Someone Stole My Bike in the 80s
January 23, 2006
“In the early eighties kids tried to do clever stunts on their BMX bikes, but invariably ended up with grazes and broken bones instead.” –Read more.
I was into the BMX craze in the 80s. I even took up a paper route so I could get my one imitation BMX. My plan was to eventually get costum parts for it and do some incredible stunts.
But my bike got stolen not even a week after I bought it with my hard earned money. The bike was $149 which was a LOT of money for a 14 year old in the 80s. That experience changed my perspective on the area I lived in and the people around me.
It is difficult to savor a steak around hungry dogs.
I guess its like Mos Def says in Got: “There's hunger in the street that is hard to defeat/Many steal for sport, but more steal to eat.”
I'm a bit jaded by this and many other experiences I had in the 80s on haves vs. have nots.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Someone Stole My Bike in the 80s
January 23, 2006
“In the early eighties kids tried to do clever stunts on their BMX bikes, but invariably ended up with grazes and broken bones instead.” –Read more.
I was into the BMX craze in the 80s. I even took up a paper route so I could get my one imitation BMX. My plan was to eventually get costum parts for it and do some incredible stunts.
But my bike got stolen not even a week after I bought it with my hard earned money. The bike was $149 which was a LOT of money for a 14 year old in the 80s. That experience changed my perspective on the area I lived in and the people around me.
It is difficult to savor a steak around hungry dogs.
I guess its like Mos Def says in Got: “There's hunger in the street that is hard to defeat/Many steal for sport, but more steal to eat.”
I'm a bit jaded by this and many other experiences I had in the 80s on haves vs. have nots.
Popularity: 2% [?]
80s Girl Cartoons
January 23, 2006
I hated all cartoons that were market for girls. This is because I had three sisters and everytime Rainbow Brite or Golden Girl and the Guardians of the Gemstone or She-Ra, Gem, or strawberry shortcake came on, I had to argue with them about watching more important cartoons like: Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, and others.
I did like the She-Ra tie-in with he man. Sometimes you'd see the same villian from He Man take shots at She-Ra. And the art was great just like He Man. My sisters thought that Gem was truly outrageous… truly, truly, truly outrageous, but I thought her and Synergy sucked. She was kinda hot for a poorly rendered 80s cartoon. But why were the Misfits so weak.
And then you have the REALLY girlly cartoons: Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite and Carebears. I despised these shows. I could not figure out why they loved these cartoons so much. Since I was the oldest I'd already out grown the baby stuff and actually wanted stuff to blow up or fly off a cliff every once in a while during the show. The really girly shows didn't have any Third Earth Mutants, no demonic sorcerers, or people living is Skull shaped castles and definitely no robots in disguise. All they had were rainbows, belly ”care” beams in the shape of hearts, berry loving sprites skipping gayly through candy cane forests… Stuff that make you want to put a cute little bunny in a sling shot!
The funny thing is that now that I'm an old man with my own little girl, I love that girly baby stuff because my daughter loves it.
Popularity: 8% [?]
80s Girl Cartoons
January 23, 2006
I hated all cartoons that were market for girls. This is because I had three sisters and everytime Rainbow Brite or Golden Girl and the Guardians of the Gemstone or She-Ra, Gem, or strawberry shortcake came on, I had to argue with them about watching more important cartoons like: Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, and others.
I did like the She-Ra tie-in with he man. Sometimes you'd see the same villian from He Man take shots at She-Ra. And the art was great just like He Man. My sisters thought that Gem was truly outrageous… truly, truly, truly outrageous, but I thought her and Synergy sucked. She was kinda hot for a poorly rendered 80s cartoon. But why were the Misfits so weak.
And then you have the REALLY girlly cartoons: Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite and Carebears. I despised these shows. I could not figure out why they loved these cartoons so much. Since I was the oldest I'd already out grown the baby stuff and actually wanted stuff to blow up or fly off a cliff every once in a while during the show. The really girly shows didn't have any Third Earth Mutants, no demonic sorcerers, or people living is Skull shaped castles and definitely no robots in disguise. All they had were rainbows, belly ”care” beams in the shape of hearts, berry loving sprites skipping gayly through candy cane forests… Stuff that make you want to put a cute little bunny in a sling shot!
The funny thing is that now that I'm an old man with my own little girl, I love that girly baby stuff because my daughter loves it.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Something for the Kids (80s Style)
January 22, 2006
This is a kids book online check it out.
In the 80s, Sesame St. was THE
Kids show to watch.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Something for the Kids (80s Style)
January 22, 2006
This is a kids book online check it out.
In the 80s, Sesame St. was THE
Kids show to watch.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Lourdes criticises Madonna's dress sense
January 2, 2006
Madonna's fashion sense has come under fire from her daughter Lourdes,
who is embarrassed when her mum collects her from school dressed like a
pop star.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Lourdes criticises Madonna's dress sense
January 2, 2006
Madonna's fashion sense has come under fire from her daughter Lourdes,
who is embarrassed when her mum collects her from school dressed like a
pop star.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Be your inner Jedi with the starwars lightsabre battles game.
January 2, 2006
This thing rocks; I just saw it for the first time. Pretty decent
little light sabre game you play on tv with a dedicated console. Not
just for kids, this is the thing people will start doing at 4:25.
Popularity: 22% [?]
Replica of K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider for $20k
January 2, 2006
An eBay seller is offering a replica of K.I.T.T. from the Knight Rider
series for $20,000. Includes tons of pictures and four videos. Pretty
amazing how accurate it looks. Now I know why they save up for a rainy
day.
Popularity: 31% [?]
