<![CDATA[Gawker: false nostalgia]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: false nostalgia]]> http://gawker.com/tag/false nostalgia http://gawker.com/tag/false nostalgia <![CDATA[ This Is Why We Can't Have Nostalgia ]]> fraggles.jpgWe hope you people are happy. Harvey Weinstein is going to ruin Fraggle Rock and it's all because you didn't elect Hillary Clinton. [Observer]

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Tue, 13 May 2008 18:00:47 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390170&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The Unpreserved Landmark That Cried Wolf ]]> cyclone_riders600.jpgLast year was supposed to be the final year for Coney Island's Astroland Amusement Park. So I F trained it up and went to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone, which really was quite scary due to its decrepit condition. But this weekend is the official start of Astroland's Second Annual "likely final season." Nothing says spring like false nostalgia! [amNY]

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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:50:01 EDT rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368045&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Documentary Welcomes Back The Bi 90s ]]> bimovie.jpgBi The Way, a new documentary about that beloved 90s trend of being bisexual, proves that the decade is back in a big way. And only nine years after we said goodbye to the trends of worrying about AIDS and listening to the Black Crowes before reviewing them! The movie even features 90s talking head Michael Musto. Free weeklies may be out, but the Village Voice columnist is back since his Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe spread this week. (Fortunately, filp-flops and socks were never in, so we don't need to worry about that coming back.) Nearly NSFW trailer and proof that the 00s are recycling the 90s, which is also very 90s, after the jump.

The documentary—produced by the gay ex-husband of popular 90s conservative pundit Arianna Huffington—is premiering at SXSW in Austin. The Real World: Austin might have taken place in 2005, but Austin was so 90s, as proved by the Austin-set 90s cult film Slacker.

Bisexuality was an evergreen topic for the MTV soft news documentary, Sex In The 90s. Based on the trailer (and their "100 girls making out" street promotion), this new movie's interpretation of bisexuality — that bi girls are straight girls making out with other straight girls to titillate men, and bi guys are gays who won't come out — is also very, very 90s.

The never ending primary election is asking us, as Americans, whether we want the 90s to come back. Nothing, save the resurrection of Kurt Cobain, is more 90s than Bill Clinton in the White House.

So if Hillary Clinton beats Barack Obama and wins in November, does that mean pagers will become the ultimate ironic hipster accessory? Beep me, dude! Or don't. I actually much prefer the 00s and cell phones.

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Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:59:04 EST rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=365209&view=rss&microfeed=true