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The life and times of a pop culture addict.

The life and times of a pop culture addict. by Amber Strother. Part 1: The early years .

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The life and times of a pop culture addict.

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  1. The life and times of a pop culture addict. by Amber Strother

  2. Part 1: The early years

  3. My sisters and I had a giant stash of Barbies and Barbie accessories. We would destroy our bedroom to create a Barbie town complete with our own “apartments,” a school (I always insisted on being the teacher), and a drive-in movie theater (a space in front of the television). Barbie and the Rockers were my favorites.

  4. She-Ra A cartoon about He-Man’s lesser-known secret twin sister, She-Ra was one of my favorites. My personal favorite character was Frostawho is the queen of Castle Chill and can shoot freaking beams of ice from her hands.

  5. Part 2: The teenage years

  6. I wanna know what angst is Even before the teenage blues, I was obsessed with them. The first CD I bought was Alanis Morrissette’sJagged Little Pill. At fourteen I had no idea what half of what she was saying meant, but I wanted to feel her angsty pain.

  7. Dance Only slightly less embarrassing than being a cheerleader (sorry cheerleaders), I was on the dance team at my high school. I was obsessed with becoming a Rockette one day.

  8. Part 3: The Undergraduate

  9. As an undergraduate, I left my bad taste in music (sorry Dave Matthews) and my dancing shoes behind. I finally started to discover music and fiction genres that I still love today.

  10. The dark, dark future My obsession with dystopian fiction began with Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and George Orwell’s 1984.

  11. Finally! Music I don’t have to categorize as “guilty pleasures.” I discovered the weird world of The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs I fell in love with Ryan Adams’ heartbreaker.

  12. Part 4: Graduate School

  13. Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs – Oh my! My first graduate class was “American Apocalypse” and so began my love of science fiction. BattlestarGalactica took over my life as I marathoned through the entire series one summer.

  14. My descent into old age… I became obsessed with crochet and knitting. As more and more people in their 20s began to rediscover the craft that we had watched our grandmothers master, I joined in. I made scarves, cupcakes, sushi, and Cthulu dolls out of yarn.

  15. Part 5: The Doctoral Program This is me faking my best horror movie scream at the EMP museum in Seattle.

  16. If grad school doesn’t work out, there’s always money in the cupcake stand… I became obsessed with baking everything from scratch. Cupcakes, pies, cakes, desserts. Martha Stewart became my hero. Perfecting pie crust, bread dough, and icing became my culinary goal.

  17. Steampunk Adventures! My newest pop culture obsession is steampunk. The clothes, the jewelry, the subculture, the literature – I love it all. It’s vintage chic meets futuristic robots. What more could I want?

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