It's the Summer of 1988 - where are you and what are you doing?

[Taverner]

Me? I'm hanging out in pre-earthquake Santa Cruz, very wasted and barefoot, most likely licking my wounds from the previous nights bottle rocket war at Bonny Doon.

Either that or I'm driving my old beat up ex-cop car down Highway 9.

[name not needed]

1. swimming around in an amniotic sac

hey, you asked.

[grace0418]

7. NOW I feel old

;)

[Taverner]

11. Hey I dunno

I'm glad I experienced Summer 88 as an "out of womb" experience myself...

[grace0418]

21. I am too actually

read my account below. :)

[St. Jarvitude]

40. I'm preparing for birth

My birthday is September 24, which came right after the fall solstice in 1988.

So yeah, I was packing my stuff up + getting ready for the big trip :)

[Parche]

2. 1988

Sex, Sex, and more sex

[flamingyouth]

3. Working and going to summer school

I was working retail 40 hours a week and taking two Poli Sci classes at the UW. In my "spare" time I was going out to see bands with my fake ID (I was 19).

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. 8/8/88

I was doing Jell-O shooters at Uncle Charlies in Austin...Those were the days

[kittycat1164]

5. planning my wedding in October 88 n/t

[Huckebein the Raven]

6. Still adjusting to moving to Columbus, OH

and making new friends. Was 8 at the time.

[northamericancitizen]

18. Getting high on the white powder

and keep on managing my 30 employees.

At the end of the summer checked myself in rehab. Sept. 15 88

Never used it again.

[Lorien]

63. I was also in Columbus, OH

between semesters at art school, working as an illustrator at an advertising agency in the Short North.

[Dzimbowicz]

8. Obtaining a much needed divorce

[candy]

31. Ditto!!!!!! It was a great summer for me!

[havocmom]

9. Camping in Big Sur area, escaping from the desert heat

and smelling trees

[Cuban_Liberal]

10. Living in San Antonio.

Probably riding my bike, swimming and doing other kid stuff.

:)

[Andy_Stephenson]

37. Damn...

your just a kid.

:hi:

[Andy_Stephenson]

42. BTW...Congrats on the new

symbol next to your name.

[Indiana_Dem]

12. Married 2 years with a 7mo. old and working in a factory...

contrast with married 20 years with a 17YO and a nurse! Wow! Time flies....

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Lets see.... I was probably learning how to use the potty or something.

:shrug:

[Kire]

14. Comic Books, Comic Books, Comic Books

LIKE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE involving Marvel's mutant titles of the 1980s, a vast knowledge of the history of Marvel's mutants is necessary to understand what's happening.

The short version is this: Demons eager to extend their rule to Earth's dimension open a portal over (where else?) New York City. While the Marvel mutant teams fight back, the rest of Marvel's New York-based heroes deal with inanimate objects coming to life and other not-so-common events.

The long version is a little more complicated. The basis for this crossover was laid down in the 1983 Magik mini-series, which saw little Illyana Rasputin, sister to the X-Mens' Colossus, kidnapped by Belasco, ruler of Limbo. (Limbo is a dimension between dimensions; time has no meaning there, and the generally crummy real estate is made crummier by the hordes of demons and beasties.) She returned to Earth twice her age, having fought for her freedom by gaining control of the Soul Sword (and, hence, Limbo itself). She then joined the New Mutants as a member of the team, using her ability to travel to and from Limbo as a way to transport the team between places in the blink of an eye.

More: http://members.tripod.com/~MitchellBrown/xover/marvel_inferno.html#synopsis

[Kire]

17. Listening to Will Smith Rap about Freddy Krueger

Now I have a story that I’d like to tell
About this guy you all know he had me scared as hell
He comes to me at night after I crawl into bed
He’s burnt up like a weenie and his name is fred
He wears the same hat and sweater every single day
And even if it’s hot outside he wears it anyway
He’s home when I’m awake but he shows up when I sleep
I can’t believe that there’s a nightmare on my street

It was a saturday evening if I remember it right
And we had just gotten back off tour last night
So the gang and I thought that it would be groovey
If we summoned up the posse and done rushed the movie
I got angie
Jeff got tina
Ready rock got some girl I’d never seen in my life
That was all right because the lady was chill
Then we dipped to the theater set to ill
We saw elm street and man it was def
And everything seemed all right when we left
But when I got home and laid down to sleep
That began the nightmare, but on my street

