants, their message was delivered in good faith. \"Girl Power\" was a mantra echoed from these cheeky British mouths to all young girls across the world. As cheesy as that was, in the face of the metal years we had just gone through, we needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/bkbk/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2489\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bkbk-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"Bikini Kill\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bikini Kill\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, while this was going on, we had another form of \"Girl Power\" known as Riot Grrl, like Bikini Kill screaming \"Suck my left one!\", among other things. Riot Grrls were mutli-tasker extremists, staying up late to make zines, create record distros, and bake cakes. We also had Riot Grrl Lite like No Doubt's \"Just a Girl.\" One thing was certain: absolutely everyone was in thrift store clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzOOQfhPFg&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could go on about the '90s for a million years. It was the decade I lived through as an adolescent, so each moment was recorded in my developing brain as important and mind-blowing. All I know is that I can remember grunge and Courtney Love, the 4 Non-Blondes, L7, a new general sarcasm with shows like \u003cem>My So-Called Life\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Daria\u003c/em> and movies like \u003cem>Reality Bites,\u003c/em> nerd-heroine Jeanane Garafalo, angry songstress PJ Harvey, weirdo Bjork, Drew Barrymore flashing David Letterman, and Fiona Apple losing it and yelling at everyone at the MTV awards show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking back it seems like it was a good time for girls, but an angry time. And everyone was skinny and on drugs, highlighted by \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Trainspotting\u003c/em>, heroin chic and Kate Moss. On the other hand, we had Lilith Fair and the woman warrior weapon of choice: the acoustic guitar. Suddenly everyone was 'PC', and it seemed like everyone had also recently become bi-sexual. Weirdest of all, dreadlocks enjoyed a rise in popularity, with Ani Di Franco as a poster child for basically all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Ani DiFranco\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-768x766.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ani DiFranco\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Soft-Spoken Harpists and Fame-Chasers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can hardly remember anything about the 2000s. I guess once your personal preferences are formed, and your personality cemented, you are free to go about looking back into history to find your tribe. This is when I discovered the Runaways, X, Siouxsie and the Banshees, \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> and old horror films. Since I became a punk in this time period, my memory doesn't recall much of the current traditional girl 'pop' culture of the time. I remember that rockabilly had a resurgence, with amazing sculpted girl pompadour beehive things that I wished I could do. Also, there was the band, The Distillers, who took the angry feminism of the '90s and made it more explicit, referencing Susan B. Anthony in their lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGp9g9nJKk&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly what I remember, however, was the bipolar culture of a new way of keeping up with all kinds of the coolest things, amplified by the fact that basically everyone now had the internet and MySpace and a way to broadcast themselves. There was also a very quiet indie culture of soft girliness, like \u003ca href=\"http://lulamag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lula Magazine\u003c/a>, which I think was a reaction from the more sensitive turtles of girl culture. We had the \u003ca title=\"Cobrasnake\" href=\"http://www.thecobrasnake.com\">Cobrasnake\u003c/a> and New York disco pop trumping everything like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Glass Candy, but we also had the \u003cem>Virgin Suicides\u003c/em> and Cat Power and Joanna Newsom, (which was weird because she is from my hometown). There was \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, lest we forget, and a constant push to spend money and keep up, with reality shows like \u003cem>The Hills\u003c/em> and a strange cultural obsession with Paris Hilton. In the end, I think as girls we lost our way again, just like we did last time we had too much money, in the '80s. Girl culture became about labels, the possibility of fame, and the weird alternative reality of Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Paris and Nicole\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris and Nicole\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The New Girls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the economic bottom dropping out. Suddenly we're depressed and we want fantasy. We want crazy outfits and supernatural creatures crawling into our beds at night so we don't think about our chances of finding employment. But we also have taken matters into our own hands and created what we were looking for and hadn't found in the fast-fashion reality mega-plex of the 2000s. Sisters are doing it for themselves, from the cheesy-as-they-might be \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> writers to the genius comic relief we really needed in the form of Poehler and Fey, the self-made videos of Lana Del Rey to the self-produced albums from Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here is to our smart girl writers, directors, bloggers, singers, and everyone in between. Please keep making awesome things, even if not everyone likes you. We need you so that one day when we look back we'll remember our 2010s as the Girl Renaissance, and not think of the Kardashians and Ke$ha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Weirdo South African band, Die Antwoord\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1200x668.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weirdo South African band, Die Antwoord\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZHah-c0hQ&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2374\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 271px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2374\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg\" alt=\"Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\" width=\"271\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1.jpg 584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/girls-lena-dunham-1_-_copy1-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lena Dunham of 'Girls'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>A Girl Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls are having a moment. A Girl Renaissance, filled with frumpy young girl directors singing their autobiographical swan songs like Lena Dunham and Miranda July,\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15\" width=\"185\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM.png 185w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.13.12-PM-160x226.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tavi Gevinson: Grey hair looks great, but only if you're 15 \u003ccite>(Instagram/@tavitulle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>doe-eyed, gray-haired ingenue Tavi Gevinson taking street style blogging and turning it into an \u003ca title=\"Empire\" href=\"http://rookiemag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empire\u003c/a>, those girl-women of SNL fame writing pee-your-pants movies and TV shows like Kristen Wiig's \u003cem>Bridesmaids\u003c/em> and Tina Fey's \u003cem>30 Rock\u003c/em>, and of course, Zooey Deschanel's media siege with her lame old-timey vocals in the band, \u003cem>She & Him\u003c/em>, and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/08/new-girl-the-sitcom-as-the-new-reality-tv/\">her pretty good show, \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. But wait, how could we forget the other girls dominating our airwaves? The CW TV network is a girl party on crack including \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">the sensationally guilt-pleasurable \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Then we have Lady Gaga, and those other weirdos, Nicki Minaj, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey. Talk about a take-over. I don't even know where the men are anymore. Oh wait. They're combing their beards and wearing flannels, curing meat at home and occasionally resurfacing from their woodland-decorated apartments to eat at restaurants they read about in the NY Times. Girls, the airwaves and internet are yours to command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/gossip-girl-on-steps/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2484\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2484 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg\" alt=\"'Gossip Girl'\" width=\"497\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gossip-girl-on-steps-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Gossip Girl'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what is a 'girl' anymore? Something between a little girl and a lady? As a post-teen non-woman, I feel the need to keep the title of girl probably well past its original expiration date because I'd rather be a girl than a woman. Between my anxiety and my jealousy at being only a fringe element of the Girl Renaissance, I have been looking back into the girl culture of my past. I am by no means an authority, but I have put together an incredibly subjective History of Girl Culture (the last 33 years) for your amusement and nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Last 33 Years of Girl Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I was born one year shy of the 1980s, I have no idea what the late '70s were like. I can imagine it sucked as the fight for women's rights continued from the '60s, (well, really the '20s), and you wanted that whole \u003cem>Murphy Brown\u003c/em> thing that you didn't know about yet, but you also just wanted to burn your bra and drop acid and tell your uptight housewife mom to leave you alone. I can only include what I learned about in retrospect about cool girl culture since I was hanging out in utero. Let's leave out disco and roller skating and \u003cem>Three's Company\u003c/em> and focus on the amazing punk subculture of the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110111\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg\" alt=\"The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/62bb73a51285cecbaedd7f078f35ecd2-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only thing that was a bummer about Joan Jett's all-girl band, The Runaways, was that they needed to dress slutty to get attention\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Punks and Vixens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivienne Westwood, Patti Smith, Bow Wow Wow, The Slits, Exene Cervenka, The Runaways, and Siouxsie and the Banshees should all make you embarrassed to be so unoriginal and passive. Between the English punks and the American ones, they had it covered. This documentary, \u003cem>The Decline of Western Civilization\u003c/em>, was directed by punk girl Penelope Spheeris, and captures the gritty, sneering, yet slightly self-conscious and heavily made-up Exene of the band X. As the odd sex out most of the time, girls like her and Siouxsie Sioux were both iconic feminists and potent sex bombs, paving the way as disheveled girl originals of the Courtney Loves who would follow.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gQLe9FdXXXw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gQLe9FdXXXw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Funsters Who Live at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we enter the early '80s, I still can't tell you much from my perspective as a girl unless you want to know about \u003cem>The Smurfs\u003c/em>. But who didn't know about Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, or Pat Benatar, (though \"Hell is For Children\" was particularly alarming)? I mostly remember the \"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun\" video from \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em>, but the message had broad appeal, even to a six-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PIb6AZdTr-A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PIb6AZdTr-A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also had other iconic all-girl bands like The Go-Gos and The Bangles, and a overriding sense of fun and pop. The songs from Lauper and Madonna still reference their fathers, i.e. \"Papa Don't Preach,\" as if the hardened girls of the punk movement had lent their over-the-top style but not their tough girl message of staking out territory with the boys. It was girls on one side of the dance floor and boys on the other, and then there were the geeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Geeks and Bimbos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2481\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/martha-plimpton/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2481\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Martha-Plimpton.