Fashion trends of my youth fluff

I'll be honest with you. I rocked Nikes whenever I could back in the day. You know how people say that there is one special someone for them in this world? Well, Nikes are my special shoes someone. So it is with little trepidation that I unveil a debatably fashionable shoe for that a**.

Vision Street Wear gave us these beauties pictured above. Neither really cool nor really uncool, they blurred the lines of acceptability like a passable tranny whos adam's apple is just a little to noticeable. I would never have dreamed of sporting these moon slippers. But the "skaters" loved them. You know, they wore the clothes but really didn't spring for the skateboards. Really long bangs. You remember.

I don't know if anyone special in your previous life was lucky enough to own a pair of these babies. I just had a dream last night about wearing them so there you have it.

Bingo time! Maybe not

It has been a long time since I posted last. I sincerely apologize. (Tears falling) Ok, I guess it's time to get motivated again. Thank you so much for reading and for all or your comments. You= Thu-Mai.

My #5 8 Bit but really 16 Bit Fluff

Tecmo NBA Basketball kicks off the top 5 of my best retro games list. It was a very fun game to play. It had spectacular NBA action and graphics that were awesome at that time. This was also one of the few games where you could play as Michael Jordan. I loved MJ!=my favorite game. The game was the first to include every player on every team's roster. You know you want to throw down some thunder jams with bearded oak bedroom set Mark Eaton.

This was not played on the NES, but the Super Nintendo. 8 bit and 16 bit are more similar than advertised. Its my blog so make like a tree and get the heck outta here.

This video captures the magic of this game and a severe groin injury sustained by Charles Oakley.

For My Sister Fluff

While fondly thinking back on a childhood full of toys I thought about all the female readers of this blog and how maybe she feels left out. So naturally I thought about toys that my sister (I'll call her J) had and I smashed. One came to mind. I didn't smash it.

On Christmas Day in 1987, Cricket was born. Or opened. Cricket was a doll that would move its mouth along to a cassette tape, giving her a life-like appearance. I know J really wanted a Cricket. The only problem was that when it arrived, it was already broken. No store exchange for you! This was the hottest toy on the planet at the time. No stores in our hometown had them. So poor J was stuck with a Cricket that could never spread its wings and fly and mouth along to a cassette tape. God I miss cassette tapes.

Defects and all, J still spent hours playing with Cricket. They would laugh and talk for hours and then once in awhile, Cricket would kill one of us. Cricket was sold at a garage sale.

You Contribute Content Because I Am Too Lazy Fluff

Ha! Really I'm requesting some of your favorite movie soundtrack songs from the 80's or 90's. Molim te!? Any memories associated with these songs would be awesome as well.

My wife thinks that if I grew a long beard and let the hair go for about a year I might resemble Kenny Loggins ca. 1986. To most, if not all of you, that might not sound too appealing. Well in my case it is most beneficial. Wifey really digs that Kenny. Anyway! My favorites obviously include a few Loggins and Messina (minus Messina) songs. Top Gun, Caddyshack, Over the Top, and Footloose!? That could be the top 4 right there.

So please give to this charity. Any references to Dan Fogelberg will be noted. (Warning: Picture may be NSFW for my wife)

TV Music Fluff

I think i must have watched every episode of every show that was on television (no soaps) between 1986 and 1997. My favorite show of all time is Roseanne. The Conner's could have been your next door neighbors. They lived just like we all did. It's still on and I still watch it.

I believe it was the time slot after Roseanne that was occupied by another hit show, Blossom. It starred Mayim Blechhhblechhblechh in the title role. A big nosed funny looking probably in real-life jewish kid who was doing the things that teens in school do. She had a friend named Six (pronounced Kate) and two brothers named Joey (Joseph Lawrence) and Anthony (Michael Stoyanov). Father of this brood was Nick, played with much aplomb by Ted Wass. In a so 90's plot, Nick plays a session musician, Anthony a recovering drug addict, and Joey a dumb jock.

Few decades can be summed up in a single event. The most symbolic event since the moon landing, Joey Lawrence gave us "Whoa!". Everyone hopped on the bandwagon and tried to perfect their Whoa. I am still perfecting mine.

The success of Blossom propelled young Joey from Philly to superstardom. He released a self-titled album in 1993 and gave us this uptempo amfum.

And the Parents of the Decade Award goes to.....

The parents of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman! Come on up and accept your severe public shame bracelet and this handsome Susan Smith Crystal Teardrop Trophy.

The Coreys are everything you could want in giant teen idols. They had hit movies, girls liked them, and they even acted together a time or two. With their success came temptations O'Plenty. Money was no object, and that object was drugs. Coke, LSD, Dutch Boy, and Elmer's Glue emptied their pockets until they were forced to do soft-core porn with Nicole Eggert for a late night Showtime movie.

Mr. Haim and Mr. Feldman have struggled but maintained through the years. Remember Corey Feldman's Michael Jackson phase? Yeah, that happened. There was a rumor going around that Corey Haim had tried to sell some of his teeth on eBay. Sad. I don't think it's true, though. The Coreys star in their own reality series on some channel that I don't watch. Haim seems to have a mouthful of what appear to be his own chomp chomps. Beware! I think the show is scripted.

Our teen idols started smoking when they were 10 (Drew Barrymore), dated each other (Feldman and Alyssa Milano), and posed for Playboy when they were washed up (Tiffany). Miley Cyrus who?