My Uncle Dan's Obituary

Daniel L. McLellan (click to see his obituary.) RIP

80s Pop Explosion

80s Pop Explosion


My mother recently brought me some big containers full of stuff I put in the crawl space at at my parents house before I moved out for college...

They were like time capsules.....one with my Cabbage Patch Dolls (a female astronaut, a world traveler girl from spain, and a boy that I got when getting any "Cabbage" was impossible, with parents going to throws for that last dolls. There were also stuffed animals from miscellaneous relatives and ex-boyfriends.

The other was full of my Space Camp memorabilia, my toy space shuttles and old teen magazines. Teen Beat, Bop, you name it- most without covers and disected for the posters inside. Also, my Corey Haim shrine- well, not really a shrine, but hundreds of pictures I had cut out and collected from the miscellaneous teen magazines that lay before me. They were displayed on one wall of my room. Before I took them down I took a picture and I still have that picture in a photo album. Everything in that container was covered in mildew- do you know why? When Coke changed their formula in 1985, I decided to save a can of the old formula in the original can (believing at the time that the old formula was forever lost, and this would be a relic someday). Apparently, there was an 80's pop explosion- an empty can remains!

It is too cool to look at that old stuff, even though it smells horribly! Too bad me and Nic buried the Garbage Pail Kids in the back yard........

Montage of Troy and Melissa Meissner's Wedding

I made this photo montage of Troy and Melissa's wedding in Fort Collins.

The song is "Montage" from the Team America, World Police Soundtrack.

Imagine (by John Lennon) Video by Bowiechick

I'M A NORNNA FAN

You are going to think I'm crazy, but I can't help it- I started watching her videos a few weeks back on youtube.com. She video tapes everything she does- including eating and powdering her feet. The more you watch her the more you really like her- she is such a real person. Here is my favorite Nornna video so far.


You can see Nornna at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Nornna

Update: Nornna's account got suspended because she made a video of herself in the bathtub. I would look up her new account, but don't want anyone to get tangled in her messed up little world.

The evolution of chicken products and the Cola Wars.

Kids today would not believe us, but when were were kids there were not chicken nuggets! Chicken McNugget's weren't released by McDonald's until 1984, so I were 9 years old at the time. Once they were released they were very popular and usually served with honey. We wonder what advances in "chicken processing technology" made these products so widely available so suddenly. Before this time if had chicken it was whole, legs, or the breast was on the bone. I don't remember any boneless chicken breasts although I'm sure they were around but probably just too expensive.
I often wonder what it's like to be a child born in the 90's- do they think this stuff was around forever?
Somehow this discussion with Chad turned to the Cola Wars---- the fact that there really was this big media war over Coke and Pepsi. If our civilization ends and its ancient ruins are discovered by explorers, will they really think that the Cola Wars were real?

Mimes are people, too.

This morning we saw a commercial on TBS. It was a mime in a box and a mime outside a box pretending to be in a box. The question, which is funnier?
I say, give mimes a break. At least they don't talk- and they really are the least threatening of clowns.
When did it come so socially acceptable to bash mimes? Why do we do that? We're just prejudiced and don't think about it. Are they really that annoying? How often has any of us really encountered an annoying mime (reminds me of Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie?) Have we been brainwashed by movies and popular culture to dislike mimes?
Anyway, I pick the mime pretending to be in a box, instead of the one actually in the box. The mime in the box looked really sad.

http://www.tbshumorstudy.com

Bad Publicity is Still Publicity.

Surfing around Yahoo! News I came across a story titled " • Listen to Kevin Federline's first single 'PopoZao'". I had to click. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Fed's first single, "Ya'll Ain't Ready."
There is something to be said for anything that makes you laugh so hard. There was no sense of rhythm and the lyrics were horrible, making it even more hysterical. The song got into my head, but I hated it. I would recite the lyrics to Chad causing him to laugh, but an annoying laugh.
What is it with this guy? I really can't stand him. I'm not really a (post-K'Fed marriage) Britney fan, either.
I always think that it's a little mean of me to dislike him so much, but I think most of it is because of him leaving his pregnant girlfriend for Britney Spears. I wonder if he'll be famous because so many people dislike him? I mean, this guy is still getting coverage although he clearly has no musical talent what-so-ever. Will people's annoyance with K'Fed propel him to stardom?
He reminds me of a few kids I went to school with- everyone disliked them, but yet they were almost popular. Bad publicity is still publicity, and people like me need to stop clicking on the links and giving them incentive to release their crappy music. My media player wasn't compatible, anyway.