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Plimpton\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Plimpton\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2482\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/the_breakfast_club_142_thumb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2482\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2482 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The_Breakfast_Club_142_thumb\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ally Sheedy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhat strangely, a geek story plays out in almost all '80s teen culture. Nerdy girls like Martha Plimpton in \u003cem>Goonies\u003c/em> or Ally Sheedy in the \u003cem>Breakfast Club\u003c/em> serve as comparison shots to the hot girls and never get the guy, or get him \u003cem>only\u003c/em> after a hot girl takes her under her wing. They are often seen literally comparing their boobs to the other girls in \u003ca title=\"Shower Scenes\" href=\"http://www.anyclip.com/movies/sixteen-candles/caroline-showers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shower scenes\u003c/a>, as men were probably the only ones writing the scripts. All girls in this era, it seems, want to be blond, busty, and heavily shouldered, like the girls in \u003cem>Valley Girl\u003c/em>, Seventeen Magazine, and Blair on the \u003cem>Facts of Life\u003c/em>. Enter heavy metal and the hope we had for self-respect went out the window with Kelly Bundy and groupies everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/christina-applegate-kelly-bundy-married-with-children6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2485\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2485 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Christina-Applegate-Kelly-Bundy-Married-with-children6-400x272.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Bundy on 'Married with Children'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we approach the later end of the '80s, i'ts more and more apparent that girls are trying to be \u003cem>women\u003c/em>. The big hair, the big boobs, the way everyone talks about themselves as if they were really serious about everything. It all just made me feel extremely self-conscious. I don't know what happened to the feminists of the '70s. They were probably building communes to get away from all we had done to our own girlhoods, but everyone else was rocking out to dudes who looked like girls and checking out models we had actually learned the names of on the covers of magazines. There \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a few anti-heroes like Winona Ryder in the movie \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>, and for that I am eternally grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yQik7L8Av6w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yQik7L8Av6w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Sarcastic yet Politically Correct \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the '90s now, and boy is it a girl's paradise. We all know how grunge killed metal, at least if you find yourself watching VH1 documentaries on Saturdays, and grunge also killed chauvinism, it would seem. Suddenly we forgot about Axl Rose and Stephanie Seymour and even Janet Jackson and Lita Ford. We did tolerate \u003cem>90210\u003c/em> (Ok, I was 11 and I loved it), and the cooler cult classic \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>, but there was a storm brewing and it's name was Girl Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The other British invasion\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/R-663729-1358073482-1488.jpeg-160x140.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The other British invasion\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you remember \"Girl Power\" when it was screamed from the stage of this British Goody-barretted monstrosity? Despite how ridiculous they were, especially in all those flared polyester pants, their message was delivered in good faith. \"Girl Power\" was a mantra echoed from these cheeky British mouths to all young girls across the world. As cheesy as that was, in the face of the metal years we had just gone through, we needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/13/a-completely-subjective-history-of-girl-culture/bkbk/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2489\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bkbk-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"Bikini Kill\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bikini Kill\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, while this was going on, we had another form of \"Girl Power\" known as Riot Grrl, like Bikini Kill screaming \"Suck my left one!\", among other things. Riot Grrls were mutli-tasker extremists, staying up late to make zines, create record distros, and bake cakes. We also had Riot Grrl Lite like No Doubt's \"Just a Girl.\" One thing was certain: absolutely everyone was in thrift store clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PHzOOQfhPFg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PHzOOQfhPFg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could go on about the '90s for a million years. It was the decade I lived through as an adolescent, so each moment was recorded in my developing brain as important and mind-blowing. All I know is that I can remember grunge and Courtney Love, the 4 Non-Blondes, L7, a new general sarcasm with shows like \u003cem>My So-Called Life\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Daria\u003c/em> and movies like \u003cem>Reality Bites,\u003c/em> nerd-heroine Jeanane Garafalo, angry songstress PJ Harvey, weirdo Bjork, Drew Barrymore flashing David Letterman, and Fiona Apple losing it and yelling at everyone at the MTV awards show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking back it seems like it was a good time for girls, but an angry time. And everyone was skinny and on drugs, highlighted by \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Trainspotting\u003c/em>, heroin chic and Kate Moss. On the other hand, we had Lilith Fair and the woman warrior weapon of choice: the acoustic guitar. Suddenly everyone was 'PC', and it seemed like everyone had also recently become bi-sexual. Weirdest of all, dreadlocks enjoyed a rise in popularity, with Ani Di Franco as a poster child for basically all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Ani DiFranco\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-800x798.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-768x766.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/71eWD5lcgTL._SL1050_.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ani DiFranco\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Soft-Spoken Harpists and Fame-Chasers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can hardly remember anything about the 2000s. I guess once your personal preferences are formed, and your personality cemented, you are free to go about looking back into history to find your tribe. This is when I discovered the Runaways, X, Siouxsie and the Banshees, \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> and old horror films. Since I became a punk in this time period, my memory doesn't recall much of the current traditional girl 'pop' culture of the time. I remember that rockabilly had a resurgence, with amazing sculpted girl pompadour beehive things that I wished I could do. Also, there was the band, The Distillers, who took the angry feminism of the '90s and made it more explicit, referencing Susan B. Anthony in their lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ODGp9g9nJKk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ODGp9g9nJKk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly what I remember, however, was the bipolar culture of a new way of keeping up with all kinds of the coolest things, amplified by the fact that basically everyone now had the internet and MySpace and a way to broadcast themselves. There was also a very quiet indie culture of soft girliness, like \u003ca href=\"http://lulamag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lula Magazine\u003c/a>, which I think was a reaction from the more sensitive turtles of girl culture. We had the \u003ca title=\"Cobrasnake\" href=\"http://www.thecobrasnake.com\">Cobrasnake\u003c/a> and New York disco pop trumping everything like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Glass Candy, but we also had the \u003cem>Virgin Suicides\u003c/em> and Cat Power and Joanna Newsom, (which was weird because she is from my hometown). There was \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, lest we forget, and a constant push to spend money and keep up, with reality shows like \u003cem>The Hills\u003c/em> and a strange cultural obsession with Paris Hilton. In the end, I think as girls we lost our way again, just like we did last time we had too much money, in the '80s. Girl culture became about labels, the possibility of fame, and the weird alternative reality of Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Paris and Nicole\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/nicole-richie-paris-hilton-today-180409-tease_f91409b0be9af0697087605a9f8582ff.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris and Nicole\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The New Girls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the economic bottom dropping out. Suddenly we're depressed and we want fantasy. We want crazy outfits and supernatural creatures crawling into our beds at night so we don't think about our chances of finding employment. But we also have taken matters into our own hands and created what we were looking for and hadn't found in the fast-fashion reality mega-plex of the 2000s. Sisters are doing it for themselves, from the cheesy-as-they-might be \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> writers to the genius comic relief we really needed in the form of Poehler and Fey, the self-made videos of Lana Del Rey to the self-produced albums from Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here is to our smart girl writers, directors, bloggers, singers, and everyone in between. Please keep making awesome things, even if not everyone likes you. We need you so that one day when we look back we'll remember our 2010s as the Girl Renaissance, and not think of the Kardashians and Ke$ha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Weirdo South African band, Die Antwoord\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1200x668.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/die-antwoord-pitbull-terrier-music-video.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weirdo South African band, Die Antwoord\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/00ZHah-c0hQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/00ZHah-c0hQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/empire_records-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"empire_records-600x450\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/empire_records-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/empire_records-600x450-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ryan Adams wrote each of the nine songs on his album \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/44-29/\">29\u003c/a>\u003cem> to represent a different year of his 20s. It was his great exit album and tribute to a tousled and uncertain decade, one that is at the very least, self-defining. I am 29-years-old at this very moment, turning the big 3-0 in May. Lately, I’ve been hearing new songs that have been speaking to me, but not the mature me with a restaurant job and a student loan payment plan, but rather, the 19-year-old me. They are songs I see my weird, boot-cut jean, \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/EgRyV8z9ydE\">Kerouac\u003c/a>-obsessed self truly identifying with. Be it their bubbly sound or angsty lyrics, I am taken back to the past me, a similar me, one on the cusp of something. Perhaps this is a perfect case of nostalgia or perhaps it is regression in pure form, but either way, in the following tunes you might recognize something of an old you, someone okay with it not figured out:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1PQB8MXUo&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>HAIM – “Falling”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>The Haim sisters take anachronism very seriously. With small touches of '90s dance and major touches of '80s pop, HAIM evokes the likes of \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/LvdLovAaYzM\">Martika\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t57sSJfpRM8\">Belinda Carlisle\u003c/a> and T’Pau’s \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/SwrYMWoqg5w\">“Heart and Soul.”\u003c/a> It’s difficult not to picture your teenage self upset at the 21 & over limitation of the HAIM show, but it’s quite easy getting your older sibling’s ID, excited at the fact that you have the address down and now only need to know their zodiac sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DLNV1Fs4k&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Javelin – “Light Out”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAdd a cello to any song and I’m there. Add a synthesized cello to any song and I’m totally still there. 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"content": "\u003cp>Occasionally I find myself defending Twitter from its detractors. I think a great deal of people still think of Twitter as just a place where P. Diddy and Ashton Kutcher post about mundane things like what they had for lunch, and it’s not. It’s also a place where non-celebrities post about what they had for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, though, Twitter—along with every other major social media website—has been host to weird, fascinating art and poetry for years. No matter how intrinsically banal a platform may seem, someone in this talented world manages to do something worthwhile with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel inclined to defend Twitter specifically because of people like John Moe, who I’ve written about here \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/19/six-podcasts-you-really-should-be-listening-to/\">before\u003c/a>, as well as Jon Hendren (@fart)—people who have mastered the 140-word joke form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The real tragedy is not that they call him Lowly Worm, it's that no one in Busytown even sees that as a pejorative — John Moe (@johnmoe) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmoe/status/310760618401599490\">March 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>“Google Glass, please find a salon or barber shop that can repair haircut damage from multiple simultaneous noogies” -the future — jon hendren (@fart) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fart/status/310158991114252289\">March 8, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Others are worth following for what they retweet, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/this-man-is-not-a-burrito\">internet archivist Katie Notopolous\u003c/a>, and, if you want to be exposed to the depressing side of Twitter, the user @boring_as_heck, who catalogues \u003ca href=\"http://tweetpairing.tumblr.com/\">pairings of tweets by ignorant conspiracy theorists.