pump up the minute

school inequality, pre-grunge music, school shootings, 80s sitcoms, looking at 1990 as parochial school students, and mark's first monologue

everybody knows, joey, ice-r. privileged gen-x angst, hippies turned establishment, holden caulfield, and mark's audience coming together

disneyland, baudrillard, tract homes, action figures, fake sex, fake doors, fake ministers, and expensive plates.

hippie pasts, establishment futures, nazi school logos, locker searches, commodification of black violence, and racist test scores.

lenny bruce, guidance counselors, sex education, the dare program, and compassion fatigue

preemptive ostracism, the 1776 commission, reality television, cops, pepsi, suicidal tendencies, and the male gaze

mark's gunplay, miles davis, schooley d, beastie boys, introducing gangsta rap to white people, fairness doctrine, right wing radio, joe rogan, after school specials, better off dead, leftist extremist joe biden, and the overton window

suicide, robert johnson and his 'rediscovery' by white people, cowboy junkies, above the law, rap as literature, freedom of speech, chagall guevara, and the misfits

awkward hellos, canadian bulletin boards, stan ridgway, high school suicide response, nora's investigation, i sing the body electric, captain cayatanita, and sparse classrooms #beawinner

sunglasses as disguise, nora's characterization, confusing food, parenting, mark as incel, why johnny can't read, johnny got his gun, and copycat suicides