It’s hard for me to think of the 1990s as ‘period’. That was the decade in which I turned 30 and began having a professional life (of sorts) and feels to me relatively recent, not that far in my past. Of course that was thirty years ago–THIRTY YEARS AGO–and the 90s are as distant as the 2020s will be to those looking back at our unfortunate times in the 2050s. (Unless their time is even worse than the current). What better way to evoke an era than by looking at its advertising? I’ve been posting these very amusing reels of 70s/80s and now 90s commercials on and off over the past several weeks so here we are again. You’ll see commercials for Haliburton, Enron, Cosby for Jello, views of the World Trade Center and–warning–Trump shows up for a burger ad. I have mixed feelings about his appearance here. On the one hand it’s Trump so it nauseates me. On the other hand this is the harmless Trump of thirty years ago; I found myself in the odd position of missing this Trump and wishing he’d never changed. He’s downright likable compared to what we now have to face every day…