\u003c/a> A Twitter account like that of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dril/status/309014923948744705\">@dril\u003c/a> could be considered an extended Dadaist performance piece. Many \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/diaper_wolf/status/228708326836428800\">other accounts\u003c/a> use \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hell_homer/status/310848394409177088\">similarly absurd humor \u003c/a>but frequently break character, often to hint at personal woes or to take stands on politics—a process I’d compare to that of a comedian riffing in front of an audience until he or she finds something funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about Facebook? Isn’t that just where your friends’ moms write long screeds about the need for better gun control in this country, and where bad local bands invite you to come see them? No! It’s also where \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/07/04/110704ta_talk_mead\">Princeton professor Jeff Nunokawa\u003c/a> posts deep and sometimes moving meditations on literature. If you add him as a friend, you can get these notes on your feed, and he will also wish you a happy birthday on your birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/341/114/7dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"337\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via \u003ca href=\"http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/341114-poofed-audi-guy\">Know Your Meme.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instagram remains mostly a wasteland of brunches and cats, despite the fact that photography is definitely a legitimate art form and not just a hobby for dads and pretty girls. However, you guys, \u003cem>Ai Weiwei\u003c/em>, an artist famous for being persecuted by the Chinese government, is now on Instagram at \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/aiww/\">@aiww\u003c/a>. The account is decidedly non-controversial—it’s mostly starkly beautiful images of people around him, his cats, and even the occasional \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=selfie\">selfie\u003c/a>. His technical skill and his backstory are what make the images poignant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=2362\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2362\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aiweiwei.png\" alt=\"Via Ai Weiwei on Instagram\" width=\"598\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aiweiwei.png 598w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aiweiwei-400x379.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/aiww\">Ai Weiwei on Instagram.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You should also check out The New Yorker Instagram feed at \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/newyorkermag\">@newyorkermag\u003c/a>, where New Yorker photographers post images while on assignment—right now they’re documenting the 55\u003csup>th\u003c/sup>annual Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=2363\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2363\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2363\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators.png\" alt=\"Via The New Yorker on Instagram.\" width=\"574\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators.png 574w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-400x399.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/newyorkermag\">The New Yorker on Instagram.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently Twitter unveiled Vine, an app that allows users to post and share six-second looping videos. I’m interested in this app because it is one of the first social networking platforms (can I say “social networking platforms” enough times in this article to make people jump off the Golden Gate Bridge?) made expressly for the purpose of making art, (with the exception of Instagram, which is photography, and photography is totally art). Not only art, but an art form on which people spend years and millions of dollars: the movies!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s already been established that while Twitter great John Moe is only decent at Vine, actor James Urbaniak—who is only \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JamesUrbaniak/status/305904344648253440\">decent at coming up with funny jokes on Twitter\u003c/a>—is an absolute champion on Vine. His six-second videos are short films with beginnings, middles, ends, special effects, and costumes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JamesUrbaniak/status/305195980012285952\">Oscar Party '76\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vine.co/v/b6qd6pjmi3i\">Bowie at Home\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is art still best left to the pros, even when it's free online or on an app? Twitter is telling me no, but Vine is telling me yes. Who else is great that I’ve left out?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Occasionally I find myself defending Twitter from its detractors. I think a great deal of people still think of Twitter as just a place where P. Diddy and Ashton Kutcher post about mundane things like what they had for lunch, and it’s not. It’s also a place where non-celebrities post about what they had for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, though, Twitter—along with every other major social media website—has been host to weird, fascinating art and poetry for years. No matter how intrinsically banal a platform may seem, someone in this talented world manages to do something worthwhile with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel inclined to defend Twitter specifically because of people like John Moe, who I’ve written about here \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/19/six-podcasts-you-really-should-be-listening-to/\">before\u003c/a>, as well as Jon Hendren (@fart)—people who have mastered the 140-word joke form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The real tragedy is not that they call him Lowly Worm, it's that no one in Busytown even sees that as a pejorative — John Moe (@johnmoe) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmoe/status/310760618401599490\">March 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>“Google Glass, please find a salon or barber shop that can repair haircut damage from multiple simultaneous noogies” -the future — jon hendren (@fart) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fart/status/310158991114252289\">March 8, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Others are worth following for what they retweet, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/this-man-is-not-a-burrito\">internet archivist Katie Notopolous\u003c/a>, and, if you want to be exposed to the depressing side of Twitter, the user @boring_as_heck, who catalogues \u003ca href=\"http://tweetpairing.tumblr.com/\">pairings of tweets by ignorant conspiracy theorists.\u003c/a> A Twitter account like that of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dril/status/309014923948744705\">@dril\u003c/a> could be considered an extended Dadaist performance piece. Many \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/diaper_wolf/status/228708326836428800\">other accounts\u003c/a> use \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hell_homer/status/310848394409177088\">similarly absurd humor \u003c/a>but frequently break character, often to hint at personal woes or to take stands on politics—a process I’d compare to that of a comedian riffing in front of an audience until he or she finds something funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about Facebook? Isn’t that just where your friends’ moms write long screeds about the need for better gun control in this country, and where bad local bands invite you to come see them? No! It’s also where \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/07/04/110704ta_talk_mead\">Princeton professor Jeff Nunokawa\u003c/a> posts deep and sometimes moving meditations on literature. If you add him as a friend, you can get these notes on your feed, and he will also wish you a happy birthday on your birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/341/114/7dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"337\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via \u003ca href=\"http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/341114-poofed-audi-guy\">Know Your Meme.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instagram remains mostly a wasteland of brunches and cats, despite the fact that photography is definitely a legitimate art form and not just a hobby for dads and pretty girls. However, you guys, \u003cem>Ai Weiwei\u003c/em>, an artist famous for being persecuted by the Chinese government, is now on Instagram at \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/aiww/\">@aiww\u003c/a>. The account is decidedly non-controversial—it’s mostly starkly beautiful images of people around him, his cats, and even the occasional \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=selfie\">selfie\u003c/a>. His technical skill and his backstory are what make the images poignant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=2362\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2362\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aiweiwei.png\" alt=\"Via Ai Weiwei on Instagram\" width=\"598\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aiweiwei.png 598w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aiweiwei-400x379.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/aiww\">Ai Weiwei on Instagram.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You should also check out The New Yorker Instagram feed at \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/newyorkermag\">@newyorkermag\u003c/a>, where New Yorker photographers post images while on assignment—right now they’re documenting the 55\u003csup>th\u003c/sup>annual Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=2363\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2363\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2363\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators.png\" alt=\"Via The New Yorker on Instagram.\" width=\"574\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators.png 574w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-400x399.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/gators-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/newyorkermag\">The New Yorker on Instagram.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently Twitter unveiled Vine, an app that allows users to post and share six-second looping videos. 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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">I have a 13-year-old cousin who I carefully monitor on Facebook, both for her safety and my edification. Not long ago, she began posting pictures of members of One Direction, a band I had specifically avoided even knowing about because, as far as I could tell, they were a boy band totally made up by some producer somewhere to sell records (downloads?) and get little girls whipped up into a frenzy. I'd seen that before and made a point of hating it (see: middle school). But then I happened to watch their adorable video for \"Kiss You\" and something snapped in my brain. Suddenly, I was the 13-year-old I absolutely wasn't at 13 (Counting Crows was my favorite band back then, obviously). I started going back into the annals of boy band-hood and wondering: What makes a boy band a BOY BAND and not just a group of dudes playing music together? Why are 'N Sync and One Direction boy bands but Counting Crows and Mumford and Sons just bands? Here, my friends, is what I discovered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>To be a boy band, you have to sing catchy tunes about girls.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNPPwq8I2Y]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Most people will tell you that The Beatles were the first boy band. I wasn't always convinced of this because they are MUSICIANS and wrote their own stuff and went on to each have pretty amazing individual careers. However, on closer inspection, I realized that they STARTED as a boy band and then morphed into just a band. Back in the \"I Want To Hold Your Hand\" British Invasion days, when they all dressed the same and had those cute haircuts, they were definitely a boy band. And the first clue is the peppy and sweet songs about girls. Songs that say: \"Hey, we're just a bunch of nice, approachable dudes, hanging out together, talking about you, the girl we love, in a really respectful way.\" As a person who knows a lot of dudes well enough to know that generally when they are alone talking about girls the subject of holding hands RARELY comes up, I think this must be part of the appeal of boy bands. A horde of teenage boys can be quite a terrifying thing to a young girl in real life. And individually too, boys are scary. They hurt your feelings, don't ask you to dances, break-up with you on Valentine's Day because you won't have sex with them, etc. But not boy bands. They are always a group of cute dudes who just want to hold your hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There can't be a real front man.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I use Backstreet Boys as an example here because clearly, IN MY OPINION, this is the Nick Carter show. BUT, the band isn't \"Nick Carter and the Backstreet Boys,\" just as The Monkees isn't \"Davy Jones and the Monkees.