Despite her bizarre choices of writers to fill in for her during a break (this will become apparent tomorrow), I am loving CityMama's mad tribute to All Things '80s, which kicks off today with a hilarious and insightful essay on going from Club Kid to Club Parent from Jessica Ashley of Sassafrass:
"Maybe I cling to that part of me because sometimes I still rely on certain shoes or skinny pants to get me in the mood for whatever doors I will be walking through that day. It's just that, on the other side of these doors, I'm much more likely to find tricycles and aisles of organic soy butter than young boys in Z Cavs and the uh-uh-uhhhh of Frankie Goes to Hollywood sampled into New Order. The attitude's the same, though, and occasionally even the red lipstick."
And oh there's more ... so, so much more. From Girbaud to Guess to Robert Palmer, Ashley manages to perfectly mine a decade of what it's like to be the first generation growing up under the MTV culture and ask what that makes of us now, as parents. Plus it's just killer to remember the hella rad '80s, so tune in over the next two week and maybe, if you're lucky, someone will break out Max Headroom.