It was burning in my room like an oven
My bed soaked with sweat
And man I was bugging
I checked the clock and it stopped at 12:30
It had melted it was so darn hot
And I was thirsty
I went downstairs to grab some juice or a coke
Flipped the tv off, and then I almost choked
When I heard this awful voice coming from behind
It said, you got my favorite letter but now you must die
Man, I ain’t even wait to see who it was
Broke inside my drawers and screamed, so long, cuz
Got halfway up the block
I calmed down and stopped screaming
Then thought, oh, I get it, I must be dreaming
I strolled back home with a grin on my grill
I think that since this is a dream I might as well get ill
I walked in the house, the big bad fresh prince
But freddy killed all that noise real quick
He grabbed me by my neck and said
Here’s what we’ll do
We gotta lotta work here, me and you
The souls of your friends you and I will claim
You’ve got the body and I’ve got the brain
I said, yo fred
I think you got me all wrong
I ain’t partners with nobody with nails that long
Look, I’ll be honest man, this team won’t work
The girls won’t be on you, fred, your face is all burnt
I patted him on the shoulder, said thanks for stopping by
Then I opened up the door and said take care guy
He got mad, drew back his arm, and slashed my shirt
I laughed at first, then thought, hold up, that hurt
It wasn’t a dream, man, this guy was for real
I said, freddy, uh, pal, there’s been an awful mistake here
No further words and then I darted upstairs
Crashed through my door then jumped on my bed
Pulled the covers up over my head
And said, oh please do something with fred
He jumped on my bed, went through the covers with his claws
Tried to get me, but my alarm went off
And then silence
It was a whole new day
I thought, huh, I wasn’t scared of him anyway
Until I noticed those rips in my sheets
And that was proof that there had been a nightmare on my street

Fp: oh man, I gotta call jeff, I gotta call jeff
Come on, come on
Come on jeff, answer
Come on, man
Jj: hello?
Fp: jeff, this is prince, man
Jeff, wake up,
Jeff, wake up
Jj: what do you want?
Fp: jeff, wake up, man,
Listen to me, jeff
Jj: it’s three o’clock in the morning, what do you want?
Fp: jeff, jeff, would you listen to me?
Listen, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep
Jj: man
Fp: jeff, listen to me, don’t go to sleep, jeff
Jj: look, I’ll talk to you tomorrow, I’m gong to bed

Ahhhhhh! ahhhhhh! (ha ha ha ha ha haaaa)

Fp: jeff! jeff! jeff! jeff! answer me, jeff!

I’m your d.j. now, princey! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa!

[aWaKeNoW]

15. I was 10 and living in Aurora, CO

probably riding my bike around the neighborhood

[HuskiesHowls]

16. Out hiking in the Superstition Mtns,

enjoying nature and wondering how old some of the trash out there was.

[solinvictus]

19. Ft. Sam Houston..

I was in training as a combat medic for that summer and much of the fall.

[grace0418]

20. That was a great summer

I had just graduated from high school and was about to get out of the hell-hole suburbs and go to college. My parents, sick of raising kids (I am the youngest of 11), let me do pretty much whatever I wanted. So I worked part-time at night in a bakery and spent the rest of the time going out to Medusa's or Photon, the only two underage places around Chicago that played the music I liked. My friends would drop me off at work afterwards and I'd pack donut orders for the morning. My boss would come in at 5 or 6 am and laugh because I was still dressed like Souixsie Souix but also covered in flour and powdered sugar. Then I'd go home, sleep until the afternoon, do some thrift shopping, make a new outfit for going out, and do it all over again.

My life before and after was full of responsibility and hard work, but for one summer I was carefree and I had a blast. Thanks for asking, you brought back a lot of memories.

[grace0418]

45. Anyone else a Medusa's person in Chicago?

Thinking about again made me wonder.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. I was attending an NEH seminar on Japanese music at

the University of Michigan.

[DODI]

23. Got married and turned the car west (from CT) and

drove as far as we could in order to get back in two weeks -- saw Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, South Dakota, Colorado, and then turned back. It was a great trip! A great summer!

[auntAgonist]

24. I'm in the USA and have just done

the most stupid thing in my life.

