Kim Deal is the coolest.

The mustache is an obvious focal point. But also, those bangs!

The number in the bottom right corner, for those of you who are wondering, refers to the issue in which the ad would've expired. In this case, September 11, 1996. [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

Anyone else love Ronnie?

Distaste for dance clubs [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]

The story of Oney Judge, Martha Washington's slave who ran away to freedom

Someone stole the bird's nest out of the cemetery. [The National Police Gazette, June 12, 1847] This could be a prompt for the next Knives Out, @rianjohnson.bsky.social

Not enough onomatopoeia in personal ads, if you ask me [The Advocate, Dec 27, 1978]

What did Kathie Lee Gifford ever do to this guy? [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

Are you the piece she's missing? [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]

The VHSDates videos are so not real but still so good

How did Steve meet people? In the personals, of course

I like big buts [The Advocate, Apr 29, 1986]

Yabba dabba do! youtube.com/shorts/9Pbru...

Ernest Hemingway had a six-toed cat, you know [The California Aggie, Jan 9, 1970]

I feel this. [The California Aggie, May 21, 1986]

Arms or legs — your call [The Advocate, May 9, 1989]

He's here. He's queer. [New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996]

With the passage of time, I see these ads, um, differently. www.youtube.com/shorts/veRJ2...

East Coast savvy and West Coast looks [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996]

Don't wait! [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]

Honest, moral, non-religious. [New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996]

Bluesky is great — the best! — but you can follow me on other platforms too.

His editing career didn't go far, apparently

Did this woman ever find her swishy straight man? [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996 & Oct 3, 1996]

Insert some kind of quip about Ryan Lizza, Olivia Nuzzi and Keith Olbermann here [Pittsburgh City Paper, June 17, 2009]

Ginger Baker was the drummer of Cream. He was known for long, meandering solos. Bruce Springsteen didn't want that. He wanted an accompanist, and he found Max Weinberg. [The Village Voice, Aug 8, 1974]

No drugs. No games. [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]

Vampires!

They used to just print magazines like this. Every week.

I too am turned on by ads [Swingers World Magazine ,1973]

Davy Jones was the first musician picked for the Monkees. He was super cute, so that was an easy decision. To help find the other members, the producers placed ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter in September 1965.

Diane Keaton was a great actress. Perhaps this wasn’t her most famous scene, but it was a defining role, and it included a reference to the Personals column on the New York Review of Books.

Did Monkey ever find a rich old lady? [The San Francisco Oracle, 1968]

These commercials were all over TV in the 1980s. [The Advocate, May 9, 1989]

"Personals" was a 1972 film featuring interviews with people who placed ads in adult publications. The film also included reenactments of what happened after the interviewees met up with strangers from those ads.

“Callipygian” is New York Review of Books for “great ass” [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]

Long lasting relationship [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]

Sancho paid the bills

One of the bummers of losing real deal newspapers is that you'll be reading an article about territorial disputes and just below that you'll find a classified in search of a lost cat named Sancho.

Bro is a rose is a rose is a rose [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]

Media-opoly

Really hard to narrow down who might’ve placed this ad.

Robert Redford, RIP [The Village Voice, Jan 2, 1978]

Be like Mike [Seven Days, Nov 13, 1996]

"By the conventional standards of the community, you three people live under somewhat unusual circumstances"