During my junior and senior years in high school, I was a ridiculously proud – and perhaps occasionally obnoxious – Led Zeppelin fan (see my post Live in Peace for more on this). So in the fall of 1984, as I began my senior year, I was thrilled to hear the latest MTV news that Robert […]
Archives for June 2016
Operator
I became familiar with Jim Croce at a rather young age, but I’ll readily admit this was only because our elementary school principal was named Leroy Brown, just like the main character in Jim’s #1 1973 hit, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. There was no end to the humor there. Even my fellow third graders understood […]
Muskrat Love
In the spring of 1979 I was in 6th grade. This was my final year of elementary school, and my last year of riding the bus. Being the oldest kids in school had its privileges, one of which was that my friends and I always sat in the coveted seats at the back of the […]