I am An Old and was a teenager in the 80s and I regret absolutely none of my sublime musical choices. I’m still proud of the fact that I was the first person in my school to get into The Smiths, thanks to KROQ. And although most of my musical tastes were pretty eclectic, again thanks to KROQ, I did and still do crave…

I was that weird girl in school who was obnoxiously obsessed with a bunch of bands most people had never heard of and not in any kind of way that made me a cool girl. But it worked out pretty well for me. My husband and I hated each other at first and then bonded over our CD collections. 13 years later we still spend…

OMG does anyone else remember KITTIE though

I tried to woo a girl with Silverchair patch on her bookbag by showing off my knowledge of  The Silver Chair, fourth book of the Chronicles of Narnia. I didn’t know Silverchair was a band.

Tangential, but I just heard someone on the radio say that bleached tips are coming back into style. I’m currently somewhere between the denial and anger stages of grief.

I never pretended to like bands to impress any guys but I definitely THOUGHT I liked some bands that in retrospect I think suck, largely because guys I dated were into them. And I definitely pretended to like some local bands that guys I thought were hot were in.

How does one not like Garbage???

I met him once in NYC, he was super nice, but also spacey in that Dave Matthews sort of way. Exactly what you would expect him to be like.

home ec!! does home ec even exist in public schools any more? I’m in my 30s and fondly remember making pajama pants and funnel cakes in 7th grade home ec

I fucking LIVED for these. When I was in middle school my greatest joy was reading this column, and I still remember finding a stack of old Seventeens in my aunt’s house from the last decade and flipping back to read this column. Fuck, these illustrations are provoking a visceral reaction, I feel like I’m 12 again.

OMG teen/high school romances.

I wonder if “Peter” reads Jezebel and is all “oh Kelly is pretty smart and awesome!”

‘Violent, transnational gangs like MS-13 take advantage of cities and states that shelter them in order to smuggle in drugs, recruit school children to join, and pillage and plunder our communities.’

Bad hair is a family tradition?