start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

We are currently experiencing a delicious sandwich

i’m getting more & more irrationally angry at 30-something podcasters who seem to have an entire ouevre of talking about things I love but were too young to experience & so they’re going to tell it all back to me like a game of telephone

this is my own fault for listening too far too many podcasts than is healthy

but omg

an episode about Kathleen Hannah’s memoir that starts with “we were too young for Riot Grrl! our girl power was Britney & Spice Girls…”

THE WAY I SMASHED THAT DELETE BUTTON OMG

Akin to Gen X talking about Led Zep of the Dead?

it’s really just the open flouting of youth that upsets me currently tbh

Wait wasnt the Spice Girls earlier than Riot Grrl? Or am I so old I have my timelines all confused lol.

yes! i just worded it badly dont rib it in lol

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Riot Grrl was several years earlier than the Spice Girls

Bikini Kill’s first record was 1990 (checked), Bratmobile had recordings out in 1991, Huggy Bear’s first was 1992 (clearly burnt into brain)

Riot Grrrl (three Rs, take note) UK was over by the time Elastica started getting hyped - I remember a Bratmobile show in London where Frischmann and her friends (various Blur girlfriends before Jo from Huggy Bear started an LTR with Graham Coxon) turned up with crossed-arms body language and new haircuts.

A lot of fanzine kids (my peers, although I never did my own zine because I was employed as a music writer within a year of leaving uni) started Riot Grrrl in the US; the dedicated zines and Bikini Kill’s first recordings came out in 1991 - the Revolution Girl Style Now cassette. The first group not of the scene to co-opt RG was probably Shampoo, who ran a Manics fanzine (so not too far off, really). They had a Girl Power single before the future Spice Girls answered the help aanted ads in The Stage.

Girl Power is sitting round the house, acting like a slob!! <3

people who reschedule meetings to earlier in the day.

NO! you can't cut my preparation time!

otm kill them with fire

if someone moves a meeting from 10:30am to 10am that literally costs me £10-£15

Lady whose credit card was declined at the cash register, with a long line of shoppers behind her, decides to 'call the bank and clear this up' as the cashier just placidly looks at her fingernails

wait that's not irrational anger at all

I used some “hand sanitizer” at the church and it was the same scent as my old speed stick deodorant

At least it didn't smell like Drakkar Noir which is Satan's piss IIRC.

“Scandinavian leather”