Blast from the Past

While on lunch break, I found the Sci-Fi channel was running back-to-back episodes of "Airwolf." My family used to watch this show in the mid-eighties and I still get a little giddie when the high tech helicopter manuvers across the screen. I did find the dialog/acting extremely horrible (yet entertaining). Does anybody else remember "Manimal?"

Mickey Mouse?

I have been keeping up with the ramblins of a good friend of mine who is obsessed with all things Disney.

I am glad that he and his family had a great time. They needed/deserved the much needed vacation from "us." It's been fairly hard to contain my snide remarks. My favorite part of these rantings have been the photos. Here's my fave!



We all looked "Goofy" in the 80's. I'm just not going to put my pictures out there for ridicule... (Hey, Todd. I hope your pics aren't copyrighted.)


I have not posted any comments to his Disney Diary. I read because I am happy for his family. My issue perhaps lies in my dislike of Mickey Mouse. Yep, I said I do not like or care for the Disney icon: Mickey Mouse. Let us travel back to the 80's because that is where my impressionable young mind was scarred...

Guess what? My family traveled to California (Land of the "Fruits & Nuts") in the mid 80's. Disney Land was on the schedule. We had a great time (no more great than Universal Studios or Sea World)! We arrived as it opened and entered the park. Soon Mickey made his appearance. So we ambled over to visit the famous mouse. We waited patiently as he posed with several other visitors and as we were nearing our turn, Mickey apparantly saw a cat. He began pushing kiddos off to make his great escape. I did not get a picture with Mickey Mouse and I have never really cared for the mouse since. However, "Fantasia" was the best nap I have ever had. Go Mickey!

"Highway to the Danger Zone"

It's a sad day in American aviation history. The "Top Gun" icon F-14 Tomcat is being retired. The fighter jet that made every boy in my class want to become a Navy pilot. I had to have my official Air Force aviator sunglasses (which were lost by a roommate in college who "borrowed" them). I, to this day, "feel the need for speed." I still remember being awstuck by the sound of two F-14's screaming overhead (after burners, baby) at National Jamboree while listening to Lee Greenwood singing "I'm Proud to be an American."

It saddens my heart to know that such an intimidating aircraft is destined to collect dust and fingerprints in a museum or even worse be abandoned in the Arizona desert were it will suffer the elements and die a slow and painful demise (drama).

So for all you "Maverick"s out there, take a moment...