I’m sure it has been said before, but Chris Rock’s well known bit is deeply reactionary. A whole lot of ideology in that, bad ideology.
And like, perhaps worse, not fucking funny
bcuz the nigger / black guy distinction was particular to the way the ‘90s recovered out of the '80s freefall and to how the '00s had expected a straight-line progression from there
Nowadays, even if people are trying to recreate this style they can’t. Because these were sincerely the best that people could do with computers back then. There’s just something in the charm of 90’s computer graphics that hasn’t been recreated by anything since.
tl;dr Reboot was the height of computer animation.
Almost feels like cheating to pick the one in the middle, but 1995. We were finally fully out of the 80s, the election actually made 1996 more continuous with them, and 1997’s my personal fave but you were really starting to be continuous with the early 2000s by then
Walked by the park and they’ve filled the pool again this year and the afterhours teenagers were back, playing and flirting and listening to like, Sex and Candy and Possum Kingdom, in a really on-the-nose demonstration that Portland is back to being the wonderland I dreamed of in 90s high school
From the week of the Seinfeld finale, 1998. Notice Fox programmed no 10-11PM block and the even newer WB and UPN only programmed some nights a week; in the remaining time network-affiliated stations aired their own programming. Before these networks were established, most such stations were full-time independent, and had experience assembling packages of movies, (often decade+ old) reruns, and first-run syndicated programs
Got any more info on the Dixie-fixation of the white working class in the last few decades? I was starting to feel like nobody else had noticed how weird all that is. As an aside, as a fan of a lot of 70s/80s rock, the consequences of the southern spread were disastrous. People from the rust belt should not be listening to country music, it’s weird and unnatural.
I mean I can spitball some more, the Billy Ray Cyrus boom was really simultaneous with the emergence of “alternative” AND gangsta rap, as culture industries focused on audience segmentation after the fairly pan-racial pop ‘80s melting pot
Pissed that LA hair metal pretty boys and fucking Gwar stole Kiss’ stage spectacle schtick?
During closing arguments in the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, one of Heard’s attorneys, Benjamin Rottenborn, described a series of Catch-22s that often ensnare women who, like Heard, accuse their partners of domestic violence. “If you didn’t take pictures, it didn’t happen; if you did take pictures, they’re fake,” he said. “If you didn’t tell your friends, you’re lying; and if you did tell your friends, they’re part of the hoax. If you didn’t seek medical treatment, you weren’t injured; if you did seek medical treatment, you’re crazy.”
I mean it strikes me that people’s issues with Heard aren’t so much that, put in a no-win situation, she didn’t win, but that she was even trying to win, that as she continued in the relationship she acted in ways that weren’t even attempts to get what she wanted in the relationship, but set herself up in a better position to portray the relationship to others afterwards – including but not limited to in court – in a way that won their sympathy and advanced her overall position in life to which the relationship was just one aspect (presumably, in expectation of it ending – it’s unclear what she could do with documentation of abuse in a world where the semipublic relationship continued)
It strikes me that this – conducting your life for the sake of winning public sympathy battles after the fact – might be the real of-the-moment thing the culture is publicly condemning here.
Also like, if Tim Burton’s muse and Marilyn Manson turn out to be critical to the courtroom theatre of the culture war I’m gonna have to re-evaluate mallgoths some
this is the only fragment of south park i’ve ever seen in my life
You ever think about how between The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy, animation kinda stole Broadway’s leading role in American musical theater in the ‘90s?
My little pony and Disney, too!
MLP was later, but I guess it did really start with the Disney Renaissance. Hm, maybe link to AIDS’ devastation of the Broadway community in the ‘80s
this is the only fragment of south park i’ve ever seen in my life
You ever think about how between The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy, animation kinda stole Broadway’s leading role in American musical theater in the ‘90s?
