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Daria Morgendorffer’s buddy Jodie grows up, thanks to the Black-ish star
It has been quite the week for 90s nostalgia. An acoustic guitar belonging to Kurt Cobain, used for Nirvana’s eerily ceremonial MTV Unplugged show just five months before he died, sold for an astonishing $6m, becoming the most expensive guitar ever bought at auction. Its price tag certainly befits a band whose most famous T-shirt witheringly referred to them as “corporate rock whores”.
In other 90s news, Daria, the greatest cartoon series of my youth, is being brought back at last. For those unfamiliar with Daria Morgendorffer, the animated series, which ran from 1997 to 2002, centred on a misanthropic teenage girl who had a withering line on everything and everyone. There was a lot of withering in the 90s. You could say it reached, er, withering heights. Daria is so fondly remembered that there have been a few years of speculation as to what a potential revival might look like and now we know. Continue reading...
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