Thursday, December 19, 2002

Yesterday? I got a wonderful email from an old friend. It made me laugh so I'm sharing it: About a month ago, I was flipping through the channels and came in at the beginning of a retrospective on the "25 Years of Punk" --- on VH1. Sitting in the comfort of my nice middle class home, watching on my 32" TV powered by 200+ channels of cable, my wife asleep on the couch, 2 kids tucked away in their beds, watching the screaming chaos that is Punk and fondly remembering my frequent exposure to it. Then, a couple of nights ago, flipping the channels (200+ channel;s and nothin' on), again on VH1, I catch "I Love The 80s", a disjointed celebration of all that was the 80s (Rubik's Cube, Valley Girls, "Thriller", Poison, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, the A-Team - Mr. T was 'bling, bling' before it was even 'bling, bling', Cabbage Patch rage - and kids getting stomped on by adults in the madness). VH1 -- the choice of old, fat, bald, boomer white men. Is this how our parents felt? No one item has convinced me of the passage of time then the fact that you can have a hit TV show based on the OZ's family life. For some reason that really hurts, doh!...mj 9:46:37 AM

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