\" Someone is always going to be \"the cute one\" and \"the goofy one,\" but the lack of a front man is crucial because it shows that you are all on the same level, there are no divas (even if there are) and, in support of the subject matter of your songs and the non-threatening vibe you are going for, none of you are the silver back gorilla or the alpha male. You're just a group of good-time-loving beta bros, hanging out, not hurting anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You can be a group of brothers, but only if you are still somehow sexualized.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>One of the great debates I had with myself and others while coming up with this list is: Can a group of brothers be a boy band? My main question was Hanson. They seem in some respects like a boy band. They are cute and have matching haircuts and sing happy music. But they also were missing something. I originally thought it was that they were brothers, but then I thought of The Jackson 5 and The Jonas Brothers, both CLEARLY boy bands. Why one and not the other? As my friend Kevin Hobson put it: \"Jackson 5 and Jonas Brother count because they were sexualized by their handlers. Hanson never really was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your music has to be dance-able, especially at high school dances. It helps if you have dance moves that can be emulated.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbIEwIwYz-c]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The boy bands that stand the test of time all have this in common: Their music makes you want to dance. I missed out completely on the New Kids on the Block craze because I had no TV and my parents at that point were playing a lot of Paul Simon, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson records around the house. However, there was a girl down the street who knew ever single move to the \"The Right Stuff\" dance and she would do it on her front stoop every day. She also wore a side ponytail, which I couldn't do since I had a bowl cut. I was, of course, consumed with jealousy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have to be a little sexy. Not TOO sexy, but definitely sexy.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV8vB1BB2qc]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Boyz II Men is by far the sexiest of all the boy bands, but they are also an example of how to do boy band sexiness right. Since, as you know, the goal is to be as un-intimidating and approachable as possible, while remaining masculine and heterosexual (ish, see the next requirement), boy bands must strike the right balance of sweetness and romance with straight-up sex. Spoiler: they always err on the side of romance. Can you imagine Lil Wayne singing: \"I'll make love to you, like you want me to, and I'll hold you tight, baby all through the night?\" Answer: no. 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When looking for cheap apartments in the East Bay, it is almost impossible to find a place that doesn’t want you as part of some sort of ultra-specific, vaguely-cult-sounding urban farm, commune, or best-friend-collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/07/east-bay-craigslist-and-the-rise-of-the-friendship-application/alwayssunny1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2277\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/alwayssunny1.jpg\" alt=\"alwayssunny1\" width=\"758\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/alwayssunny1.jpg 758w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/alwayssunny1-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Craigslist posters of this ilk seem to want you to fit into a very precise mold of a person they’ve imagined. 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Here is a picture of one: (Or at least, I inferred by the post that the picture was of him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 591px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/07/east-bay-craigslist-and-the-rise-of-the-friendship-application/aptman/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2278\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aptman.jpg\" alt=\"aptman\" width=\"591\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aptman.jpg 591w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/aptman-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Craigslist\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I hope my editors don’t mind that I plan on making my next three articles a multi-part analysis of how fascinating this image is. Those jorts!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This man’s post began as such:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"10x11x12 room in 2nd flr apt furnished 42\"x96\"queensize foldaway,cedar bureau,wood plankflrs,blondmahogany table desk,fridge,TVradio\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow, this place has everything! Except space bars, apparently!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post ended this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"House is athletic,Absolutely No Smoking,Drugs,or Alcohol\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Must be Kitty cat type person.All animals are well cared for gentle & good at keeping wild animals at bay.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Catpeople1942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">via \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film)\">Wikipedia\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the trend in apartment listings I found most upsetting was the one I described in the first paragraph: the friend application. These listings typically feature lengthy and banal descriptions of the people who live in the house before moving on to describe the \"you\" they'd like. One example I found of a person describing himself to excess:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"He rides his bike everywhere- though lately he's discovering the magic of walking and exploring hidden treasures around town!\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Walking?\u003c/em> I’ve heard tell of this manner of sorcery. Teach me your ways! Another house member in the same post described herself as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"A creative thinker and doer with a flair for bread-baking, a love of animals and children, and a passion for poop (aka 'sustainable human waste management systems').\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CODE RED!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most troubling post I found actually asked the applicant to fill out a quiz with questions ranging from the applicant’s political and philosophical affiliations to his or her favorite television show, and after that it only got weirder. I copied and pasted some of these questions into Microsoft Word for posterity. Click to expand:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery link=\"file\" ids=\"2282,2281,2280\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do people make these friendship applications? Because they’re delusional? Because they can?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also just not advisable for the renter. Having your best pal as a roommate means that you can’t be quite the same kind of pals you were before. You become pals who have to talk to each other about cleaning up. Even when I lived by myself, I hated myself even more than usual because of the terrible state I kept my apartment in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real shame of the friendship application is that it’s not a bad idea when it’s not disenfranchising people out of living situations. It’s hard to make friends after college. You have to develop a platonic crush, go on platonic dates, and even then everyone’s always too busy all the time (Jason).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What would your friendship application look like? Here’s mine:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Would you prefer to engage in A. a deep talk about our place in the universe, or B. a back-and-forth riff about what kind of nightmares Captain Kirk probably has?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Would you make fun of me if I started wearing a smoking jacket all the time?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Are you a serial killer?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Are you going to finish that sandwich?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you answered B, no, no, and no, then we can totally hang out. Whether or not I’d rent a room to you is a whole different story, though.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "5 Celebrities Who Might Be Banksy",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/top-12-banksy-pieces-of-2010\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2295\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2295 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy1.jpg\" alt=\"banksy1\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy1-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banksy in SF/ Image via \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/top-12-banksy-pieces-of-2010\">My Modern Met\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago there was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/banksy-arrest-hoax-2013-2\">fake press release\u003c/a> burning through the internet stating that Banksy, the famously anonymous British street artist, had been arrested by London police and his identity had been revealed. I totally fell for it! I clicked! I hecka wanted to know who Banksy was! I mean, in a world where people like \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/01/kim-kardashian-and-kanyes-baby-a-harbinger-of-the-apocalypse/\">Kim Kardashian\u003c/a> will exploit their own exploitation to add stacks to their already bloated accounts, it's refreshing and a little incredulous that someone who can do AMAZING THINGS would not want anyone to know who they were. Of course, Banksy does things that are illegal, so that's high motivation for anonymity, but bank and marriage fraud are also illegal and at least in America, people do those things publicly all the time without consequence. Anywho, I am intrigued as to Banksy's identity, and I have a few educated guesses as to who this person might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. George Walker Bush\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a Facebook account, you may know about the leaked Bush self-portraits hacked by someone named Guccifer (who I want to claim for team queer because - \u003cem>Guccifer\u003c/em>?!). Here they are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 230px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/bush-shower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2207\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2207 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush-shower.jpg\" alt=\"image via self-portrait of the artist\" width=\"230\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush-shower.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush-shower-400x537.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://selfportraitoftheartist.wordpress.com\">self-portrait of the artist\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/bush_bathtub/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2206\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2206 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush_bathtub.jpg\" alt=\"image via self-portrait of the artist\" width=\"216\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush_bathtub.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush_bathtub-400x540.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://selfportraitoftheartist.wordpress.com\">self-portrait of the artist\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know what you're thinking: \u003cem>Banksy is a talented artist who is politically against pretty much everything GWB stood for. I don't think the same person who paints incredibly well-rendered life-like images painted those scapula-lungs in the shower canvas. \u003c/em>But I say, PERFECT COVER. You know how Banksy (allegedly?) created \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash\">Mr. Brainwash\u003c/a> and thereby his art as cultural commentary? Maybe GWB's entire presidency was performance art by Banksy and these bathing-time self portraits are an exploration of what a man like that would paint. Except no. Because the effects of the GWB presidency on the people of the world are something no one would allow for the sake of art... but then, there was that whole Salvador Dalí/Franco thing, so who knows? Still, if we're gonna go with far-right conservatism as performance art, a more likely candidate is...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Ann Coulter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend \u003ca href=\"http://www.cca.edu/academics/alumni/mbraithwaite\">Michael Braithwaite \u003c/a> has a long standing theory that \u003ca href=\"http://www.anncoulter.com/\">Ann Coulter\u003c/a> is actually a performance artist purposefully intending to show how bigotry and narrow-mindedness make a person look ridiculous. This theory aligns well with my theory that she could be Banksy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/banksy_maid_passer_by/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2218\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2218 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_maid_passer_by.jpg\" alt=\"banksy_maid_passer_by\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/\">art of the state\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For me, this Banksy piece says a lot about the intersection between issues of gender and class. It could easily be by the same person who \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter\">said\u003c/a> \"I think [women] should be armed but should not vote ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it ... it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care\" -- IF you take this statement to be intended to show how questioning the value of universal suffrage and dismissing the needs of working mothers makes you look like an idiot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Michael Jackson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ is not dead! He is alive and expressing his radical politic via street art as Banksy! The King is Dead, Long Live the King!! If we surmise that Banksy's true identity is someone who shares his concern for the people of world, MJ is a clear candidate. In addition to being the greatest entertainer of all time, Michael Jackson loved to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/mj_selfie_2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2209\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2209 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mj_selfie_2.jpg\" alt=\"Minimalist selfie by King Michael\" width=\"280\" height=\"390\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimalist selfie by King Michael (via \u003ca href=\"http://www.mjjcollectors.com/\">MJJ Collectors\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his humiliating public struggle with internalized colorism, he \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rep\">repped\u003c/a> black people HARD his whole life and loved music, especially black music. I think it makes sense that he would use Banksy as a cover to go to New Orleans post-Katrina and paint this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/banksy_black_band/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2202\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2202 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_black_band.jpg\" alt=\"banksy_black_band\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_black_band.