Veggie-my-whaties?

I wish I could remember how I stumbled upon Veggiemacabre’s blog one day, and give credit where credit is due, but that’s like chasing grains of sand in the wind (ooo, deep).

Anywho, if you are between the ages of 25 and 35 and would like a nostalgic blast from the past, surf on over and check out his ‘Where have you been?‘ posts: a collection of updates on obscure 80’s (and 70’s and 90’s) stars, and where they are today.

If you don’t find at least a handful of actors that make you go ‘OMG I REMEMBER THEM!’, then your childhood was definitely deprived of television (you poor thing), and you were probably doing something sick and productive like chasing butterflies or getting ‘fresh air’.

I would be embarrassed to admit how much of my childhood was spent in front of the TV, zoning out. (Dear Mom, why was that actually?) Suffice to say, these posts had me cracking up and definitely brought me back to those long childhood days back when TVs had knobs, antennas and wood-panelling.

Ain't she a beaut?

I would plant my ass down indian-style on the floor a foot in front of the TV for hours, only getting up when I had to change the channel old-school style:

Woodpanelling to match the TV- now that's classy!

You feeling me yet?

Ah, the simple days of 37 channels (a third of which didn’t work). Man that just took me ages to find that photo.  I thought the internet was finally going to fail me.  Apparently ‘old tv channel changer box thingy‘ isn’t good enough.

Do you think it’s taking up valuable space in my brain that I remember that MTV was channel 13, Nickelodeon was channel 27, and VH1 was 34?

During the beautiful New Jersey summers when the sun was bright and the grass green and fresh, HBO would be free for a few weeks, and so I could be found too often rotting indoors, sucking up repeat showings of ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space‘ and ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen‘.  Wasted youth, I tell ya.

Where was I?  Right!  Veggiemacabre’s blog!  He recently earned major brownie points by finding out what Cindel from ‘Ewoks Battle for Endor’ is up to these days (not much…except myspacing apparently).  Awesome.

So go read and laugh and remember.  And if you are from the NJ-PA tri-state area, then read this post too.  You’ll appreciate hearing the old theme song to that news program, I promise.

Tags: 80's TV stars, Ewoks Battle for Endor, nostalgia, Veggiemacabre