January 11, 2010
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Remembering TheWonder Years
The Daily News1 Are ya lovin' stuff? Sure hope so!
2 Love the amount of boushit that comes down the pike each day.
3 To me, it was all about F000000BOWL!
4 If you're at best a marginal fan, you had to love the Cards/Packers game yesterday.
5 LOVED it. I'm not exactly an Arizona fan, but I DO love watching games in which everyone competed, and fought it all with everything they got. Haha, defensive battle, right? Aerial warfare.
6 In my youthful days, foooooobowl was everything.
7 We played street, and howwwwwrd! <fb translation: hard>.
8 Welp, at one time I played a defensive back in our neighborhood games, which is truly a swift-footed fool whose job was to shut down a power-packed receiver.
9 Well, it was many and many a year's ago...
10 Haha!
11 Actually, it was a neighborhood game that pitted the guys who lived up the hill against the guys who lived down the hill. It was an annual mudnblood game, always held on Thanksgiving. My greatest game was this one that happened in my Junior year in high school.
12 I hadda guard this guy who was a track star, all speed, and athletic beyond me own personal realm, but I rode his jock, the entire game!
13 He could do nothing, and I LOVED it, especially since the girl I crushed on for three years earlier was his babe.
14 At the end of the game, I blocked one last pass, and swatted it away with a resounding vigor, and WE won the game as a result!
15 Greatest defensive play of my life, and to this day I love it. He completely lost his cool-guy composure, right in front of her, and chirped ridiculously into my face that it was a bad hit. I maintain to this moment that it was clean, no interference, and he was just pissed that he got outplayed. I looked over at her and gave a smile, and stayed cool. Great Kevin Arnold moment. If you're a Wonder Year's fan, Kevin was the protagonist.
16 I have NO idea why I'm reporting this except that I thought many of youse are athletic, and would appreciate the story. Wonder Year's, by the way, was inspired by the immortal Jean Shepherd, whose anecdotal book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and his short story Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories inspired the classic Christmas film, The Christmas Story. The title The Wonder Years came to us from an old television commercial for Wonder Bread, a commercial that started with these words: "These are the Wonder years, the growth years..." in an attempt to sell the public of the health benefits of white bread.17 My Dad worked for Wonder Bread way back when, so it was particularly personal to me. We also used to get Hostess products for free, which made me one of the most popular guys in the neighborhood. I loved it.
18 Moving on, Part the First: Wow. So much stuff! Dad is cool and marinating. I've had some amazing moments with people who are awesome!
19 I haven't had a chance to talk with him about that game, but I'm going to call later today. We are at crunch time, first semester grades are due this week, so I've been getting little sleep for the past week, which always turns me into an exhausted mess.20 Anyway, rested comfortably yesterday, and after having missed a few gym days, got back on it over the weekend.
21 And blah, blah, blah. Sounds like a blahg, doesn't it?
22 One thing the DN isn't is a blog. Blogs are ripoffs of the classic DN's in my book lol. <--------laughing out loud, or to some, lots of love in the RIDICULOUS world of texting, twittering, blogging, aiming, and anything else that lacks real talking and communicating.
23 But don't get me goin'.
24 Well, amazing what a great game of foooooobowl could do for the soul. Brought back some fond memories, and I was able to bring one small episode to share. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, by the way, is a GREAT short story about a guy going through the teenage ritual of asking a girl to the prom, getting fitted, completely blowing it, and his subsequent thoughts about the rituals we go through in life. One of the great short stories of all time.
25 I haven't watched The Wonder Years for a few years now. Last time I did, it held up quite well. We went on a binge two years ago in Tahoe.
26 I may start up again. It's probably a great thing to have on as a lamp while grading papers.
27 Gottago.
28 Have the sweetest Monday ever.
29 Peace.
~H~
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