When I was in 6th grade, we had cable for a few months (a rare treat), and Clarissa Explains It All was the sole reason I defaced my room and started wearing funky earrings every day. This was my introduction to suburban punk rock - which may be watered down but what sheltered girls so so need. So much cooler this Hannah Montana I keep hearing about nowadays, but I may be biased. This post officially makes me feel 87 years old.
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I'll throw my hat into the ring of becoming slightly disenfranchised from the CEIA (Clarissa Explains It All) nexus. Being neither a suburbanite or a girl however, i feel like i might have been turned inside out somehow because of it, i/e. now a complacent urban dweller.
ReplyDeletebut you might know this to be untrue, and why>>>? Do you remember the episode where she pretended to be someone's cousin and went to the furthest extremes in goth-punk fashion but added a New Jersey accent? Or better yet, how about after the CEIA era in a made for tv movie where she plays a parent killing sex addict?
Which leads me to this:
Have you ever noticed how the "WORD VERIFICATION' box (when posting comments such as this) strikes a similar resemblance to the term "WORLD GENTRIFICATION" ?
Back to CEIA, do you think in all her exploratory nature, that Clarissa, found herself post-high school at some liberal arts college in the North East, then onto Brooklyn ? Part of the first few waves of white plight into the city's then decayed and cheap housing market?
I know for a fact Clarissa Darling lives in South Williamsburg next to a Brooklyn Industries near the JMZ
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