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OK? We were the first to use emojis, I mean, damn!

I was 29, talking to a friend in despair because my cousin, with whom I'd lived as a kid, called me at work to demand I quit my job and move back to their smaller city to care for his mother. My aunt was apparently mentally ill with BPD and had been arrested for assault. Instead… Read More

#29: "Say 'Hi daddy!'" "Hi, daddy!" "Who's goddamn white baby is that?" "This is your baby, OK, he's just light skin-ded!" IYKYK! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The actor who portrayed Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street was Will Lee. Not only was he Mr. Hooper but a character actor aside from that show who was held in high regard, and apparently one of the best acting teachers in NYC in his day. His most famous pupil is James Earl Jones.

I saw a TikTok recently where a teenage girl was going through a Sears catalog from the 70s, laughing at the fabrics and fashions. I recognized some of the clothes in the kids' section because I'd worn them. Yes, I rocked a Holly Hobbie top with denim culottes nearly 50 years ago… Read More

The part where he sits at the desk, furiously scribbling...ahhh! It guts me. He still had so much he wanted to do, and no time left.

Christopher Walken was a child and teen actor in the 1950s and 60s (billed under his real name, Ronnie Walken) before the stint in the circus. You can see him on YouTube in a very charming short film he did at 12 called "The Boy Who Saw Through", the opening credits of an early NBC… Read More

If it's been like this since the beginnings of the film industry, it was like this on Broadway and in vaudeville in the 1800s. Imagine all the stars of the screen since Lilian Gish and Mary Pickford who started on the theater circuits as kids in the 1880s-1930s, and what they must… Read More

I'm a 70s kid, so I remember when the fries were fried in 100% beef tallow. The formula changed in the 80s to 50% tallow/50% vegetable, and customers over my age at the time (16) and older at the location I worked HAAAATED them. Every so often, I'll have a "taste memory" of those… Read More

I've noticed that with the rise of streaming, kids have access to a music library today that was unheard of when I was a little girl in the 70s, and to them that old stuff is new. It's amazing (and a little strange!) to see teens wax rhapsodic on TikTok about rock bands from the 50s… Read More