I used to enjoy writing poems and short stories when I was
younger. They weren’t that good but it was fun. A few of the stories have my
stuffed animal friends and famous people like Frank Perdue and Chef Martin Yan
as characters.
Poochie Weiner
(bear), Seamore Otter, and Cinnamon Koala were the ones that were always in
them. I still have them and some others in a storage tote. I wish that I had
kept most of these.
Those 3 animals
also had their own radio station- WPW; I had such a weird imagination and still
sort of do.
I didn’t have that
many records but I used them, a couple of my Dad’s classical music tapes and
some 8 tracks for that. We had this big stereo- I can see it in my head but
just can’t describe it well- AM-FM, record, and 8 track players.
I remember every 8
track that we had- The Village People, Engelbert Humperdinck (Grandma next door
said that he’s good looking and she saw him in concert), Shenandoah and Oklahoma
soundtracks, K-tel- Soundwaves (from
Cindy), Doris Day’s Greatest Hits,
Dolly Parton- Heartbreaker, one with
CB related songs (from Ed), 2 Christmas Compilations and John Denver and the Muppets Christmas.
Dad put an 8 track
player in our Chevy Malibu wagon. I remember that time when we were pulling out
of the Bradlees parking lot in the early 80s and the back door opened and I
nearly fell out of the car. This was such a scary experience which naturally is
so vivid in my mind. Why can’t the good times be this way too?
I only had about
ten 45s in the 1980s- “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”, ” Hungry Like the Wolf”,
“Gloria”,” Mickey”,” Down Under”, “Shadows of the Night”,” Africa”,” Goody Two
Shoes”, ” On The Wings of Love”, and ”
True”.
I got some other
45s in the early 90s at flea markets. I eventually got rid of many of them and
my other records. I’m glad that I kept most of the DD stuff; the” Rio” and”
HLTW” 45s got damaged by the heat when I was trying to sell them at flea
markets.
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