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We’ve known for a while that the Internet is good for at least a dozen different things, including watching cat gifs, watching pornography, and buying vintage country-music concert tees (which, considering the vicissitudes of a freelancer’s income and the fact that I just moved to the sixth most expensive city in the world, maybe I shouldn’t be buying, even if they were a remarkably good deal as far as vintage concert T-shirts go). To this short but growing list we can add “being constantly reminded how old the pop-culture ephemera from your youth is, and therefore how old you are getting.” But I do highly recommend this Spin piece on the 20th anniversary of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s immortal “Smells Like Nirvana,” even if it makes you feel less than youthful.
