1993
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comic eXpressions, a comic-and-collectable store, opens. It is owned by my borderline-white-trash family.
I picked out the name and designed the logo at 12. And provided lots of illegal child labor, too.
But at least I got free comics.
* * * I am not allowed to watch MTV, but I do anyway. I watch "Beavis & Butthead" before it becomes wildly popular, and then stop soon after. I quote the show while cooking in Home Economics class with Mrs. Kohler. No one gets the reference and I get funny looks.
* * * Scott, a quite effeminate school chum who also likes video games, invites me to see Jurassic Park. We travel a forty-five minutes to the closest theater. Scott and his mother scream like the women they are throughout the film. Scott soon moves away, thankfully before we can sexually experiment and become boyfriends.
* * * I am, like, so into Mariah Carey! "Dreamlover" is the best song. Ever! I join a CD club illegally and order lots of CDs--Billy Joel's River of Dreams, The Bodyguard soundtrack, Toni Braxton--and never pay a cent, because I am a minor. Take that, Columbia House! My mom hates you!
* * * Every morning, I wake up at 5:30AM to enjoy some peace and quiet (remember: I live in a house with a 3yo and a 1yo) before school. My ritual includes cereal and watching CNN Headline News and E!'s Talk Soup, then hosted by Greg Kinnear. Then I walk to the bus stop at 7:30.
My twelve-year-old brain is convinced that E! is a gay channel, largely due to Kinnear's femme hosting job. I feel dirty everytime I watch it... and yet I cannot stop.
* * * I buy Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers trading cards at Wal-Mart "for my brother" (then three), but secretly I look at them when no one else is around.
* * * I am devestated when the sitcom Phenom, about "a young tennis pro [who] must struggle with the challenges of life, along with her single mother (Judith Light)," is cancelled after a brief run. I find solace in the Fox Network, particularly In Living Color and The Simpsons.
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If it makes you feel better Crash, I was the uber-dork that did a speech my first semester of college about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1996). I got an A on the speech, but oddly enough, was never spoken to by another student in the class. It was later that year that I discovered John Waters, and true camp, and finally understood my fascination with the Power Rangers.
Last year, I met a professor named Amy Jo Johnson, but alas...she was not the original pink Ranger.
Posted by Rick
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