Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
Neil and Bob love energy drinks, but chugging a couple of Electric Bull Juices and then trying to watch a movie proves nearly impossible.
Our 1984 prom theme was Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah, I know. I was a nerd who loved D&D and even I thought it was lame. The pungent stench of mildew eminated from the dank gymnasium walls that night.
At PHS, prom was held in the school gym. It was a catered affair with a live band that played until around 11:00. Afterwards was the “after prom entertainment”, which that year consisted of we (those who hadn’t been invited to a kegger out in the middle of a cornfield somewhere) cramming into the charmingly dilapidated Orleans theater to watch Footloose.
Every kid should have the opportunity to grow up in a hay-seed town where the Friday night football game is the topic of conversation for days before and after. Where the same four old men in overalls and trucker caps sit on the worn bench in front of the courthouse to talk cattle, carburetors, and politics. Where the local drugstore still hands out orange and black paper trick or treat bags before Halloween (okay, maybe that’s a stretch, but wouldn’t it be great?), and where the prom looks a lot like the dance at the end of Footloose, except without all the glitter, and nobody can actually dance.
There was a simplicity that we took for granted. It was enough to wax up the Oldsmobile, get dressed to the nines and eat a chicken dinner in the highschool gym. Although, looking back now I realize that my velvet-ish burgundy tux wasn’t really the fashion statement I thought I was making at the time.
If there is any point whatsoever to today’s post, some message for you to take with you into the weekend, it is this: HairoftheDogBawls is what you get when you mix two of those crazy “energy drinks” together. Guess which two. Oh, and don’t go to the prom if your tux has glitter on it…or something.
Today’s Highlights:
Perseid Meteor Shower peaks Sunday night (August 12)
If this UFO sighting were only real. Great production work, though.
Is Windows Vista (choke – hurl) actually helping Linux Desktop?
Indian Superman and Spider–…hot SpiderChick? Must look away…but…can’t