It was 40 years ago today

Happy anniversary to all who observe.

 

I hope the kids are taking care of Mr. Vernon.

But I wouldn't count on it.

 

"Demented and sad, but social."

 

40 years later, screws still fall out all the time and the world is still an imperfect place.

 

So it was two Sgt. Peppers?

How many Scaramuccis is that?

And how many Liz Trusses?

 

I was the Physics Club president. We didn't talk about physics — not very often even in physics class.

 

1, still a solid movie that I'll always watch

2, i think the movie is based on this back and forth ... ideals and dreams of youth and the unsatisfying realities of life.

 

“…you tried to commit suicide with a flare gun??”

Man I love that movie.

 

The degree to which people relate to "The Breakfast Club" seems very regional to me.

I was a senior in high school when it came out.

I have a buddy from Iowa who is about my age who says it nailed his high school experience exactly.

Me? I grew up in Southern California, and the people in "The Breakfast Club" might as well have been from the moon to me. Nothing about it even vaguely resembled my high school experience.

But "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"? That was dead-on.

 

One of those movies had Phoebe Cates. The other had Molly Ringwald.

Enough said!

 

(And I don't want to be the guy who drops in to shit on a beloved movie, but some of the messaging in that thing... The hot, interesting goth chick gets a makeover to be much blander and look more like the cheerleader so now she's acceptable to the jock, so she's happy! Yay!!)

 

I related more to....Weird Science