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In Their Voices

December 11, 2024

Certain words will always be in certain actors' voices. It's one of the quirks of human memory.

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Butterfly McQueen and Cynthia Nixon

December 4, 2024

The absolutely wild world of the after school programming beloved by Generation X.

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Great Man Theory and the Movies

November 20, 2024

The movies, especially Westerns, are the way the are due to the efforts of a single man who worked in Tombstone, Dodge City, and Hollywood.

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And She Doesn’t Even Usually Fight Smugglers: Nancy Drew

March 20, 2024

Nancy Drew, the greatest of the twentieth century Girl Detectives, has a long and complicated legacy.

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Double the Fun: Sweet Valley

March 13, 2024

The long, complicated, and repetitive world of Sweet Valley, from elementary school to Confidential.

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Working Girls: The Baby-Sitters Club

March 6, 2024

The President's baby never goes missing, but a lot else happens in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, involving babysitting.

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Horse Girl Mystery: Trixie Belden

March 4, 2024

Trixie Belden, another of the ghost-written books for girls. This time with a lot of detail about horses.

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Music and My Freshman Year

August 2, 2023

1991 was a powerful year for me and for music, and they coincided strongly.

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Grimy ’70s Vision

March 30, 2022

There's just something gritty and beige about '70s movies.

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Especially For Girls! But Also Universal!

March 23, 2022

The Especially For Girls line was useful but also a demonstration of a real problem in media.