The other day, during one of my many sojourns on the Internets, I came across a site that instantly transported me back a quarter-century and restored my faith in humankind all at once. First, some background…
Back many many years ago, my dad used to take us out to the Illinois Bell building on Hazel Dell [...]
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Liquid Blue on “Mode B,” January 1993
(The handsome but heavy-lidded dude on the left side of the screen is yours truly.)
Back in high school, I was in a rock band. It was the thing to do then.
We started during my junior year, playing during halftime of basketball games with me on vocals and our band teacher on bass. The combination of [...]
1965 Schwinn Twinn
Normally, I’m the one looking for bikes. This one found me.
Years ago in college, I had a crappy Web page (built by my non-code-knowing ass with Adobe PageMill) that had pictures of my two Schwinns and my friends’ bikes. Apparently, a gentleman who lived in southern Illinois and had a bike to unload found that [...]
My last experience with an Earthquake
Within about two seconds of this morning’s shaking subsiding, there were two children and a dog climbing into bed. Luckily, I was so tired that the adrenalin wore off quickly. I still had two hours of sleep to pack in before the alarm went off.
I was probably 11 years old the last time I was [...]
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
It’s Valentine’s Day, and I didn’t get anything for Mrs. Communist. It’s OK, though; we both agree that it’s a stupid, made-up holiday. What she really wants already is in the fridge anyway, chilling inside brown bottles.
Valentine’s Day did, however, play a role in our courtship back in the day.
Our story begins in January 1993, [...]
Sorry, Grace… back in the box
Without a doubt, “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” was the best show on Saturday mornings during the 1980s.
It basically was the kids-TV version of a Salvador Dali painting, featuring numerous non-human characters like Conky, Chairry, Globy and Pteri. There also were many human inhabitants of Pee Wee’s world: Miss Yvonne, Ricardo, the King of Cartoons, and, of [...]
Crispin Glover is a strange dude
You may remember him from such movies as “Back to the Future” and “Teachers.” This is from a 1987 appearance on “Late Night with David Letterman”:
For more of the genius of Crispin Glover, check out “Clowny Clown Clown.”
Hat tip to Your Neighbor.
Top 5 worst hair band songs
There are few subgenres of rock music more loathsome than hair metal. Or poodle rock, or butt rock, or cock rock, whatever you want to call it. It all sucks.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, hair metal enjoyed unchallenged popularity on MTV, which was most kids’ main source of music back then (and which actually played music [...]
Sweet music
Most of my music listening gets done with the iPod on shuffle. Driving to work yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised when this shuffled up:
Ahh… this brings up good memories of the Spring 1995 semester in Boomer II. If I could only remember…
March 3, 1993
That’s the future Mrs. C and me, in love before we actually knew.