Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, the 1988 film directed by Todd Haynes,
was prohibited from future exhibition in 1990, but bootleg copies continue
to proliferate online.
Category Archives: History
I’m Running (outgoing 19)
Rolling Stones fans are legendary: some dedicate their lives to transcribing guitar solos from fifty year old live concerts, others to chasing down grandfatherly idols for an autograph.
I wish you the best of luck (Andy 2)
When Thomas Frank moved from the University of Virginia to the University of Chicago
to begin graduate school, The Baffler, which self identified as The Journal that Blunts the Cutting Edge, moved there as well.
Aunt Leora (Grandma 4)
In 1973, Robin Morgan addressed The American Home Economics Association as “the enemy.” The organization changed its name to the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences in 1994.
Noisy Toys (Chris 18)
Toys made of plastic were rare before World War II. Their late twentieth century ubiquity came to symbolize the excess of consumer society.
Paul Mason Fotsch 