Showing posts with label high school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high school. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Honk! It Jim Carrey Birtday!

Last week Bob Dylan turned 66, and it got us to thinking about how we, in the past, had an embarassing tendency to celebrate celebrities' birthdays.

It all started with the message that is now the title of this blog. When were were probably 14ish, we made a sign that said this exact phrase, misspellings, bad grammar, & all (honestly, it was a mistake) & stood out on the main street next to our suburban neighborhood for at least an hour or so. I think we counted about 5 honks, including one from a truck that was painted to look like a cow. Of course, this was Mesquite where people in cow trucks will honk at anything. Anyway, being young and dumb (and in the case of Murgs, inexplicably smitten with Jim Carrey), we were excited by the attention and proud of our handiwork. It was a good day.

You'd think that our starry-eyed obsession with the birthday's of people we had never met would have waned, but that is not the case. It was probably Junior year or so when Murgs converted a tie-dyed t-shirt into a Sharpied tribute to the Bobster on his birthday and wore it to school. Murgs would even wear it when it wasn't his birthday & just stick a sign that said "not" in between "It's" and "Bob." It was a small gesture, but Murgs risked ridicule to do it, so Bob, if you're out there, we hope you freaking appreciate it.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Reunion 2011

It was once our dream to stage a giant game of Twister in the courtyard of the neighborhood googleplex of our teenagehood, the AMC 30 in Mesquite, TX. As our ten year reunion looms (are we really getting that old), it occurred to us that, with all our high school chums in the same place, our dream just might be realized. Then we thought, to heck with all that, Mesquite sucks! So we've changed our reunion/twister plans...

What: NMHS Class of 2001 10-Year Reunion
Where: Tokyo, Japan (much, much cooler than Mesquite)
Why: To play a giant Twister game with live commentary provided by NMHS's very own graduate, Brandon Scott-formerly-Wickersham
Who: You! BYOB

So start saving your pennies because we'll need all the financial help we can get for our relocated reunion. The giant Twister game and flying karaoke machine (hasn't been invented yet but we're hoping it will be by 2011) will cost a pretty penny in Tokyo. See you there!