On Your Mark…

Episode One

March 1988

The premiere episode of The Sassy Podcast takes on the premiere issue of Sassy Magazine:

• Possibly-faked reader mail

• The beginning of Sassy’s long-running romance with R.E.M.

• Bucket hats

• The tale of how Sassy lost all their advertisers due to a boycott

• Making Robert Downey, Jr. mad at us

• And, of course… Keith Coogan

• Music by: Velocity Girl, Juliana Hatfield, INXS

Resources:

• Up Close with Mackenzie Astin

• Linda Pena, a sales clerk at Montgomery Ward in Canoga Park, likes disposable mascara

• “Gonococcal” is hard to pronounce

• Cindy Lee Berryhill’s 1987 Rhino Records promo video

• One to Watch: Charlie Schlatter’s latest project

• “Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette in Teenage Magazines”