A Sassy remembrance
November 24, 2014 9:18 AM Subscribe
Theresa DeLucci got a letter published in the only publication for girls that really attempted educational journalism—amid Twin Peaks fashion spreads and celeb interviews with grunge luminaries like Kurt Cobain and Kim Gordon.
Twin Peaks!
posted by clavdivs at 9:32 AM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by clavdivs at 9:32 AM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Twin peaks fashion: NEVER UNTIE THAT PLAID SHIRT
NEVER
posted by Ferreous at 9:36 AM on November 24, 2014 [3 favorites]
NEVER
posted by Ferreous at 9:36 AM on November 24, 2014 [3 favorites]
Because it must be linked: Sassy's Sassiest Boys (SNL sketch starring Phil Hartman)
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:40 AM on November 24, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:40 AM on November 24, 2014 [4 favorites]
Sassy was awesome and I don't think it was ever replaced by something nearly as good.
posted by Dip Flash at 9:44 AM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Dip Flash at 9:44 AM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
Hmmmm. The "only publication for girls that really attempted educational journalism?" I remember Blue Jean magazine. Doesn't that count?
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:07 AM on November 24, 2014
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:07 AM on November 24, 2014
Oh, Sassy, how I miss thee.
One issue Sassy did this pull out section stuffed with the staffers' essential music/movies/books and I would give someone else's eye teeth to lay eyes on it again. My many Googling attempts have been unfruitful. (I am, like, 90% sure it isn't the summer picks pull out.)
posted by Kitteh at 10:09 AM on November 24, 2014
One issue Sassy did this pull out section stuffed with the staffers' essential music/movies/books and I would give someone else's eye teeth to lay eyes on it again. My many Googling attempts have been unfruitful. (I am, like, 90% sure it isn't the summer picks pull out.)
posted by Kitteh at 10:09 AM on November 24, 2014
I always felt vaguely sad that Sassy was past its prime right about the time I got old enough for teen girl magz.
Also I'm watching Twin Peaks for the first time and OMG THE PLAID. I keep going into stores and staring longingly at flannel. I mean, sure, it's fall, but really, I blame Twin Peaks.
Also, pleated skirts and sweater sets have never seemed so perfect.
posted by Sara C. at 10:09 AM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Also I'm watching Twin Peaks for the first time and OMG THE PLAID. I keep going into stores and staring longingly at flannel. I mean, sure, it's fall, but really, I blame Twin Peaks.
Also, pleated skirts and sweater sets have never seemed so perfect.
posted by Sara C. at 10:09 AM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Recognizing that that sketch exists, I shall point out that Sassy actually DID have a Sassiest Boy in America, and it was Ian Svenonius.
I heard his name mentioned sometime last year or something and wondered where I had heard it before. "Oh, he was in Nation of Ulysses," said my husband. "No, it's something else..." and I pulled this out of the primordial slop in my head as my husband watched the process with undisguised horrified fascination. I imagine it was like watching the birth of a cow on Dirty Jobs.
Also, once they highlighted the fact that Evan Dando went to prom with a girl in Georgia. I remember her name and the town, but I won't mention them because then it would REALLY look like I have a sickness and I kind of do
posted by Madamina at 10:30 AM on November 24, 2014 [9 favorites]
I heard his name mentioned sometime last year or something and wondered where I had heard it before. "Oh, he was in Nation of Ulysses," said my husband. "No, it's something else..." and I pulled this out of the primordial slop in my head as my husband watched the process with undisguised horrified fascination. I imagine it was like watching the birth of a cow on Dirty Jobs.
Also, once they highlighted the fact that Evan Dando went to prom with a girl in Georgia. I remember her name and the town, but I won't mention them because then it would REALLY look like I have a sickness and I kind of do
posted by Madamina at 10:30 AM on November 24, 2014 [9 favorites]
One issue Sassy did this pull out section stuffed with the staffers' essential music/movies/books and I would give someone else's eye teeth to lay eyes on it again.
Previously.
posted by Juliet Banana at 10:43 AM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
Previously.
posted by Juliet Banana at 10:43 AM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
Oh, Kitteh, I'm sorry, I missed the part where you said it wasn't the summer picks pull out!!!
posted by Juliet Banana at 10:44 AM on November 24, 2014
posted by Juliet Banana at 10:44 AM on November 24, 2014
Juliet Banana, it could just be that I am remembering things wrong. I swear like there was a Morrissey album included (how's that for vague??).
posted by Kitteh at 10:52 AM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Kitteh at 10:52 AM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Sassy was awesome and I don't think it was ever replaced by something nearly as good.