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_black_band-400x271.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://www.custompuzzlecraft.com/Weather/banksy.html\">John S. Stokes III\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Cecilia Jimenez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Jimenez is the woman who \"restored\" the Ecce Homo fresco into the super-meme \u003ca href=\"http://beastjesus.tumblr.com/\">Beast Jesus\u003c/a>. Is it a stretch to think that a mature, female artist might invent a young, masculine alter ego in order to be taken more seriously by an ageist and sexist culture? I think not. Beast Jesus can totally be read as a statement about Catholic symbology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/cecilia-gimenez_beast_jc/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2208\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2208\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Cecilia-Gim%C3%A9nez_beast_jc-300x158.jpg\" alt='What could \"Banksy\" be trying to say about the politics of \"restoration?\"' width=\"300\" height=\"158\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What could \"Banksy\" be trying to say about the politics of \"restoration?\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Jimenez piece is far more subtle, one might even say, more complex, than the obvious statement in this known Banksy piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 207px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/banksy-consumer-shopping-christ/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2219\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2219\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy-consumer-shopping-christ-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"banksy consumer shopping christ\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from \u003ca href=\"http://iconsandimagery.blogspot.com/2011/02/christ-with-shopping-bags.html\">Icons & Imagery\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Jay Z\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \"\u003ca href=\"http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-moment-of-clarity-lyrics#note-9542\">Moment of Clarity\u003c/a>\" track on the Black album, Jay Z says: \"I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollas/They criticized me for it, yet they all yell 'holla!'\" This lyric isn't the only time Jay Z has expressed simultaneous regret and pride for leaving behind complexity for cash. What if he could have both worlds? What if he could sell dumbed-down records all day and paint overtly political street art at night? \u003ca href=\"http://rapgenius.com/9542/Jay-z-moment-of-clarity/I-dumbed-down-for-my-audience-to-double-my-dollars-they-criticized-me-for-it-yet-they-all-yell-holla\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 202px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/thug-for-life-6x4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2213\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2213 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Thug-For-Life-6x4-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thug-For-Life-6x4\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://raincoaster.com/category/banksy/page/2/\">raincoaster\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I mean, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk\" target=\"_blank\">\"99 Problems\"\u003c/a> has been interpreted as a statement about racial profiling. I can totally see Jay-Z-Banksy throwing the above piece up on a London wall. Except... If Banksy was Jay Z, the \"Banksy arrested\" thing would not be a hoax, it would be real. When people see a white guy doing things, a lot of times they assume whatever that guy is doing is okay, \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/bike-theft/story?id=10556016\">even when there is obvious reason to suspect otherwise\u003c/a>. Black guys, not so much. The success of Banksy's most famous escapades in civil disobedience -- adding altered classics to the walls in the Metropolitan Museum of Art dressed like the Pink Panther, jumping into a fenced-off Disneyland attraction -- relies as heavily on white privilege as it does on his artistic talent and sharp commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, my list is all fun and games, since \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-unmasked---public-schoolboy-middle-class-suburbia.html\">Banksy's true identity\u003c/a> has been an open secret since at least 2008. His name is Robin Gunningham. OR SO HE SAYS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/top-12-banksy-pieces-of-2010\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2295\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2295 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy1.jpg\" alt=\"banksy1\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy1-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banksy in SF/ Image via \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/top-12-banksy-pieces-of-2010\">My Modern Met\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago there was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/banksy-arrest-hoax-2013-2\">fake press release\u003c/a> burning through the internet stating that Banksy, the famously anonymous British street artist, had been arrested by London police and his identity had been revealed. I totally fell for it! I clicked! I hecka wanted to know who Banksy was! I mean, in a world where people like \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/01/kim-kardashian-and-kanyes-baby-a-harbinger-of-the-apocalypse/\">Kim Kardashian\u003c/a> will exploit their own exploitation to add stacks to their already bloated accounts, it's refreshing and a little incredulous that someone who can do AMAZING THINGS would not want anyone to know who they were. Of course, Banksy does things that are illegal, so that's high motivation for anonymity, but bank and marriage fraud are also illegal and at least in America, people do those things publicly all the time without consequence. Anywho, I am intrigued as to Banksy's identity, and I have a few educated guesses as to who this person might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. George Walker Bush\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a Facebook account, you may know about the leaked Bush self-portraits hacked by someone named Guccifer (who I want to claim for team queer because - \u003cem>Guccifer\u003c/em>?!). Here they are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 230px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/bush-shower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2207\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2207 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush-shower.jpg\" alt=\"image via self-portrait of the artist\" width=\"230\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush-shower.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush-shower-400x537.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://selfportraitoftheartist.wordpress.com\">self-portrait of the artist\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/bush_bathtub/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2206\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2206 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush_bathtub.jpg\" alt=\"image via self-portrait of the artist\" width=\"216\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush_bathtub.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bush_bathtub-400x540.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://selfportraitoftheartist.wordpress.com\">self-portrait of the artist\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know what you're thinking: \u003cem>Banksy is a talented artist who is politically against pretty much everything GWB stood for. I don't think the same person who paints incredibly well-rendered life-like images painted those scapula-lungs in the shower canvas. \u003c/em>But I say, PERFECT COVER. You know how Banksy (allegedly?) created \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash\">Mr. Brainwash\u003c/a> and thereby his art as cultural commentary? Maybe GWB's entire presidency was performance art by Banksy and these bathing-time self portraits are an exploration of what a man like that would paint. Except no. Because the effects of the GWB presidency on the people of the world are something no one would allow for the sake of art... but then, there was that whole Salvador Dalí/Franco thing, so who knows? Still, if we're gonna go with far-right conservatism as performance art, a more likely candidate is...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Ann Coulter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend \u003ca href=\"http://www.cca.edu/academics/alumni/mbraithwaite\">Michael Braithwaite \u003c/a> has a long standing theory that \u003ca href=\"http://www.anncoulter.com/\">Ann Coulter\u003c/a> is actually a performance artist purposefully intending to show how bigotry and narrow-mindedness make a person look ridiculous. This theory aligns well with my theory that she could be Banksy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/banksy_maid_passer_by/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2218\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2218 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_maid_passer_by.jpg\" alt=\"banksy_maid_passer_by\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/\">art of the state\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For me, this Banksy piece says a lot about the intersection between issues of gender and class. It could easily be by the same person who \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter\">said\u003c/a> \"I think [women] should be armed but should not vote ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it ... it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care\" -- IF you take this statement to be intended to show how questioning the value of universal suffrage and dismissing the needs of working mothers makes you look like an idiot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Michael Jackson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ is not dead! He is alive and expressing his radical politic via street art as Banksy! The King is Dead, Long Live the King!! If we surmise that Banksy's true identity is someone who shares his concern for the people of world, MJ is a clear candidate. In addition to being the greatest entertainer of all time, Michael Jackson loved to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/mj_selfie_2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2209\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2209 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mj_selfie_2.jpg\" alt=\"Minimalist selfie by King Michael\" width=\"280\" height=\"390\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimalist selfie by King Michael (via \u003ca href=\"http://www.mjjcollectors.com/\">MJJ Collectors\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his humiliating public struggle with internalized colorism, he \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rep\">repped\u003c/a> black people HARD his whole life and loved music, especially black music. I think it makes sense that he would use Banksy as a cover to go to New Orleans post-Katrina and paint this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/banksy_black_band/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2202\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2202 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_black_band.jpg\" alt=\"banksy_black_band\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_black_band.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy_black_band-400x271.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://www.custompuzzlecraft.com/Weather/banksy.html\">John S. Stokes III\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Cecilia Jimenez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Jimenez is the woman who \"restored\" the Ecce Homo fresco into the super-meme \u003ca href=\"http://beastjesus.tumblr.com/\">Beast Jesus\u003c/a>. Is it a stretch to think that a mature, female artist might invent a young, masculine alter ego in order to be taken more seriously by an ageist and sexist culture? I think not. Beast Jesus can totally be read as a statement about Catholic symbology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/cecilia-gimenez_beast_jc/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2208\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2208\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Cecilia-Gim%C3%A9nez_beast_jc-300x158.jpg\" alt='What could \"Banksy\" be trying to say about the politics of \"restoration?