I have recently helped a number of people set their Facebook accounts up so that they accept friend requests from people they may not know very well (or coworkers who they prefer to not divulge all their personal secrets to). Facebook doesn’t make it very easy, but once you know how to do this, you [...]

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To get you warmed up for months of staying home with piles of recession movies, listen to resident 801a hero Andy Rooney’s take on watching movies at home versus at the theater. Netflix! Preposterous! Can’t rent the popcorn…

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How many recessions have you lived through? You’ll live through this one too! The recession of the 2001-2002-2003 era sucked, but not as bad as the recession in 1992. I don’t remember the recession of the late eighties and wasn’t even in utero during seventies-era hyperinflation, but I know my parents weren’t fond of those [...]

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Each week, we ask our circa 1993 teen development program / binder how to solve our very adult problems.

What Type are you?
“Boys often classify and describe girls according to the way the girls act around them: Shy, A Flirt, A Pal, Natural.”Here is a breakdown of the four types of girls:
• a SHY girl “may [...]

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Very Less Than Zero.

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Each week, we ask our circa 1993 teen development program / binder how to solve our very adult problems.

Teen Works: an exciting program that answers questions on fashion, beauty, dating, friendship and lots more…Virtually no information exists on the internet about Teen Works, but it played a seminal role in this young woman’s pre-teen [...]

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Last week, the REAL Holly’s Corner Blog got spicy with my favorite topic: boys.

Holly S.’s post-feminist musings veer dangerously towards iVillage territory in “For the Guys”, her analysis of how happy relationships result from each partner meeting universal needs. Holly S., via Dr. Laura, identifies the essential ingredients to a successful relationship with her usual [...]

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Internet celebrity Andrew Sloat brought this flyer back from the AIGA conference on Tuesday.

He gave us a fine recap of a talk by the phenomenal Canadian typographer Marian Bantjes. Bantjes started out her talk by expressing astonishment to be there, and credited it to the fact that four years ago, she quit doing everything she [...]

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