Tag: the nineties
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Have you ever been roofied? I have.
Picture it … Fire Island, 1990-something … My friends and I rented a house for the summer. Late one afternoon, before getting ready to go out for the evening, my girlfriends and I decided to stop at a party where we knew some of the guys renting the house. The brother of one of our…
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Me & Teara got flashed while on the street.
I’m on a real reminiscing kick lately so … 🎶 Here’s a little story for y’all to peep, it’s called “Me & Teara got flashed while on the street”🎶 (sang to the tune of the Beastie Boys “Mike on the Mic” from Paul’s Boutique.) Teara and I lived less than a mile from every public…
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Cigarettes & lunch.
In the summer between 7th & 8th grade, almost every day, I’d dip into my birthday money, meet my across the street neighbor/BFF Christine in the middle of the street, and say, “Let’s go up to the stores.” She’d run back into her house grab some money and a lighter, and yell to her mom…
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PEN15
We started watching a brilliant new show on Hulu called Pen15. It’s pronounced “pen fifteen” but I’m sure it’s supposed to look like ‘PENIS’ – like when you type 58008 on a calculator then turn it upside-down and it says ‘BOOBS’. Brilliant not just because I saw the name Jorma Taccone ❤️ flash by on…
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When I’m rich.
Back when Diddy was Puff Daddy and his undeniably fabulous album No Way Out gave us the song Been Around the World – a track that mimicked the Lisa Stansfield song of the same name and sampled David Bowie’s Let’s Dance – there was one line that might be my favorite of any song ever…