\"' width=\"300\" height=\"158\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What could \"Banksy\" be trying to say about the politics of \"restoration?\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, the Jimenez piece is far more subtle, one might even say, more complex, than the obvious statement in this known Banksy piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 207px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/banksy-consumer-shopping-christ/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2219\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2219\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/banksy-consumer-shopping-christ-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"banksy consumer shopping christ\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from \u003ca href=\"http://iconsandimagery.blogspot.com/2011/02/christ-with-shopping-bags.html\">Icons & Imagery\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Jay Z\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \"\u003ca href=\"http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-moment-of-clarity-lyrics#note-9542\">Moment of Clarity\u003c/a>\" track on the Black album, Jay Z says: \"I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollas/They criticized me for it, yet they all yell 'holla!'\" This lyric isn't the only time Jay Z has expressed simultaneous regret and pride for leaving behind complexity for cash. What if he could have both worlds? What if he could sell dumbed-down records all day and paint overtly political street art at night? \u003ca href=\"http://rapgenius.com/9542/Jay-z-moment-of-clarity/I-dumbed-down-for-my-audience-to-double-my-dollars-they-criticized-me-for-it-yet-they-all-yell-holla\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 202px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/06/5-celebrities-who-might-be-banksy/thug-for-life-6x4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2213\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2213 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Thug-For-Life-6x4-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thug-For-Life-6x4\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via \u003ca href=\"http://raincoaster.com/category/banksy/page/2/\">raincoaster\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I mean, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk\" target=\"_blank\">\"99 Problems\"\u003c/a> has been interpreted as a statement about racial profiling. I can totally see Jay-Z-Banksy throwing the above piece up on a London wall. Except... If Banksy was Jay Z, the \"Banksy arrested\" thing would not be a hoax, it would be real. When people see a white guy doing things, a lot of times they assume whatever that guy is doing is okay, \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/bike-theft/story?id=10556016\">even when there is obvious reason to suspect otherwise\u003c/a>. Black guys, not so much. The success of Banksy's most famous escapades in civil disobedience -- adding altered classics to the walls in the Metropolitan Museum of Art dressed like the Pink Panther, jumping into a fenced-off Disneyland attraction -- relies as heavily on white privilege as it does on his artistic talent and sharp commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, my list is all fun and games, since \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-unmasked---public-schoolboy-middle-class-suburbia.html\">Banksy's true identity\u003c/a> has been an open secret since at least 2008. His name is Robin Gunningham. OR SO HE SAYS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-debate-of-our-times-taylor-swift/tay-demon-angel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2239\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2239 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tay-demon-angel.jpg\" alt=\"tay-demon-angel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tay-demon-angel.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tay-demon-angel-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Certain things get people really riled up. Bad grammar, toilet rolls that face in, \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/5971671/do-make-be-barf-the-year-in-goop\">Goop.com\u003c/a>. But nothing is as divisive as Taylor Swift, the love-obsessed songbird that inspires strong opinions on either end of the spectrum. The debate over whether Swift is a feminist or the worst person ever born has been quieter than usual as of late...until news broke that she took a shot at Tina Fey and Amy Poehler this morning (somewhere everyone's-favorite-punching-bag Anne Hathaway is breathing a little easier). So let's take a stroll down memory lane and remember all the times Tay Tay has won and lost the culture's favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>IN DEFENSE OF TAYLOR SWIFT:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch3>KanyeGate!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/ydswJSAfmZM&w=560&h=315\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor Swift has been making a name for herself since her country music days in 2006, but it wasn't until Kanye West decided she wasn't worthy of an MTV Music Video Award that most of us became familiar with her. Whether Kanye was right about Beyonce having the better video or not (she totally did), the public consensus was that Kanye was \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/obama-kanye-is-a-jackass_n_286623.html\">in President Obama's words\u003c/a> \"a jackass.\" Taylor instantly became our bullied little sister and America's sweetheart and all those other roles that are impossible to live up to and will eventually lead people to tear you off the pedestal they put you on (\u003ca href=\"http://youknowyoucare.com/wp-content/gallery/brit2/britney-spears-shaves-her-head.jpg\">just ask Britney\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pop Music Prodigy!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In these modern times, it has become increasingly difficult to separate an artist from their output due to the constant influx of paparrazi pictures and personal tweets and Oprah sit-downs. But when you peel away her public persona, it's pretty remarkable that someone as young as Swift can craft such catchy earworms that have even the snobbiest audiophiles proclaiming \"never ever ever!\" when they think no one is listening. She writes her own lyrics and plays the guitar, when most pop starlets rely on teams of writers and producers. That deserves some credit, even if you think her eyes look \"squinty\" or whatever.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sexist Double Standards!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A lot of the discourse over Taylor Swift revolves around the revolving door of her lovers. Granted, by writing popular songs about each and every one (Jake Gyllenhall was an indie music elitist! John Mayer was mean! Taylor Lautner was just too nice! etc.), Swift is putting a spotlight on the subject, but the intense scrutiny over her speed dating rings of sexism. Why is George Clooney a playboy while Taylor is a desperate floozy? She's in the prime of her life and should be allowed to casually date whomever she wants. She can have her freedom fries and eat them too, y'all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>INDEFENSIBLE TAYLOR SWIFT ACTS:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch3>I'm Not a Feminist!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/22/taylor-swift-dishes-on-her-new-album-red-dating-heartbreak-and-grey-s-anatomy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\">a recent interview with the Daily Beast\u003c/a>, when asked about whether she identified as a feminist, Taylor Swift joined the ranks of great philosophers like Katy Perry and Lady Gaga in proclaiming that she does not consider herself one. \"I don't really think about things as guys versus girls. I never have. I was raised by parents who brought me up to think if you work as hard as guys, you can go far in life.\" Ugh. Ok, since everyone in the entire world will read this blog post, I will use this space to once and for all clarify the meaning of a feminist. It's not a boys vs. girls thing. Boys can be feminists too! Because all that being a feminist entails is the belief that women are equal to their male counterparts and deserve the same political, social, and economic equality that has been bestowed on men since some Disney villain came up with patriarchy. Damn, girl, read a book!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Slut Shaming!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://tumboy.tumblr.com/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/1/14/11/anigif_enhanced-buzz-8273-1358180368-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: tumboy.tumblr.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boys don't get off easy in Swift songs, but Taylor saves the most lethal venom for \"the other woman.\" Even when Taylor is trying to steal some girl's man on their wedding day (seriously), she derides the woman who stands in her way solely for having something Swift wants too. That's not very neighborly. While lyrics like \"She wears short skirts/I wear t-shirts\" and \"Was she worth this mess after everything and that little black dress\" are bad, the most egregious instance of Taylor promoting the tiresome Madonna/Whore paradigm can be found in a song called \"Better than Revenge:\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>She's not a saint\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> And she's not what you think\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> She's an actress\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> She's better known\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> For the things that she does\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> On the mattress\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When I think about Taylor's confusion about what feminism means or falling into girls vs. girls tropes, I try to remember all the stupid things I said when I was in my teens and early twenties. The difference is no one was putting them on record (although certain AOL chat transcripts and one very unfortunate I'm-drunk-for-the-first-time-and-doing-a-Real-World-confessional recording do exist somewhere out there). Despite some poorly worded answers and snarky lyrics, Taylor Swift probably is a feminist and, surprise surprise, a person just like you or me who does as best as she can, but still makes mistakes and then learns from them and grows to be a better version of herself every day. So let's cut her some slack, okay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the slack-cutting ceremony will have to wait until tomorrow because today Taylor Swift has turned me from this rabid fan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/5TL7ksX_iSM&w=560&h=315\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">To this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/we%20were%20all%20rooting%20for%20you!\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lgz7UgaY1qfi02h.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: left\">Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Have a One-Way Ticket to Hades!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an interview with \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>, Taylor was asked her opinion on a joke Tina Fey and Amy Poehler told while hosting the Golden Globes about her staying away from Michael J. Fox's underage son and instead taking some \"me time.\" What Taylor should have said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was honored to even be mentioned by them! Tina through her writing and Amy through her Smart Girls at the Party web series have done so much for women and young girls and I hope I can enact positive change like they have someday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Taylor actually said (brace yourself, it's the worst):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people, because she said to me she had heard a quote that she loved, that said, 'There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not sure how you're feeling, but I'm somewhere in the neighborhood of feeling like the man I've been married to for years is actually an ax-murderer who eats puppies alive and was the reason \u003cem>Arrested Development\u003c/em> was cancelled. I recently received a Taylor Swift pin for my jacket as a gift and I have worn it with pride and echoed Lena Dunham when people question Taylor's artistic value: \"Anyone who tries to debate Taylor Swift with me, I’m like, “You are an uninformed consumer, and you will be shut down. You’re not doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this gives me great pause. A harmless joke lands you in hell?! I can't defend going after two of the most brilliant women on the pop culture circuit (who's next? Sasha Obama?) and all I can do is send a message to Taylor in animated gif form:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/you+in+danger+girl\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/a9d51d0b66fec369ced0dcda366b92ab/tumblr_mj405geKmU1rdeykbo1_400.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there you have it: Taylor Swift is not a demon or a saint. She's somewhere in between like the rest of us and the real problem isn't that she lets us down occasionally, but that we expect public figures not to.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-debate-of-our-times-taylor-swift/tay-demon-angel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2239\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2239 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tay-demon-angel.jpg\" alt=\"tay-demon-angel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tay-demon-angel.