The 1994 Popeye pinball table (“Popeye Saves the Earth”) is this great document from the Captain Planet era where they were seriously trying out environmentalism as the moral equivalent of war
It’s also testament to Data East’s license-happiness, like who was asking for this?
I remember in the ‘90s when the reputation of France was just pissy fucks mowing bulldozers through McDonalds and other Adbusters shit
People act like Ross “I just want to marry a girl and be soulmates forever” Geller was some sort of anachronistic throwback, but Phoebe “I am both the reaction to and continuation of my WASP New Ager parents” Buffay was far more period-bound
For people who were into anime in the 90s, here’s a HQ version of the Ryoko gif every anime fan had on their Geocities page!
animenostalgia: For people who were into anime in the 90s, here’s a HQ version of the Ryoko gif every anime fan had on their Geocities page!
So a thing about the ‘90s is at the time the Bruce Timm animated Batman was a less important superhero TV reboot than Lois & Clark, the hourlong Superman remake/neo-screwball romance about new sexual equality in the urban professional workplace
just reminded how ’90s Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri was
the environmentalist faction leader was Lady Deirdre Skye
me: oh hey we passed [RESPECTABLE_NUMBER] of followers also me: if this was 1998 we'd commission a horny drawing to celebrate
this bar has cans of White Claw, a “hard seltzer”
YOU STUPID FUCKS
it wasn’t enough for you to reinvent Perrier as La Croix
YOU JUST REINVENTED ZIMA
Levantine Uber driver faking an American accent just asked if the (chill rock) music was ok, I said yes and he turned it to angry Sixteen Stone-era Bush anyway
honestly you read the old Sterling/Gibson-era cyberpunk it doesn’t seem far off from where we are now
you pay attention to the downsizing/rightsizing era that brought us Dilbert, and Falling Down, and Office Space, and it doesn’t seem far off
but then the internet happened!
and it bought us two decades, apparently
the bike messenger thing!
“We Will All Be Vulnerable Temp Contract Workers In Hypercapitalist San Francisco”!
Twice today tried to google something I’d googled before and couldn’t find it
First, this classic comic on 90s net furry culture which in row 3 column 2 invokes the old concept of “furry gay” (as distinct from gender dysphoria, r1c2)
The 90s had a richer concept of pansexuality as, ah, undiscrimination
ANYWAY, the second was that Richard Seymour attempt to schism the SWP with Laurie Penny (and China Mieville, thus their faction were the “Sino-Seymourists”)
look out for those memory holes!
Speaking of British pop!
(Do you remember Richard “Lenin’s Tomb” Seymour? Do you remember how, Hitchens-like, he smoothly picked up and dropped George Galloway and RESPECT? How he picked up and pretended to respect Laurie fucking Penny [that musta stung] to loudly schism the SWP out from under its leadership with collegiate “rape culture” culture? Do you remember how he went quiet as it immediately got schismed out from under him the same exact way? I do!)
(because I consider him someone worth keeping eyes on)just remembered that ‘90s SNL skit where some frat guys rub a lamp and get a genie and wish to like “see two lesbians getting it on until we bust a nut”
and they get two lumpy greyhairs interrupting tedious foreplay to ask if the other picked up bulgur for their solstice potluck
‘90s lesbian chic, do you remember that? That Tanya Chalkin “Kiss” poster, that’s gotta be one of the most ‘90s things in the world
When I moved into a house last year of college it had two different copies of that Kiss poster already on the walls
just remembered that ‘90s SNL skit where some frat guys rub a lamp and get a genie and wish to like “see two lesbians getting it on until we bust a nut”
and they get two lumpy greyhairs interrupting tedious foreplay to ask if the other picked up bulgur for their solstice potluck
