Random picture: My nephew CEN. I used to be a CEN critic…these days I’m a big CEN fan.
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Señor Christian E. Neill |
In 1984 I was walking up the front steps of Fremd High School. A kid in front of me has Judas Priest cranked on his enormous boom-box. A Tommy Chong sounding stoner with hair down to his butt stops to ask, “Hey man, does it play Zeppelin?”. Boom-boxer mumbles “No”. Stoner says, “Then what good is it man?”
In 1995 I was in Pasadena several days before the Rose Bowl parade. Hundreds of people pitched tents on the sidewalk, securing front row seats. I saw an ordinary-looking family of four, laying on a blanket, listening to the Sex Pistols blasting from their dad’s boom-box. (For the record, one day I’m gonna camp there with Zach.)
Every summer from 1999-2001, a well oiled brotha sat next to the bike path at Chicago’s Oak Street Beach blaring 80’s metal on his boom-box. For all I know, my head-bangin’ negro still rocks out every summer. (After Zach was born, I quit riding my bike.)
My three cousins and aunt invited me over for a Christmas lunch. Today I learned that my grandma was once busted for gardening in the nude – at the age of 94. Also…I’ve never figured out how my Grandma lived with both her husband and ex-husband at the same time. Reverse Mormonism?