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/tay-demon-angel-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Certain things get people really riled up. Bad grammar, toilet rolls that face in, \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/5971671/do-make-be-barf-the-year-in-goop\">Goop.com\u003c/a>. But nothing is as divisive as Taylor Swift, the love-obsessed songbird that inspires strong opinions on either end of the spectrum. The debate over whether Swift is a feminist or the worst person ever born has been quieter than usual as of late...until news broke that she took a shot at Tina Fey and Amy Poehler this morning (somewhere everyone's-favorite-punching-bag Anne Hathaway is breathing a little easier). So let's take a stroll down memory lane and remember all the times Tay Tay has won and lost the culture's favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>IN DEFENSE OF TAYLOR SWIFT:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch3>KanyeGate!\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ydswJSAfmZM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ydswJSAfmZM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Taylor Swift has been making a name for herself since her country music days in 2006, but it wasn't until Kanye West decided she wasn't worthy of an MTV Music Video Award that most of us became familiar with her. Whether Kanye was right about Beyonce having the better video or not (she totally did), the public consensus was that Kanye was \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/obama-kanye-is-a-jackass_n_286623.html\">in President Obama's words\u003c/a> \"a jackass.\" Taylor instantly became our bullied little sister and America's sweetheart and all those other roles that are impossible to live up to and will eventually lead people to tear you off the pedestal they put you on (\u003ca href=\"http://youknowyoucare.com/wp-content/gallery/brit2/britney-spears-shaves-her-head.jpg\">just ask Britney\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pop Music Prodigy!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In these modern times, it has become increasingly difficult to separate an artist from their output due to the constant influx of paparrazi pictures and personal tweets and Oprah sit-downs. But when you peel away her public persona, it's pretty remarkable that someone as young as Swift can craft such catchy earworms that have even the snobbiest audiophiles proclaiming \"never ever ever!\" when they think no one is listening. She writes her own lyrics and plays the guitar, when most pop starlets rely on teams of writers and producers. That deserves some credit, even if you think her eyes look \"squinty\" or whatever.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sexist Double Standards!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A lot of the discourse over Taylor Swift revolves around the revolving door of her lovers. Granted, by writing popular songs about each and every one (Jake Gyllenhall was an indie music elitist! John Mayer was mean! Taylor Lautner was just too nice! etc.), Swift is putting a spotlight on the subject, but the intense scrutiny over her speed dating rings of sexism. Why is George Clooney a playboy while Taylor is a desperate floozy? She's in the prime of her life and should be allowed to casually date whomever she wants. She can have her freedom fries and eat them too, y'all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>INDEFENSIBLE TAYLOR SWIFT ACTS:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch3>I'm Not a Feminist!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/22/taylor-swift-dishes-on-her-new-album-red-dating-heartbreak-and-grey-s-anatomy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\">a recent interview with the Daily Beast\u003c/a>, when asked about whether she identified as a feminist, Taylor Swift joined the ranks of great philosophers like Katy Perry and Lady Gaga in proclaiming that she does not consider herself one. \"I don't really think about things as guys versus girls. I never have. I was raised by parents who brought me up to think if you work as hard as guys, you can go far in life.\" Ugh. Ok, since everyone in the entire world will read this blog post, I will use this space to once and for all clarify the meaning of a feminist. It's not a boys vs. girls thing. Boys can be feminists too! Because all that being a feminist entails is the belief that women are equal to their male counterparts and deserve the same political, social, and economic equality that has been bestowed on men since some Disney villain came up with patriarchy. Damn, girl, read a book!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Slut Shaming!\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://tumboy.tumblr.com/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/1/14/11/anigif_enhanced-buzz-8273-1358180368-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: tumboy.tumblr.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boys don't get off easy in Swift songs, but Taylor saves the most lethal venom for \"the other woman.\" Even when Taylor is trying to steal some girl's man on their wedding day (seriously), she derides the woman who stands in her way solely for having something Swift wants too. That's not very neighborly. While lyrics like \"She wears short skirts/I wear t-shirts\" and \"Was she worth this mess after everything and that little black dress\" are bad, the most egregious instance of Taylor promoting the tiresome Madonna/Whore paradigm can be found in a song called \"Better than Revenge:\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>She's not a saint\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> And she's not what you think\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> She's an actress\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> She's better known\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> For the things that she does\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> On the mattress\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When I think about Taylor's confusion about what feminism means or falling into girls vs. girls tropes, I try to remember all the stupid things I said when I was in my teens and early twenties. 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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier today, \u003ca href=\"http://postalservicemusic.net/\" target=\"_blank\">The Postal Service\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.funnyordie.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die\u003c/a> issued a hilarious video of auditions to get everyone pumped up for \u003ca href=\"http://www.subpop.com/channel/blog/postal_service_give_up_reissue_and_spring_tour\" target=\"_blank\">the re-release of The Postal Service's album \u003cem>Give Up \u003c/em>\u003c/a>in April. Both Aimee Mann and and Weird Al do awesome interpretations of Postal Service classics (when you only have one album, every song is a classic), though Moby really wins the day with his audition meltdown. Ah, 2002. What a hard time we all were having on Friendster and Myspace...\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.funnyordie.com/embed/0dadfc1070\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;font-size: x-small;margin-top: 0;width: 640px\">\u003ca title=\"from Ben Gibbard, Tom Scharpling, Al Yankovic, Rob Hatch-Miller, Aimee Mann, Moby, Duff McKagan, Nate Mendel, Page Hamilton, Tom DeLonge, Funny Or Die, Puloma Basu, Jon Daly, DC Pierson, Jon Wurster, sub pop records, FODfm, and Marc Maron\" href=\"http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0dadfc1070/the-postal-service-auditions\">The Postal Service Auditions\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.funnyordie.com/ben_gibbard\">Ben Gibbard\u003c/a> \u003ciframe style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 90px;height: 21px;vertical-align: middle\" src=\"http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?app_id=138711277798&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funnyordie.com%2Fvideos%2F0dadfc1070%2Fthe-postal-service-auditions&send=false&layout=button_count&width=150&show_faces=false&action=like&height=21\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Anyway, all the nostalgia for that year when every single Postal Service song MADE SO MUCH SENSE TO MY LIFE because I was 20 and of course heart broken and lonely and living in the Pacific Northwest, reminded me that so many amazing covers of Postal Service jams already exist and there is absolutely no better way to spend a Tuesday than watching any or all of them on repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ben Folds: Such Great Heights (\u003cstrong>MYSPACE GIG)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0088956/quotes\" target=\"_blank\">What's the difference between like and love?\u003c/a> At 19, I liked the Postal Service, but I LOVED Ben Folds. In this classic from Myspace, the audience pulls out flip-phones and plays along with Ben. Dream life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4v8X_Zi-xY]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>carnivalkidxx: This Place is a Prison\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what's even harder than the beginning of college? The end of college. Imagine this: you are an entitled, sort of lazy, self-involved, aimless 23-year-old living with \u003ca href=\"http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-29844-from_the_elbow_1_career_opportunities.html\" target=\"_blank\">your little brother\u003c/a> WHO WILL NOT PICK UP HIS SOCKS, your feet are always wet due to the fact that it won't stop raining and the only time you aren't hung over is when you are drunk. You know what song makes a lot of sense at that point? This one. \"You may case the grounds from the Cascades to the Puget Sound, but you aren't permitted to leave.\" Whoa. Can't someone install a high-speed train to Los Angeles? Counter girls can't afford plane tickets. Note: \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/5Mjj_2X1sGs\" target=\"_blank\">each cover\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARak20zNRzQ\" target=\"_blank\">of this song\u003c/a> on YouTube is sadder than the last. I felt this one really encapsulated the hopeless, dark sadness and inevitable missed notes and bad guitar playing of the whole thing. Even though the video is a panda for some reason, which really undercuts the HUMAN EMOTION here. You can also \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/iiRZ6NM0OuQ\" target=\"_blank\">watch Ben Gibbard\u003c/a> do it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMpdMz7pKs]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Shins: We Will Become Silhouettes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis is the classic \"who is covering whom?\" situation, but the truth of this song is The Postal Service wrote it and played it first and then their neighbors, The Shins (The Postal Service was from Seattle and The Shins from Portland), played it their way and probably made it even more popular. The 2000s were a time of neighborly sharing and desperation. How lucky we made it out alive!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HECF_RHAYo]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chasing Weekends: Sleeping In\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is only one Postal Service song you can play on the ukulele without getting punched in the face and that is \"Sleeping In,\" which is all about magical thinking and literal dreaming. In your early twenties in the Pacific Northwest in the winter, the only time happy ukulele music is even mildly appropriate is in your dreams. Otherwise, it's Elliot Smith until you pass out. This adorable little girl and her puppy have clearly never experienced Seasonal Affective Disorder but I forgive her because she is just so cute and taking this genuinely tragic song so literally!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNU3QvZw5c]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ben Gibbard, Jenny Lewis and the audience: Nothing Better\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't strictly a cover since The Postal Service is half Ben Gibbard and Jenny Lewis actually sang this song on the album. However, this live acoustic version of the impossible love song that basically defined my life in early college is less melancholy than the original and less heartbreaking, but still as beautiful. \"Don't you feed me lies about some idealistic future. 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"content": "\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 277px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/3s3tcr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2066\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2066 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/3s3tcr.jpg\" alt=\"3s3tcr\" width=\"277\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/3s3tcr.jpg 625w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/3s3tcr-400x492.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How was life worth living without Grumpy Cat memes?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was talking about someone with my friend, and she wrinkled up her face and said definitively, “That girl reeks of grad school.” I laughed because I knew exactly what she meant. 