No Big Deal... I Want More

From the Trauma Spice archives

I heard early 2000s “indie sleaze” is having its turn on the ever-accelerating trend nostalgia wheel, and thought I’d get ahead of the curve with some 2010s nostalgia for you. I do hope you enjoy the dated (yet evergreen!?) references to Mad Men and Frozen.

*Originally published in the NSFW magazine Nerve, a horny internet magazine that has sadly since closed for business.

**So, yeah: NSFW.

I was at this conference in Seattle talking with a bunch of scholar-moms. All their children were obsessed with the same film. After getting an in-depth description of Frozen, which is apparently about a sister who gets married or something because she is not as mean as her blonde sister, but still wants to help her blonde sister to take off her gloves, or something, we started talking about the Little Mermaid. I was obsessed with The Little Mermaid.

“I always had such a thing for Ursula” I said, “probably some of my earliest sexual urges were Ursula-oriented.” It got quiet and they went back to talk…