tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post2586064487275066173..comments2024-02-29T23:31:03.341-05:00Comments on Out Of Left Field: The kids today, they're like those hip musicians with their complicated shoessagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08757652892056684490noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-3318256779264376442008-09-10T21:05:00.000-04:002008-09-10T21:05:00.000-04:00My first thought after reading that post was: Is i...My first thought after reading that post was: Is it coming to Syracuse? (Second thought: Hey, maybe the athletic director here has been trying to get fired, a la Costanza, and that's why he hired Greg Robinson.)<BR/><BR/>I teach a class, in a communications school, with 75 students, mostly freshmen. And they don't really respond to Simpsons references either. Maybe it's just me they aren't responding to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-14674842566571837292008-09-10T17:10:00.000-04:002008-09-10T17:10:00.000-04:00"Brilliant" in this case is any pop art that drive..."Brilliant" in this case is any pop art that drives a wedge through the ranks of armchair critics.<BR/><BR/>By that token, that episode was brilliant. Many slavering <I>Simpsons</I> fans hated that it was non-canon and played hell (Marge and Homer were shown living together without children in the early 1990s, by which point the show had begun).<BR/><BR/>That episode did capture that brief epoch that began around mid-1991 (the year I entered high school) and petered out in 1994, the year of <I>Forrest Gump</I>, Kurt Cobain offing himself and <I>Collective Soul's Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid</I> going double-platinum.<BR/><BR/>Getting back to that episode, it captured that 1991-94 period about as well as anything since Chuck Klosterman's essay "Sulking With Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth." <BR/><BR/>All together now: "Winona Ryder is Luke Skywalker, only with a better haircut and a killer rack."sagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757652892056684490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-16113870692320629822008-09-10T16:21:00.000-04:002008-09-10T16:21:00.000-04:00Sadgasm was brilliant. "Margarine" got me listenin...Sadgasm was brilliant. "Margarine" got me listening to Bush again...Andrew Bucholtzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156615450275929751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-19391708566866542902008-09-10T16:16:00.000-04:002008-09-10T16:16:00.000-04:00I want my Commodore 64 back.I want my Commodore 64 back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-11309448044477811672008-09-10T15:15:00.000-04:002008-09-10T15:15:00.000-04:00Was it just me or was the '90s send-up the Simpson...Was it just me or was the '90s send-up the Simpsons did this past season the best episode produced since, well, the '90s? <BR/><BR/>Sadgasm!Duane Rollinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512076277116230020noreply@blogger.com