When My brother and I were kids, we would go through the JC Penney Catalog and the Sears Catalog and vote on every page. "What is your favorite thing on this page?" It would come down to having to decide between something like the Snoopy Snow Cone Machine or Battleship (g4 hit!), the Blue Hot Wheels 1970 Chevy El Camino SS 454 or the 1972 Red Matchbox Flying Bug, The Evel Knieval's Stunt Cycle or GI Joy with the Kung Fu Grip!We also had a ritual every year that included reflecting back and remembering what idiotic things we believed about ourselves. For instance, looking at a class picture, Brandon or I would say, "Man, I thought I was so cool in fourth grade. Look at my feathered hair. How gay was that? It wasn't until we reached our twenties that we realized that every year consisted of an accumulation of folly that would only reveal itself after we were done with it.
In twenty years, I wonder how hard people will be laughing when they see pictures of the coolest people's clothing from the year 2008? What's with the furry boots, the shaggy hair, the low cut jeans. Remember parachute pants, hi-tops, moon boots... When will it end?
A recent hysterical blog post from Johnny Virgil's Fifteen Minute Lunch, most likely in response to Rolling stone's Jancee Dunn post about 1975 JC Penney Fodder, has spread to emails and has made its way into a pdf, onto Snopes, and has even morphed into a youtube posting:
From the Montgomery Ward Catalog!
