The Class of 1990

My SWGHS class reunion was last October, but at the time I was so deep in the Big Red Engine craziness I really didn’t have time to think about what life was like back in 1990. Tonight, as I was working out I noticed an old Purple Rain video was on and it got me thinking about what movies, tv shows, songs, etc. were all the rage in 1990, the year the Class of 1990 said good-bye to lockers, pep rallies and Friday night football. So for the Class of 1990, these are for you. Movie of the Year: Driving Miss Daisy (Never did see that one. Somehow watching an old woman get driven around didn’t appeal to me then or now.) Best Comedy: Murphy Brown (This show inspired me that if I never married, I could still have a kid on my own. I guess this could still...

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Does Reality Still Bite?

My Saturday morning started with an early morning showing of the 1994 Gen X classic, Reality Bites. Fifteen years later, the movie still strikes a chord and makes me wonder if we ever got over our quest for nirvana in a world ruled by Baby Boomers? Looking around at my friends, it seems we’ve grown up. After all, we’ve moved out of sharing an apartment and rent with friends, to sharing a mortgage with a spouse. We’ve traded the Big Gulp for Chardonnay and microbrews. And we’ve moved from The Gap to jobs with companies that provide benefits to our families and pay us enough well enough to send our kids to private school. On the surface, reality doesn’t look so bad anymore. Or does it? Today’s reality equals mortgages, child care, car payments,...

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The Mr. T Influence

Sometimes when my evil twin and angelic twin  collide they do not always play fairly. Today, my angelic twin was cleaning out old photos and having difficulty throwing away such precious faces from the past. And then my evil twin appeared and said, why not scan and make a post of it.  Now I did spare some of them for future posts when the two forces will inevitably collide again, but today, I was taken in by the huge Mr. T influence of gold necklaces, which all those dear friends who were kind enough to give me their school photo are proudly...

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Things that make me feel like a kid

Summer is my favorite season. I love it when it’s real humid and is in the 90′s. It just reminds me of being a kid again, growing up in NC. So today, as I sat with my feet dangling in the pool, I contemplated all those things that make me still feel like a kid. 1. Eating a PB&J sandwich anytime of the year, but especially after a day at the pool. 2. Jumping off the diving board. I think I could still do a back flip. 3. Doing a cartwheel in the grass barefooted. 4. Drinking a slurpee/slushee from 7-11. 5. Swimming under water for as long as I can hold my breath. 6. Riding a bike down hill. 7. Playing basketball in the driveway. 8. Waving sparklers on the 4th of July. 9. Eating Halloween candy for breakfast. 10. Playing PacMan or Centipede at the...

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One of the 1 Billion

Today, I became part of the 1 billion people that watched the Michael Jackson Memorial. This after, an e-mail from the Staples Center, “Sorry, we regret to inform you that your registration to attend the public Michael Jackson Memorial was not selected.” Okay, so maybe I was planning to sell my ticket to pay off a credit card, but it didn’t mean I wasn’t intrigued by the hype of the event. Thanks to an early meeting with a future client, I made it home just in time to see the casket rolling in alongside Michael’s band of brothers adorning the iconic sequined, one-glove; and all this to the tune, “Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.” A creepy, eerie feeling overwhelms me and I begin to wonder if they were implying MJ was the king or was...

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