Guest Post – 80s Baby

The One Lesson from The Oregon Trail We All Missed

Today’s guest author is Oliver Lyons. Please check out his other contributions in the archives. It’s 1993 and there is

I wasn’t raised with stringent gender norms. I was never limited in my activities to things that were “acceptable” for

“The girl of my dreams is a vegetable!” In 1978, a future California state senator and his friends wrote and

Welcome to Noise Machine, a segment where I, Alex Fleming, dive deep into the question, “Is the unlistenable music from

(I co-hosted a podcast called 1994 and oddly enough Tammy and the T-Rex never came up. Longtime supporter and friend

(Alex Fleming is back with a new series! Check out his previous article on Baldur’s Gate here. -Ed.) Welcome to

“You wanna know what happens to an eyeball when it gets punctured? Do you got any idea how much blood

On January 15, 1990 I turned four-and-a-half years old. That same day They Might Be Giants released their third studio

(Oliver Lyons returns to 80s Baby with an examination of Gen X hipsters, aka “Ethan Hawkes” -Ed.) As I write

“Richard, are you there? You come and face me! Richard, I am not afraid of you. You are weak, just