Humor Blogging, Mostly
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…