Hope everyone's summer is going well. I know with vacations, preparation for the DMGC, and family activities, it is a tough time to get an online-newspaper out during the middle of summer. Thank you to our submitters this month. 3 big events are coming up in August... EVENT #!1 - The much anticipated Brad Savage & The Cockroach reunion concert is scheduled for Friday, August 5 in Macomb Township. It is the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the band called "Tilch", which two years later became the the Cockroaches. This is only the second time in the past 20 years that the members have all appeared on stage together. It is not to be missed. The concert is free, and you can e-mail me to get all the particulars of the event. EVENT #2 - Cadillac presents The Dan McCarty Golf Classic on Saturday, August 6. This is the 10th annual event which proceeds go to benefit the Michigan chapter of the Lupus Alliance. It promises to be a great event. If you are interested in golfing, or making a donation to Lupus, visit the DMGC webpage. EVENT #3 - The wedding of Erin McCarty & Scott Marion will take place on Saturday, August 27. The wedding is will take place at St. Mary's of Orchard Lake Shrine Chapel, and a reception following at the prestigious San Marino Club in Troy. I would like to extend all my best wishes to Scott & Erin, and hope that they share many happy years together. My final thought revolves around the fact that unexpectedly, upon turning 46 this past month, I realized that I turned into my father. All of our readers over the age of 30 hopefully will understand this. Also, if it sounds like a Jerry's World article, forgive me. -Kelly When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways ... through year 'round blizzards ... carrying their younger siblings on their backs ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time, after-school job at the local market ... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids ... about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
BUT....Now that I turned 46, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a freakin' Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet .....we wanted to know something, we had to go to the stinkin' library and look it up ourselves!!! IN THE CARD CATALOG!! We didn't have computers to do our reports on, we had Mom. Cut & Paste meant we were going to get into trouble for ruining our 1959 edition of Colliers Encyclopedia. There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter .... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way down the street to put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and flip it all up! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy schmancy Sony Play station videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died! ... JUST LIKE LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you and you couldn't see you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only 1 channel and it was called ON TV. There was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel... and there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning ... D'YA HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING!!! WE HAD TO WAIT ALL WEEK, YOU SPOILED LITTLE BASTARDS!!! We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up ... we had to use the stove ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn .. we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, you guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1975! |
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