R.I.P., ‘Blueprint’ (and ‘Sassy’, and ‘Jane’ …)

She wants what I want.

I have no idea what I’m trying to say, just that I miss loving a magazine as much as I loved the few years of Sassy I was old enough to find relevant, I wish I had saved my old 90’s Seventeen magazines for my youngest sister so she didn’t have to read the current format, which is 90% Clean and Clear ads, 10% Baby V and Zac Efron, I miss Jane and I wish Blueprint wasn’t going anywhere — it had good roots, it had a clear target audience and people willing to grow with it as long as it grew with us.

From Shake and Bake, via Not Martha.

December 20, 2007 | Filed Under check it out

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6 Responses to “R.I.P., ‘Blueprint’ (and ‘Sassy’, and ‘Jane’ …)”

Ty on December 20th, 2007 3:11 pm

Noticed your twitter comment over there about adding blogs to your newsreader…just discovered yesterday that I didn’t have mine set up with an RSS. It is now fixed if you would care to add mine!
christina on December 21st, 2007 8:07 pm

um i used to sneak all of my sister’s sassys and seventeens and sit on the toilet for like 3 hours so my mom didnt know i was reading them. then i finally was allowed to read jane.
hello insomnia on December 22nd, 2007 9:51 am

Oh Sassy, how I miss you. I thought I was so cool reading that magazine. *weeps*
Kimberly on December 25th, 2007 8:07 am

I loved Sassy. Sassy was the ultimate in cool. The Stable of writers who became more like friends-their personalities at least as important a contribution as their stories. Christina’s pop culture page, that made you so much cooler than anyone else. Jane’s letter—the original chatty letter from the editor, oft copied but never dupicated, and of course, the snark along the spine. Sassy, how I loved you.

Girls in my sphere could be divided into 2 camps—those who “got” Sassy and those who didn’t. If you bought Seventeen instead of Sassy I was suspicious of you. And if you bought YM? LAME!

sniff. I MISS Sassy.
Tina C, on January 1st, 2008 12:50 pm

umm, i take it you haven’t seen Bust magazine??? way better than sassy, though i also loved that one.
supa on January 1st, 2008 4:38 pm

I do love Bust. Or, I did. That and, crap, what was it called. “Bitch.” Intelligent and thoughtful, though these days I don’t really feel like I am the demographic for Bust, and I can’t find Bitch when I’m out and about.

Wah.