BEg2 reluctant to move forward / 90s nostalgia

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu May 5 05:57:52 UTC 2022


Hi,
Been stalling, not wanting to deal with chapter 30 - in 29 I was able to
focus on Horst’s musings, but ch30 has so much 9-11 material it’s not going
to be possible to focus elsewhere -

I’ve always been of the “60s nostalgia is the best nostalgia” contingent; I
suppose the decade when one enters puberty is bound to latch onto that
title. But it really was best!

However, the 90s were, I guess, my adult heyday (although, a good dog might
get 2) and deserve some love.

Back in chapter 28, at Ice’s partay:

“Blink-182,
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDEMaFMwQUpo1iQVrOCpYLAxpQ&playnext=1

 Echo and the Bunnymen,
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDEMJ2aOnFY0tjU6yw6ySA_i9Q&playnext=1

Barenaked Ladies,
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDEM8dbXagmrdPNtr0rq4Tmwfg&playnext=1

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony,
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDEM8dbXagmrdPNtr0rq4Tmwfg&playnext=1


and other sentimental oldies while vintage stock quotations from the
boom-years NASDAQ crawl along a ticker display on a frieze running the full
perimeter of the ballroom,

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC/history?period1=952214400&period2=957484800&interval=1d&filter=history&frequency=1d&includeAdjustedClose=true



beneath giant four-by-six-meter LED screens onto which bloom and fade loops
of historical highlights like Bill Clinton’s grand-jury testimony, “It
depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,”

https://youtu.be/j4XT-l-_3y0


the other Bill, Gates, getting a pie in the face in Belgium,

https://youtu.be/iK6SS8CXYZo


the announcement trailer for Halo,

https://youtu.be/_KqFJ5pPu2g


clips from the Dilbert animated TV series
https://youtu.be/nmQxzBHmWjs


and the first season of SpongeBob,
https://youtu.be/I8HpIC8P1Ac



Roman Coppola’s Boo.com commercials,
https://youtu.be/myjVcEhV-vg
https://youtu.be/b7otM-VHDGg
https://youtu.be/UZwVAHnFPL8


Monica Lewinsky hosting SNL,
https://youtu.be/jwo6NHaRGBA



Susan Lucci finally winning a Daytime Emmy for Erica Kane, with Urge
Overkill’s song of the same name deejayed in as accompaniment.”


https://youtu.be/NN2z64AoGP4 the win

https://youtu.be/Cr44MqMxE1E


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