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I’m not talking about people who attend higher education to study Medicine, Law, or Social Work -- people who actually might make a difference in someone else’s life in the future. And even though I was in a Fine Art program, I still don’t know anything. So before you get your panties in a bunch, you might want to just take off your underwear while you read this. The opinion of lil old me is nothing more than a comment from the caustic peanut gallery of the old men on the Muppets and if you can’t take it, leave it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ym2L1urOz8&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>SMELLY GRAD SCHOOL TRAITS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are in grad school or recently got out, no amount of perfume is going to cover up the reek that everyone you know and love finds a little revolting. It will only stop festering when you learn to recognize your particular bouquet, made up of some or all of the following personality traits you picked up while doing your time inside. I’m not saying that I’m immune or cleansed of any of these, but I am in a self-help program called reality, and I’m doing my best to wash regularly. Also, I found a bunch of cartoon personalities to make it easier to recognize similar attributes in yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Glad-Hander\u003c/strong>: Your friends have come to the conclusion that they cannot take you to events. When a friend extends an invitation to something, you will make them rattle off who else will be there to network with before you consider going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 107px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/quimby/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2078\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2078 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/quimby-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons\" width=\"107\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Know-it-All\u003c/strong>: No one would ever want to be stuck in a conversation with you alone at a party. You will proceed to tell everyone that any idea they’ve ever had has been done before, and where and when. 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Even worse, most of your news is mediocre at best, but you will put it all in a monthly newsletter clogging inboxes around the nation anyway. You announce your birthday in the same way, as if it were the only birthday known to man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 180px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/bobs-burgers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2080\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2080 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bobs-burgers-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Gene's girlfriend on Bob's Burgers\" width=\"180\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene's girlfriend on Bob's Burgers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unsolicited Advisor\u003c/strong>: Someone somewhere gave you the idea that you know more about life than anyone else. You proceed to cut people off mid-sentence to tell them how to handle their stress, money and other people giving them advice, oblivious to the fact that no one asked you for help. You might even go so far as to explain feminist theory to a woman in your stupid dude voice. Mmkay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 180px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/mr-garrison/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2081\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/mr-garrison-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"mr-garrison\" width=\"180\" height=\"134\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Garrison from South Park\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Morose Bummer-a-thon\u003c/strong>: All you talk about is how you wish you had more pills and the better school you wish you had gotten into and the fact that everyone is against you. You forget that you’re not in high school anymore and this is art school and everyone is a weirdo too and no one is judging you for being gay or socially handicapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 180px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/020810daria1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2082\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2082 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/020810daria1-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Daria\" width=\"180\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daria\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Frantic Busy-Bee\u003c/strong>: You flit around telling people dramatically about all the things you are doing, the show you’re in, and how you are just SO BUSY! You’re so stressed! You forget that no one cares about your group show/reading, etc. and that everyone around you has the same exact deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 117px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/francine_smith___american_dad_by_leeroberts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2092\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2092 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Francine_Smith___American_Dad_by_LeeRoberts.png\" alt=\"Francine_Smith___American_Dad_by_LeeRoberts\" width=\"117\" height=\"174\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francine Smith from American Dad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Idealistic Child\u003c/strong>: You’re one of those weirdos who never took a break from school, from Kindergarten to your first year of grad school. You forget how soon this insular bubble will pop and you’ll have to start paying back your loans with something you’ve never had and are not qualified for: a job. It hits you a month before graduation and suddenly your face is permanently twisted with fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 179px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/butters-pic-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2083\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2083 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Butters-Pic-1-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Butters from South Park\" width=\"179\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butters from South Park\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Snobby Pisser\u003c/strong>: Because you have the gift of dropping impressive and obscure theory at the drop of a hat, and peddling it into show proposals at major museums, you end up with a free ride to a school where everyone else has to take out loans worth more than they will ever make in their lifetimes to attend. You insist on pissing on your school at every opportunity, making everyone who was dumb enough to pay for what you got for free feel like kicking their education down the road like a can full of poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/200px-c-bob/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2089\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2089 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/200px-C-bob.png\" alt=\"Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons\" width=\"120\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Political Fist Pumper\u003c/strong>: You shame everyone with your work, smugly chastising anyone who does not share your political beliefs. You make everyone feel bad about everything, and it wins you award after award because establishments are all filled with guilt. You never acknowledge the fact that if you were interested in truly changing anything, you would have become an environmental lawyer or something useful instead of back-patter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 144px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/americandad_hayley_240x260_091420100101/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2084\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2084 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/americanDad_hayley_240x260_091420100101.jpg\" alt=\"Haley Smith from American Dad\" width=\"144\" height=\"156\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haley Smith from American Dad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Hand-Biter\u003c/strong>: You get into grad school knowing the price tag only to complain constantly about the cost, as if someone higher up in academia will say, “You’re right!” and throw money down from the sky for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 180px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/americandad_roger/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2085\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2085 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/AmericanDad_Roger.gif\" alt=\"Roger the Alien from American Dad\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger the Alien from American Dad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>L'Enfant Terrible\u003c/strong>: Even though you are lucky enough to have a family that pays for you to dick around in art school, you pretend you can still be punk rock in a major institution by literally pissing on the walls of your studio. Sucks to be you, next door neighbor!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/peter-griffin-outfit/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2093\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2093 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/peter-griffin-outfit-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Griffin from Family Guy\" width=\"240\" height=\"176\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Griffin from Family Guy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Prince\u003c/strong>: You assume that, since your advisors are being paid to talk to you, everyone else on staff is, too. You delegate to the guards, the janitors, and the receptionist, as if paying for school buys you slaves. You don’t realize that you are paying a fortune to BE the slave to your education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 178px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/mrburns/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2097\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2097 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/MrBurns-297x300.gif\" alt=\"Mr. Burns from the Simpsons\" width=\"178\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Burns from the Simpsons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Friender\u003c/strong>: You forget that almost everyone in your studio is getting paid to talk to you and you won’t quite come to terms with the fact that none of them want to hang out with you when you graduate. In fact, the door will leave a huge bruise on your ass on the way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 113px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/images-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2091\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2091 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Craig from South Park\" width=\"113\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig from South Park\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/0zzzm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2067\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2067 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/0zzzm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"0zzzm\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nI really tried to find grad movies to illustrate my points, but then I realized that there are hardly any movies about grad school. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>SMELLY GRAD SCHOOL TRAITS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are in grad school or recently got out, no amount of perfume is going to cover up the reek that everyone you know and love finds a little revolting. It will only stop festering when you learn to recognize your particular bouquet, made up of some or all of the following personality traits you picked up while doing your time inside. I’m not saying that I’m immune or cleansed of any of these, but I am in a self-help program called reality, and I’m doing my best to wash regularly. Also, I found a bunch of cartoon personalities to make it easier to recognize similar attributes in yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Glad-Hander\u003c/strong>: Your friends have come to the conclusion that they cannot take you to events. When a friend extends an invitation to something, you will make them rattle off who else will be there to network with before you consider going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 107px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/quimby/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2078\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2078 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/quimby-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons\" width=\"107\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Know-it-All\u003c/strong>: No one would ever want to be stuck in a conversation with you alone at a party. You will proceed to tell everyone that any idea they’ve ever had has been done before, and where and when. You will then start referencing theory no one cares to listen to, and everyone around you cries ‘yield’ and slowly walks away backward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 130px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/lisa-reading-lisa-simpson-642106_739_1024/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2079\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2079 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/Lisa-reading-lisa-simpson-642106_739_1024-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Simpson\" width=\"130\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Simpson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Star\u003c/strong>: You boldly boast of all the things you’ve been doing lately, all your latest and greatest achievements, and name-drop who you’ve been working with in every social media outlet available. Even worse, most of your news is mediocre at best, but you will put it all in a monthly newsletter clogging inboxes around the nation anyway. You announce your birthday in the same way, as if it were the only birthday known to man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 180px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/05/the-reek-of-grad-school/bobs-burgers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2080\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-2080 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/03/bobs-burgers-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Gene's girlfriend on Bob's Burgers\" width=\"180\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene's girlfriend on Bob's Burgers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unsolicited Advisor\u003c/strong>: Someone somewhere gave you the idea that you know more about life than anyone else. 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