POGS
Pogs was a version of milk caps that was really popular when I was in elementary school in the early '90s. So popular that kids were banned from bringing them to school by the time I was in fourth grade because it was seen to distract kids from learning. Here's how you played: Each player had his or her own collection of decorative, collectable milk caps called pogs and one or more slammers.
1) The players each would contribute an equal number of pogs to build a stack with the pieces face-down, which would be used during the game.
2) The players would take turns throwing their slammer down onto the top of the stack, causing it to spring up and the pogs to scatter. Each player would then keep any pogs that land face-up after they have thrown.
3) After each throw, the pogs which have landed face-down would then then re-stacked for another round.
4) When no pogs remained in the stack, the player with the most pogs was the winner.
It was the coolest casual $#@! since marbles!
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HEAVENS TO BETSY
My favorite riot grrrl band! And also my favorite band of all time. Riot grrrl was a feminist (typically also anarchist) underground punk scene whose heyday was the early 1990s. Technically the genre still exists (you may have heard of the Russian group $#@! Riot in the news, for example), but it's not truly the same these days and it's also not nearly as significant a social element. It's the kind of stuff that detractors often claim is "just noise". It's not noise, it's passion! To me, being authentic matters more than having a trained voice or being professionally trained at an instrument or being politically safe. I find the shrill screams and off-pitchness of Heavens to Betsy endearing in its humanity. I think their songs are beautiful. Here are some of my favorite songs of their's:
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