Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last week, it found its in. Last week, Anna and I joined another generation. And this week, FM brings our foray unto you, oh gentle reader, in a scrutiny concerning the kids at Cambridge Rindge and Latin---which, for those who don't know, is the high school right around the corner from Harvard Yard...
...chilled in the Pit. I tramped through the Yard with people not wearing cargo pants, button-downs or DHA sweats. I passed people I knew who didn't even register my presence, what with the posse of homies I was traveling with. A boy named Crazylikes wanted to know if I was a cop; a guy at the pizza place wanted my phone number. All my new friends want a copy of this magazine...
...sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know how all the black boxes in your world operate...
...picketed for hot breakfasts in the '70s, that a Funk Concert Happening did it in your earhole in Dunster a decade ago, or that Terrence Malick '66 was busy with his Husserl and Heidegger thesis before Badlands. When was the Red Line extended to Harvard Square? And do you know your American history? That is, ad campaigns from...
...postmodern joys of the Information Age are that we finally know everything about what's happened, and we can choose from vast databases and with great ease. For the answers, we have the scientific straight and narrow if we wish, or we can page through literary traditions, or social practice, or minutiae. Our critics can tend to be our history-keepers if we're not careful, simply because they bother to remember what happened more than five years...