The Nineties
by Chuck Klosterman · first published 2022
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A description and analysis of some of the more acknowledged events that happened in America between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers.
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…the integrity of the artist. But then an interesting thing began happening in the late 90’s and early 00’s. The idea of selling out lost its negative connotation. Chuck Klosterman's recent book "The Nineties" talks about this a lot! And honestly it's spot on. I had forgotten about this, and not realized how much it disappeared as a cultural concept. https://www.amazon.com/Nineties-Book-Chuck-Klosterman/dp/073...…
on “Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)” ↗> If you missed them, you had to wait a year. This is literally the intro section to Chuck Klosterman's Nineties - about the number of people who watched Seinfeld and those that missed it, just missed it. > There's a quality bestowed through scarcity. There's a depth to scarcity, but your kids are going to watch…
on “An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model” ↗According to Chuck Klosterman in his book on 'The Nineties' more people watched an average episode of Seinfeld than watch the finale of Game of Thrones or The Sopranos. About the only thing that remains for mass audiences is sport. Even there on demand replays…
on “Where did the long tail go?” ↗