Good points. I mentioned around here that I really liked Idoru from 1996, by William Gibson, who coined "cyberspace". I loved the descriptions of portable computers being anything- bags of jelly, or made of wood and seashells. It was so descriptive and imaginative- except Gibson didn't imagine a thing like WiFi. …

I accept your alibi for why so many of your friends end up badly injured. I.. no , I totally believe you.

I'm so sick of every malevolent bag of fucking slime mentioned in this article. All of them can rot in hell, the sooner the better.

You must have been a very wee lad. Oasis enjoyed two hit singles in the US, because they were quite good and worthy songs. In the UK they were invested with the responsibility of portraying and embodying a whole huge angry white punk fuck spit fuck you mate antisocial unemployable nasty drunk sexist promiscuous…

So, Sinead O'Connor is apparently having another mental breakdown, in a shabby motel in "the arse-end of New Jersey" as she puts it. She made a video for her Facebook page, she seems in a dire depressive state. thanking her psychiatrist but lashing out at her family, "the people who were supposed to love me" was…

So true. I completely believe the story Blockbusters nationwide had a problem with VHS copies of Basic Instinct, because people kept rewinding and replaying the moment where Sharon Stone flashes her puss. I can easily , easily see that this is true. Saying VHS tapes were indestructible is really laughable.

The Onion story about the Queen taking her right to deflower Kate Middleton on her wedding night is still funny. Could only find the video version:

Ha! I feel like I overstated my case a bit too far then. First, my full encouragement to you on your first novel- I mean this sincerely, go for it, and just from reading your comments I suspect it will likely be good. Go for it! And of course there needs to depictions of our devices and online reality that we…

It's woefully out of date because he hasn't changed or updated it since 1997. On purpose, it literally looks the exact same as it did in 1997.

No idea! They're definitely profitable, and one way they could become even more profitable is if they wrapped Lauer and all their morning newsreaders and dipsomaniacs in chains and tossed them overboard from the Intrepid in a televised spectacle. Start over with some hungry young interns whose English is coming along…

First, I am abashed to retract- apparently Ray of Light came out in early 1998. Argh! But though it wasn't a huge hit, it sold millions in its first year, the videos were all over MTV, the songs were on the radio and at the gay clubs I was going to, it won a slew of Grammys, she was on the cover of every magazine…

Wow. When Stan the man was in charge and when I was a kid, Fantastic Four was the crown jewel, the title was royalty and treated reverently in their promotions. Even when titles like Spider-Man far outsold FF, and they never broke through to mass popularity like Spidey, the FF were respected by Marvel as the thing…

It is John Giorno. Who i only really know of from Sleep. Which I know from stills I saw in Warhol books I read as a teen. Didn't cross my mind thathe was actually briefly involved sexually with Andy. But yeah- for a homely guy, Warhol had a talent for attracting the attractive to him, going back to the 50s. Not…

Thanks for your entertaining anecdote. I liked it because it reminded me of my first thought when I saw this Newswire, that seemingly everyone involved with the VU, alive or dead, became a cranky and aggrieved asshole if they were ever asked the slightest question about the VU, no matter how respectful and admiring…

"Tits and TEETH, tits and TEETH, darling!" - Extras

Congrats on being young-ish, all sorts of babies are coming up behind you to steal your smug spot. Was 1997 the year they stopped teaching kids that capital letters exist and should be used appropriately?

It is an amazing relic of what websites looked like in 1997.

9/11/2001 was when the 90s died. The 90s had a long run. They really started in late 1987. Music changed, fashion changed. Not necessarily in the US. But yeah, the period we call the 90s started early and ended a bit late.

Holy shit, I cannot recall how much time was spent when VHS tapes got tangled in the machine, having to extract that mess, scissor the busted parts and stitch it together with Scotch tape. "DVDs are far more fragile than their practically indestructible predecessors."

OK Computer definitely deserves a mention. And talking about 1997, Madonna's Ray of Light was a pop sensation that year, her "mature" album with moody sophisticated lyrics and beats, the videos on MTV when we didn't have Youtube, great reviews and a lot of Grammys, remixes of the songs very popular in gay clubs..…