One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery
What’s the value of music when your life is falling apart? How did that “ten…
Em Dashes and Witch Hunts With New Literary Inquisitors
It’s 2025, and I find myself caught in an ironic 21st-century witch hunt. Only this…
Love My Way: The Psychedelic Furs and the Marimba That Woke Me Up
What if one song could tell you it was okay to exist exactly as you…
When Free Speech Fought Back in 1985
Are we safe if a comedian does not have free speech? Were we safe when…
Pee Wee Herman: Lessons From a Manchild
By Rachael Price Nowadays, one does not usually understand the term “manchild” to be a…
Chrissie Hynde Taught Me How to Listen
What do a Midwestern punk queen from Ohio and a Beauty Queen from Chicagoland have…
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The Breakfast Club Library Confessions and Beautiful Tribes
Does The Breakfast Club have insights we still need? Did belonging to a club or team help many of us find friends? Is it okay that these tribes were imperfect and the same as other tribes? Memorial for a Friend Last weekend I was at a memorial for a dear friend from high school who…
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Being Pretty in Pink And How Not to Drown
Name Redacted I recently interviewed one of the most popular women we’ve written about in Fem Fridays. You first met Heather in my Madonna Piece, “When Material Girls Make a Rule.” Her essence and mentions of her were in other stories, but more popular than the Fem Fridays is Heather’s interview. In the interview Heather…
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Limited Time and the Unspoken Truths
Is Gen X running out of time? Do we need to speak the unspoken while there is still time? Yes. The Memorial Last night I participated in a memorial for the dearest of friends. Her name was Erika and I wrote about her in a poignant article in the early days of Gen X Watch.…