Articles tagged with: dear ’80s we get it love Sarah
The Movie: Tex
The Crush Object: Jim Metzler
The Story: Tex McCormick (Matt Dillon, rocking the standard-issue lank-haired butt-cut of the era) is having the customary operatic S.E.-Hinton-verse adolescence: his mother died of pneumonia when he was …
Owned the soundtrack on LP as a kid; still love the soundtrack, despite the sticky synth and the portentous Kenny Loggins; never saw Footloose before. It's a pleasant surprise. The premise is utterly contrived, and …
The Plot: A teacher with financial problems gets beaten up, and because notorious loan shark Tony Delaplant's son Hoagy (…seriously) attends the school, it's assumed that one of them is involved. Hanson is sent in …
The Plot: Hanson and Penhall go undercover in one of their habitual guises, the McQuaid brothers, for one of Jump Street's habitual drills: buy drugs in increasing quantities from a couple of middlemen in an …
Y'all raised for $300 the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Pitch In For Baseball yesterday, so as promised, I've posted my prom pictures. My date is cropped out to protect his anonymity, but he's wearing a …
1988 Sarah says, "Let's celebrate $6,481 with a styrofoam garland and a gigantic sweater!"
Sadly, I could not find any pictures dating from my freshman year; you'll just have to take my word that my school …
Little did Mabel know she would soon dress as a tomato for the amusement of strangers…
In this morning's batch of email, Classmates.com threatened me with the following information: "We have a 1987 yearbook from [my …
"Shut Up, Penhall" Count: 1 0! It's a Christmas miracle!
Nighttime at a high school whose physical plant is modeled after the Taj Mahal.A synthesizer plinks disapprovingly as a mysterious hand pink-spray-paints the phrase "Weintraub bites …
"Shut Up, Penhall" Count: 5
Accompanied by a David Coverdale-oid wailing, "YOU stole my WOOOORRRRLD," a guy takes about four days to steal a Mercury Sable under cover of night.Well, sort of.He's directly under a streetlight.Heaven …
Another one for the "I added it to my Netflix queue years ago and have no memory of why" file, I sat down to Colors expecting to have to endure it.For one thing, Sean Penn …
