April 2011 - Mark Kaplowitz

25 April 2011

Remember When It Was Fun To Go To the Movies?

This was the title of one of my earliest posts, but that post did not express what I truly felt in my heart on this subject. A more proper treatment follows. Remember when it was fun to go to the movies? I do. Going to the movies as a kid was one of my more cherished experiences during the Reagan...

Television and Movies Comments: 0

22 April 2011

Remember Playing Board Games?

Remember playing board games? I do. When I was a child we did not have HBO or video games or a computer, so if I wanted to have fun I had to either set something on fire or play a board game. Candy Land was where I matched my wits against other members of my family. The object was to...

Childhood Memories Comments: 0

14 April 2011

Remember When Video Games Did Not Feature Flying Body Parts?

Remember when video games did not feature flying body parts? I do. I grew up in the days before federal law protected a child’s right to play video games, and my parents decreed that it was more important that I learn to read and write and look at people when I talk to them instead of living vicariously through jump-kicking...

Technology Comments: 0

7 April 2011

Remember When Wishing Someone a Happy Birthday Was Not Done Digitally?

Remember when wishing someone a happy birthday was not done digitally? I do. When I was a child, happy birthdays were wished in person, by a group of peers surrounding the birthday boy or girl, wearing cone-shaped hats with an elastic chinstrap stapled to the sides, and singing the song “Happy Birthday” while a parent tried not to drop the...

Technology Comments: 0

4 April 2011

Remember Y2K?

Remember Y2K? I do. In the late nineties, as the year 2000 approached and everyone prepared to trade in their cars for flying machines, we started hearing about something called “Y2K.” At first I thought this was a knock-off of the singing group Boyz II Men, but it was in fact a computer bug, and meant that the disk space...

Technology Comments: 0

Monthly Archive: April, 2011

Remember When It Was Fun To Go To the Movies?

Remember Playing Board Games?

Remember When Video Games Did Not Feature Flying Body Parts?

Remember When Wishing Someone a Happy Birthday Was Not Done Digitally?

Remember Y2K?