May 1990 Teen Life: Pets, Fishbowls & Tortured Moms

Oct 03, 2023, 09:00 AM

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Bar! Ton! Lynch! Bar! Ton! Lynch!!!

It's time to crack open a brand-new (33-year-old) issue of Sassy! A lovely profile of Cara Dunne, a blind Harvard student, is chased by the horror show of Karen's report on volunteering at a vet's office. Kim has the brilliant brainstorm of soliciting stories of her colleagues' teen cruelty to their moms, and THEN reaching out to said moms for comment. Christina goes to Hawaii to interview some world-class surfers about the sport. And the rest of the Teen Life topics are a rich tapestry too: we do a tight ten on the bizarre photo choice for Body Talk; critique the What He Said respondents on their stories of standing up dates; sit with the deep thoughts of Stuff You Wrote; and more! Call your mom, then listen!

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง It Is May 1990

๐ŸŽง Feature: Blue Is The Color Of The Grass

๐ŸŽง Feature: What Vets Do

๐ŸŽง Feature: How To Drive Your Mother Crazy

๐ŸŽง Fiction: One To Twenty-Six

๐ŸŽง Body Talk

๐ŸŽง Help

๐ŸŽง It Happened To Me: Presumably White Girl Discovers Some People Arenโ€™t Wealthy

๐ŸŽง Stuff You Wrote

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

๐ŸŽง Feature: We Take Surfers Seriously

NOTES

โš ๏ธ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

๐Ÿ“ฐ Cara Dunne-Yates's obituary in theย Los Angeles Times

๐Ÿชฆ The Cara Dunne-Yates memorial in Snowmass Village, Colorado

๐Ÿ„โ€โ™€๏ธ Pam Burridge on the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk Of Fame

๐Ÿ‘„ Generations: A Century Of Women Speak About Their Livesย by Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich

๐Ÿ’€ Renee K. (Kotche) Bachman's obituary

๐Ÿคฉ Tara's piece onย Starstruckย at Cracked.com