I was thinking today of my general fandom and thought it might be useful to plot it out in terms of time. So here's a list of things I was obsessed with (not just things I liked, things I was like weirdly OBSESSED with). Maybe one day I will make a graphical representation of it (or more likely, ask Yoko to do it for me, jk jk). Also, I can't remember exactly when some of these things fell, so maybe my mom will correct me (look for mom-ments below). Also, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you somehow managed to not know what a big nerd I am, you may not want to read this... sigh, this is probably a huge mistake.
1986-1987 breast milk
1988-1990 silky objects, Heart, Bert
1991-1994 I don't remember. Was I even a real person then?
1994-1997 The Disney Channel (mostly Mickey Mouse Club, Adventures in Wonderland, and Kids Incorporated), Babysitter's Club books, Ghostwriter, wearing a pen around my neck and pretending I was Harriet the Spy
1994-2006 hoarding large stashes of Japanese candy
1995-1997 All That
1996-1999 Weird Al, Spice Girls, Hard Candy nail polish
1996-2006 cutting pictures out of magazines, showtunes
1996-2003 Friends
1997-1999 Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Tyson Beckford (okay, this is really weird, but when i was like a LITTLE GIRL, i really liked big black guys. and then suddenly, that just reversed itself and i started liking really dorky skinny white guys. and that has continued to this day. explain that to me.)
1998-2002 Jelly Roll pens
1998-2003 Rent
1999-2001 2gether (specifically Jason "QT" McKnight, RIP)
1998-2001 Neopets
1999-2002 Snood
2001-2005 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Seth Green
2001-present 80s music
2002-2006 Jimmy Fallon
2003-2006 The OC, Adam Brody
2003-present UCB Theater, Minesweeper
3 comments:
Minesweeper still? Haha, when do you have a chance to play it? Did you get a Mac version?
88-89 breeds of dogs, your bottle, climbing monkey bars, sand boxes
88-91 piles of books, one more story, point to the words
Your entire childhood (I can't remember the years): your Halloween costume - obsessive discussions from April through October What will I be?
Somewhere in there - pogs, hats, Absolut ads, Double Dare, free postcards, tap dancing (all the time, on lines, on stairs), Alternating a book with a magazine, reading every word
Dress up
Writing, publishing, and selling your own newspaper
Writing, performing, printing tickets for your one girl (until you got your cousin involved) shows
I know more will come to me and I will probably have to write a whole post on it.
I love your post! Made me laugh and made me remember my good 'ol days too. I so LOVE Kristy Thomas!
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