THE MISSION OF A FEW FORMER GEEKS, REBELS, BASKETCASES & PRINCESSES

You (and we) were born in the 70s.  You love the song "Don't You Forget About Me."  You once lusted after Ricky Schroeder, or Molly Ringwald, or Judd Nelson. You are totally beholden to the internet and your iPod but you remember a time when neither of these things existed and a couple of geeks could dream of scanning a few photos into a "computah" and "actually making a girl."

While this may begin as a post mortem about a great icon and writer of 80s cinema, this is meant as a magazine for people who are new to feeling old. Basically, this is geared to Gen Xers who suddenly realize that electronica isn't new anymore; Starship Troopers and Before Sunrise were both made over a decade ago; and the man who created the movies that defined our childhood and early adolescence has gone to an early grave, and taken all hopes of a Big Chill-like Breakfast Club sequel along with him.

We're not here to mourn -- not entirely.  But we are here out of some sense that this man helped shape our sense of humor, and taught us what it meant to be a teenager, and indirectly, an adult.

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FOUNDING EDITOR: Jay C. Barmann

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