I mean, the internet, but I've heard that's kind of a mixed bag.
posted by Navelgazer at 11:05 AM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
I mean, the internet, but I've heard that's kind of a mixed bag.
posted by Navelgazer at 11:05 AM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
> Sassy was awesome and I don't think it was ever replaced by something nearly as good
I've seen only one issue so far, but Kiki Magazine looks pretty groovy and I'll be giving my daughter a subscription for Christmas. I like that it's a magazine for girls that isn't about boys -- and Sassy (I say this as a former subscriber) sure had a lot about boys.
posted by The corpse in the library at 11:47 AM on November 24, 2014
I've seen only one issue so far, but Kiki Magazine looks pretty groovy and I'll be giving my daughter a subscription for Christmas. I like that it's a magazine for girls that isn't about boys -- and Sassy (I say this as a former subscriber) sure had a lot about boys.
posted by The corpse in the library at 11:47 AM on November 24, 2014
Juliet Banana, it could just be that I am remembering things wrong. I swear like there was a Morrissey album included (how's that for vague??).
I'm sure we can find the Sassy with a Morissey album referencced. It's probably that one with the thin boys with the floppy hair and the girls wearing something you're not sure if it's flannel plaid or gingham but it's cute as fuck. You know, that one.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:36 PM on November 24, 2014 [7 favorites]
I'm sure we can find the Sassy with a Morissey album referencced. It's probably that one with the thin boys with the floppy hair and the girls wearing something you're not sure if it's flannel plaid or gingham but it's cute as fuck. You know, that one.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:36 PM on November 24, 2014 [7 favorites]
(In hindsight, I would hope that anyone reading that previous comment meant that joke came from a place of deep and abiding love for Sassy magazine.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:07 PM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:07 PM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
I still have my Sassys. I'm not sure what box they ended up in when we moved, or I would look for you, Kitteh!
It's weird looking at them now and realizing how much of what feels like my essential me-ness was completely influenced by Sassy. Who knows what I would be like without it?
posted by apricot at 5:19 PM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
It's weird looking at them now and realizing how much of what feels like my essential me-ness was completely influenced by Sassy. Who knows what I would be like without it?
posted by apricot at 5:19 PM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]
around 1990, my college dorm-mate and i (both intellectual, disaffected geekboys who liked acid and situationist happenings) papered our dorm room walls with posters from Reverend Robert Tilton and covers of Sassy magazine. i suppose there was an irony or subversion in our affection for Sassy, but we would never own up to it -- our love for Sassy was real and true and you'd never hear us say otherwise. i specifically remember being deeply in love with the Sassiest Girl in America 1990, even though she was a little too young and much much too sassy for me.
posted by slappy_pinchbottom at 6:36 PM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by slappy_pinchbottom at 6:36 PM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
WAIT. That girl is from less than half an hour away from me. How did I not know that?
posted by Madamina at 7:08 PM on November 24, 2014
posted by Madamina at 7:08 PM on November 24, 2014
Oh Sassy, how I miss you. I subscribed from issue 2 onward. (Bought issue 1 on the newsstand.) When I went to college, the subscription switched into my sister's name, but I made her save them for me to read when I came home. Sadly, I think they were tossed once my sister went to college. : (
In 1994, I was a participant in the ASME Magazine Internship Program. (Interns were all placed at different magazines but everyone came together for group sessions once a week) One of the events was an Intern/Alumni Reunion, where we mingled with former participants who had gone on to work in journalism. Diane Paylor (one of the Sassy staff writers at the time) was one of the alumni who showed up. Needless to say, I was thrilled to meet her - and I tried not to gush and fangirl too much. : )
posted by SisterHavana at 2:20 AM on November 25, 2014
In 1994, I was a participant in the ASME Magazine Internship Program. (Interns were all placed at different magazines but everyone came together for group sessions once a week) One of the events was an Intern/Alumni Reunion, where we mingled with former participants who had gone on to work in journalism. Diane Paylor (one of the Sassy staff writers at the time) was one of the alumni who showed up. Needless to say, I was thrilled to meet her - and I tried not to gush and fangirl too much. : )
posted by SisterHavana at 2:20 AM on November 25, 2014
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