I’m getting obsessed with “View from the Top Floor,” Marc Miller’s carefully curated website that looks back at East Village history as seen from his perch at 98 Bowery. Here, he posts audio clips of answering machine messages that he’s saved, forming “a sound portrait of my life in the 1980’s composed of the voices of the people who were in it.” And here, he briefly discusses a column he wrote for the now-defunct East Village Eye from 1983 – 1986: “‘Miller’s Memorabilia’ specialized in unearthing obscure pictures from the past that would resonate with the East Village crowd.”
Predictably, there’s a Facebook fan page called “I Want My 90’s Nickelodeon Back.” 1,088,253 people “like” it and have thrown their support behind the cause: “To Mobilize Fans To Actively Participate and Take Part In Efforts To Return Shows That Were On Nickelodeon During the 1990’s.”
Skye Ferrante cannot write if it’s not on a typewriter, and his colleagues at the Writers’ Room can’t take the noise. There used to be a room reserved for noisy typists–mostly older folks–but they’ve all died, leaving Ferrante as the only typewriter-user who needs accommodating, in a space designed to be a quiet haven. Lest we forget, the Daily News points out that “[t]he 37-year-old writer represented a bygone era.”
In her BEA coverage, the LA Times‘ Carolyn Kellogg reminds us that the imminent death of publishing has been forecast almost as long as the written word has existed. “Twenty-five years ago, it was corporate conglomeration that was going to kill publishing, then the advent of chain retailers such as Borders and Barnes & Noble and later the rise of Amazon.com. Even as far back as the 15th century, Venetian judge Filippo di Strata declared of Gutenberg’s movable type, ‘The pen is a virgin; the printing press, a whore.’” (!!!) Kellogg continues: “What may be new is the exhaustion in the top ranks. [ICM agent Esther] Newberg expressed what other publishing veterans won’t say out loud: ‘One of the only good things about being old is that I won’t have to deal with this.’”
Flavorwire takes a look at some defunct magazines they didn’t know existed. My favorite is a parenting mag matter-of-factly called “Offspring.”
For this week’s Look Book, NY Mag goes to the prom, with a feature that reminds me of Seventeen’s old “School Zone.”
Here’s a really nice piece by Emma Kat Richardson at Bookslut, on You Couldn’t Ignore Me if You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation. She calls it “the latest in a recent trilogy of Generation X nostalgia volumes from the disaffected (now middle-aged) youth who defined an era of irony and cynicism,” the others being (arguably) Marisa Meltzer’s Girl Power and Lizzie Skurnick’s Shelf Discovery.
In his review of Get Him to The Greek (a title that made me think, whenever I saw the poster, that this was somehow a movie about a fraternity, which made me confused), A.O. Scott finds that “sometimes debauchery can serve as nostalgia.”
Jeremiah Moss blogs about Bill’s Gay Nineties, an NYC bar that opened as a speakeasy in 1924, and was 1890s-themed. Apparently, the 1890s were very trendy in the 1920s.
No more books? No more handwritten inscriptions! “[T]here’s something else that may be lost if old-style books fade from the scene: the personality that authors — and the people who give books to others as presents — sometimes leave for posterity with their handwritten inscriptions….If e-books end up largely replacing traditional books, where would the extra personality that comes with an inscription go?”
I’ve really been enjoying geeking out on Stephen Vider’s blog, The Lazy Scholar, where he writes about the tantalizing array of archival material that’s available online. I especially loved his recent post on yearbooks. The presence of those glossy colored inserts so often stuck in the middle, he writes, “sadly exposes how generic most yearbooks actually are—they typically reveal less about any single place and time than they do about the art and sometimes artlessness of nostalgia.”
Cracked’s list of “5 Guilty Pleasures the Web Killed While You Weren’t Looking” offers some nostalgia for social shunning, one-night stands, and “hiding your stupid past.”
And in The Atlantic, James Parker dubs Lady Gaga “The Last Pop Star“: “…[W]ho will be post-Gaga? Nobody. She’s finishing it off, each of her productions gleefully laying waste to another area of possibility.”
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If you’re reading this, you’re all set, pardner!
Geez, that’s unbelievable. Kudos and such.
I was struck by the honesty of your posting
One or two to remember, that is.
It’s imperative that more people make this exact point.