YOU TOO, CAN BECOME THE MAYOR OF SASSY CITY: I suspect for a certain portion of our audience, the news that someone has begun
scanning excerpts from random issues of Sassy (poor 90s fashion decisions! an advice column from Beck! "Zines of the month!") will be cause for celebration.
It looks like Google Books finally got the rest of Spy posted. Here's the most important article of Spy's run.
ReplyDeleteI still have the R.E.M. single that came as a pullout in one issue of Sassy. You had to put quarters on it to stabilize it on the turntable. And it was square.
ReplyDeleteThe song was "Dark Globe" and that was when I found out about Syd Barrett.
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Started with YM, moved to Sassy, moved to Jane, moved to Allure. Oh magazines, you are my pop culture shame. How I love you.
ReplyDeleteSpacewoman and another reader of this blog found a cardboard box full of old Sassys (Sassies?) at a thrift store and dragged home a pile of them. We (yeah, I said it, we) spotted pre-fame intern Chloe Sevigne, with whom the whole damned Sassy staff seemed lost-our-minds in love. She was an intern for like a year but she got photo spreads and advice columns and gratuitous mentions? Jesus.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I'm hard pressed to think of anything that could be wrong with a teen fashion magazine that featured bands like L7. Nothing wrong with saying to an audience, "prom is important to you, we get that, but there is a whole world out there, and at some point you might just want to partake of some kind of holy ruckus. And I looked at that picture of L7 and tried to remember which one ODed. Thought it was Donita Sparks. Trick question, though -- none of the above.
My sister will die when she reads this.
ReplyDeleteWe just cleaned out my husband's parents' crawl space and found a whole box of Dynamite! magazines - remember, those ones that came from Scholastic in the early 80s? Sold a bunch of them on eBay - they're really amazing in a kitschy way. Perhaps best of all was an issue with Lisa Whelchel on the cover that had an article about what it's like to be a young model. The 11-year-old girl featured is Jennifer Connolly.
A few years ago I went a bit eBay crazy and managed to "complete" my Sassy collection. I even have photocopies of the unpublished "Celebrity Produced Issue" (Mary Clarke sent it to me!) that was in the works right when Peterson bought Sassy.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else read Star Hits/Smash Hits? Good times.
ReplyDeleteYou are my hero. I saved my collection for years, but at some point let them go. Luckily, based on my vivid memories of the pages that are being posted on Tumblr (I coveted that blue/red dress in the prairie spread *forever*), at least I spent a lot of time with them back in the day!
ReplyDeleteI do recall a prior thread (and tried to find it) in which Spacewoman's Stack of Sassys was discussed.
ReplyDeleteHey, I just found those again when we moved! They are AWESOME.
ReplyDeleteI just read "How Sassy Changed My Life" last month - it did not live up to expectations.
ReplyDeleteI just read "How Sassy Changed My Life" last month - it did not live up to expectations.
ReplyDeleteSpacewoman, you are my people! I still have my copy of Star Hits from 1987-88 w/Robert Smith on the cover. (We got to find out what was in his handbag!)
ReplyDeleteI WISH it were my stack of Sassys!
ReplyDeleteWhy are we not writing that?
ReplyDeleteYes!! And the awesome story of the time he fatefully fell asleep during a long distance phone call and woke up to a $200 phone bill.
ReplyDeleteSaid sister is totally dying upon hearing this. :)
ReplyDeleteI kept all my Sassys in a plastic tub in my mom's attic for years. I thought it was still there, but when I went to look for it a couple of years ago, it was gone. I think I tossed them sometime in college, and I still regret it. Can't wait to spend some time with the scans.
I purchased a Sassy on Ebay about a year ago, thinking it was one of the "Sassiest Girl in America" issues, but was only mildly disappointed to realize it was a regular issue. It was still awesome. I was in love with Sassy from day one. I never felt quite cool enough to read it (which was way better than not being pretty/popular enough to read YM or Seventeen), but I loved their attitude about pretty much everything. They recognized that teenage girls has real brains and real problems, that they could like makeup and doc martens at the same time, that we might want to discover bands beyond the top 40, or idolize girls our age for making a difference, not having good skin. Sassy was incredibly important to my teenage years. (And I also loved the book "Sassy Changed My Life.")
I loved Dynamite! magazine, and read them all for a while. I have pretty clear memories of the covers, and I know I used a pull-out poster of John Travolta in a class presentation (in which, with horror, we unrolled it as the portrait of our new president).
ReplyDeleteI think More magazine may be the 40s-and-up semi-equivalent -- a magazine that, in between fashion and such, has interesting articles on women who've made a difference. It's got some fluff and some seriousness. And I love the cover models, who are generally 40s/50s.
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