July 1991 Pop Culture: Chapterhouse, Jamie Walters & Summer Recommendations

Dec 23, 2025, 06:15 AM

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When Sassy hits, it hits. When it misses, it name-checks...Ayn Rand?!

It's summer, and everyone at Sassy is already too hot to work. Christina admits that What Now is kind of a flop -- she's even a month late mentioning Ian Svenonius's birthday! (It's June 1, in case you also want to mark your calendar for the most important event of the year.) One To Watch Jamie Walters, we can now agree, burned bright in his moment, but that his moment did not last long. And then the staff just foregoes Watch It, Listen Up, AND an entertainment feature, instead assembling an insert full of recommendations for what they're all going to be watching, reading, and doing in the summer of 1991. Which of them do we think you should listen to? Listen to US to find out.

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is July 1991
🎧 Feature: Her Sister Amy
🎧 Feature: Dump That Dude
🎧 Feature: Would You Like Some Fries With That Diploma?
🎧 Feature: Why You Liked Yourself Better When You Were 11
🎧 Fiction: Serenade
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 Help
🎧 Help For Him
🎧 What He Said: What’s The Most Horrid Thing You Ever Did To Your Sister?
🎧 On The Road: Cleveland, Ohio
🎧 It Happened To Me: Teen Mother
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
🏑 Chapterhouse on Wikipedia
🌎 "The Overpopulation Myth And Its Dangerous Connotations" at The Sierra Club Washington State
🌍 "Beyond 8 Billion" at The Population Institute
βš™οΈ Simple Machines
πŸ‘– Jamie Walters's Levi's TV commercial
πŸ§‘β€πŸš’ "Over The Hills: I Was A Beverly Hills, 90210 Heartthrob And Engaged To An A-List Actress -- But I Gave Up Fame To Become A Firefighter" at The U.S. Sun
βš“οΈ Odyssey on YouTube
🐀 Adam Hann-Byrd's website
πŸš‡ The International Pop Underground Convention on Wikipedia
πŸŽ‚ "IPUC At 30!" at Chick Factor
😢 "Words In Your Face" on YouTube
πŸ“° "Words In Your Face" review at the New York Times
πŸ’… Cover Girl NailSlicks in Tawny Peach at Amazon
🎞️ "I Watch Slacker To Read Austin In The Original" at Places Journal
😝 Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha Ha at Woolly Mammoth
🀑 "It's 1:30 AM, And A Clown Wants To Fix You" at the New York Times