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| ID | Post Type | Posted By | Comment | Title | Posted On | |
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| 4715 | Article | Vaporman87 | Reading this made me think back to yours, Hoju. | Dec 15, 2018 |  | |
| 817 | Article | Vaporman87 | Reading this reminded me that I did not add a scene from this special into the Halloween Special this year. Crud. Oh well, just one to make sure to add next year! :) I think it's hard for some of these other specials to get the play they deserve, because so many people expect to be shown The Great Pumpkin, or Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, etc. Perhaps we need a cable channel that plays nothing but holiday specials and tv episodes at certain times during the year. I'd go for that. Thanks OldSchool | Garfield's Halloween Adventure | Oct 04, 2013 | |
| 5638 | Article | catsooey | Reading this was like reading about another version of myself growing up. We started out on the goofy store bought boards which left orange plastic on curbs everywhere from railsliding and very early attempts at ollies. The ollie to us was like flying - we were mesmerized by anyone who could do it and it seemed impossible. My two best friends skated with me, and one of them (Jeremy - rest in peace bro) had an older brother - Dave Schrieber - who ran the local skate camp and knew a lot of the people on the scene. He knew Jimmy Gagne and Corey Shaw who were big amateurs at the time and were about to go pro. I think Corey ended up breaking his back on a launch ramp. Anyway we had our local skate shop, The On Ramp (the larger business was called Interskate 91, which was a roller skating place, and everything was highway themed) and the day finally came when we got our first real boards. My friends got the McGill (the skull snake graphic) and (bat/dragon) Caballero, and I got a Hawk board with the Claw/Hawk graphic. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Each of us had the board of our favorite skater and we thought of ourselves as a mini bones brigade lol. We hadn’t even learned to Ollie yet. The only mistake we made was getting Toxic Shock Syndrome’s ‘Acid Rain’ wheels, which looked cool but rode like rocks. Pete and I both got them and I still regret it to this day. I should have gotten slime balls like Jeremy did, which were great wheels. I think they might have been Vomits but I can’t remember. So we learned to Ollie - I was the first to learn, but Jeremy had the cooler ultra glue foot style that I always tried to get. I used to jump so fast and so high that my board would take a second to catch up to my back foot. It would slap the bottom of my foot when I got to the peak of the Ollie. I was the only one that learned to kick flip though, and I was really proud of being able to pull that off. The Frankie Hill ‘gap’ Ollie from the ‘Propaganda’ video was huge at this time. And the Ollie impossible was new and it really did look impossible. It was a great time for us. A few years later I picked up the guitar (Jeremy was already playing) and we didn’t skate as much. But we did pick it up again for a while in high school. I was actually thinking of getting a board and skating again. It sounds nuts because I’m 43, but I think I might be able to do it. There’s now an actual skate park in my town (if it had been there when I was skating we never would have left, we would have set up little lean-to’s and camped out there so we could skate 24 hours a day!). It’s a concrete bowl, some stairs, rails etc, so if I bite it it’s going to hurt a lot more, but I think I’m gonna go for it. | Skate or Die Generation | May 17, 2022 | |
| 2163 | Article | OldSchool80s | Really enjoyed reading your story. Brought back some memories of my own! | Rec Center Memories - Moment of Glory | Mar 27, 2015 | |
| 3440 | Article | mickyarber | Really fun article, wven though I had no point of reference since I never played. I added your article to my Reading List for today at http://themidnightpost.com/the-retro-reading-list-for-03-14-16-super-mega-huge-edition/ | 20 years of Pok'emon: Looking back to the franchise as an adult | Mar 14, 2016 | |
| 1562 | Article | Hoju Koolander | Really fun ride you took us on. I loved the KISS pinball metaphor (KISS Army unite!) and the fact that reading Christmas themed comics was part of getting you in the spirit of the season puts a smile on my face. You know the Ultimate Warrior (R.I.P.) fought Santa Claus in comic book form too...it was pretty messed up. | Christmas: Alone & Kickin' It | Dec 02, 2014 | |
| 1478 | Article | echidna64 | Really good choices man! I would add House in there as well! | Benjanime's Top Ten Halloween Movie Picks | Oct 22, 2014 | |
| 5462 | Article | onipar | Really great list! It's funny, many of these were games I used to play as a kid too, and strangely (even though I own them), I haven't revisited many of them in years (like Jaws and Double Dragon). Monster Party I do pop in around October every year. | The NES Games I Remember Playing:Part 1 | Aug 07, 2021 | |
| 3186 | Article | MissM | Really nice article! I've been meaning to catch up on your articles and I have a lot of fun reading ahead of me, but this was really great. Personally my favorites are the Christmas Vacation tree and the tree from a Charlie Brown Christmas. Both really great trees and stories. I am fond of the Gremlins tree. I also remember being traumatized with the Simpsons episode where Bart burns down the tree, I just had these horror visions of catching trees on fire. This article is going to have me thinking of more Christmas trees in pop culture now. Really fun! | 5 Most Iconic Movie Christmas Trees | Dec 12, 2015 | |
| 3365 | Article | Vaporman87 | Really, my design was more about LOOKING better than the others. Maybe getting a little more creative with the materials. Not just boxes with stickers or drawings on it. | Rad Retro Valentines | Feb 15, 2016 | |
