I spent my elementary school years playing the Nintendo Entertainment System the way the Asian kids studied math. It was a glorious time. There were no system wars: You owned an NES or you were a bigger outcast than the children whose parents were divorced. And, then, a funny thing […]
Mine is a strange, obsessive-compulsive mind. A few weeks ago, out of nowhere, I got the urge to hear Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” A normal person would have gone to YouTube, had a listen and been done with it. Not me. I played the track 30 […]
As a kid, there were a few sitcom stars I had crushes on. Six of Blossom fame and Topanga of Boy Meets World (seen here and here, respectively, making strong cases for their continued employment) were high seeds, and I lost my spank-the-monkey cherry to none other than Clarissa herself, […]
From the age of eight all the way until 25 or so, I was very passionate about music. I own around 500 CDs (that statement couldn’t make me sound older if I were bragging about listening to them as I sailed for the Indies in order to bring the Queen […]
When it comes to memories of my life that predate my getting hair down there, there’s precious little I recall. I owned a red bike with weird plastic plates over the spokes that I thought looked cool but made it a bitch to pump the tires. I loved pizza day […]
Yesterday’s article, “I Miss AOL Instant Messenger (“article” sounds much more professional than “blog whose third paragraph I wrote while on the john”) seemed to get a lot of people reminiscing about the good old days of instant messenging, myself included. Tons of you reminded me that there was far […]
By today’s standards, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a friggin’ fossil. It does nothing other than let people send text messages to one another, a job Gchat, Facebook and your cell phone have more than taken over by this point. But in its day, there was one thing AIM had […]
The other day I got to thinking that there are a crapton of books from my childhood I barely remember. Countless novels I either napped through as they were read aloud to the class or that I churned through so quickly in order to claim my Book It! points that […]