'88 a bad year :(

[Taverner]

25. You didn't just shred a bunch of documents

for your employer, this military guy named Ollie did you?

[MikeH]

26. Going To My 20 Year High School Reunion

I am flying from San Diego to Chicago to go back to my 20 year high school reunion in Naperville, Illinois, my first time back there since 1972.

I see some people I hadn't seen since graduating from high school, and some former teachers and friends.

I see some people who I had trouble with in high school, and don't have any problems with them now.

I drive through my old neighborhoods, and see how they have changed, in particular how the trees have grown.

Most important, I see a girl who had a crush on me in high school, but I was too shy to get to know her then. She graduated the year before I did, and I hadn't seen her since she graduated. She is married now; she and her husband are agreeable to my seeing them at their house. I spend a pleasant evening with them, and I am able to be at peace about missing out on getting to know her in high school.

[u4ic]

27. Having surgery

to correct a broken nose after a (horse) riding fall.

[ulysses]

28. lessee...summer after freshman year of college...

oh hell - working a "character building" job at a coal fired power plant in Choteau, OK.

[Left Is Write]

29. I remember the summer of '88 well. I had just turned 22.

I had a one-year-old child and was split from her father.

Videos from Def Leppard's Hysteria were all over MTV. I was living in an apartment in Burnsville, MN, with my daughter. I had started dating someone who contracted for the company I worked for. It was a bittersweet summer for a lot of reasons.

[lolly]

30. Barefoot and Pregnant

With a toddler at home. Very hot summer. Stubborn 2 year old who was giving me fits with potty training. I was H-u-u-g-e.

The toddler's off at college now. Still very stubborn.

The baby's a junior in high school.

[Mz Pip]

32. Probably

at a Little League game a soccer game or a swim meet. My guys were 11 and 9 back then and were really into the whole sports thing.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Mabus]

33. Basking in the afterglow of a Kansas NCAA Basketball Championship

and graciously not rubbing it in to my Oklahoma relatives when I went to visit my (first) nephew. I know they would have, as evidenced by some nasty phone calls at the half.

It was also the first summer after I had split with my live-in of eight years. It was the summer I met my new long-term boyfriend (who lasted six years). It was also the first time I watched fireworks from a small airplane a friend of mine owned. He took several of us up to watch the fireworks from overhead. It was cool.

I began working on the Dukakis/Bentsen campaign.

on edit: and I lived about five blocks from where I am now sitting. Hmmm. I really should get out more.

[JordanTO]

34. I was 4.

I have no memory of what I was doing.

[NightTrain]

35. I'm 22 years old, unemployed, and in my first serious relationship.

Just my luck, the relationship was with a 24-year-old virgin who was determined to save herself for marriage! Suffice it to say, I eventually got tired of having an in-grown erection, and broke up with her. She took it like the overgrown 12-year-old she was.

[FarLeftRage]

36. I'm at home recovering

from gall bladder surgery that I had in the late spring...

I'm in northern New York state and enduring a very hot and dry summer that year.

[Dastard Stepchild]

38. Spending every day at my apartment complex swimming pool.

Every day.

[benny05]

39. Looking for a Job

Had finished my master's and couldn't find one locally, so I went to conferences and applied to a top-tier b-school to get work. Otherwise, I was a parrothead one night when Jimmy Buffet came through. :party:

[McKenzie]

41. I'm at the University of Turin

School of Architecture on a week-long course. Then I spend a week in Florence gawping at Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" just after cleaning, visiting the Brunelleschi buildings and dropping bread off the Ponte Vecchio to feed the fish. Nostalgic blubber.

[eyepaddle]

43. Flipping burgers at Ember's

just having finished high school. Also thinking 'wow, I totally hate this job--maybe I should give college a shot." I tool a year of farting around, but then I did go to college, and for some f'ed up reason decided to study geology.

Can anybody tell me what the hell I was thinking?

On the plus side though, life's been one long field trip! :)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

44. That was some summer

I was living in Austin trying to juggle college, a 1 year old, a part-time job and a husband. I was so busy I swear I passed myself coming and going. :P

[Zomby Woof]

46. Cue up the CVB!

I made my first cross-country journey by car, starting in late May from Va Beach. Packed up my Toyota Corolla station wagon with my guitars and other precious few possessions.

Went horseback riding in the Rockies, and dodged the worst hail I have ever seen in Indiana.

Watched a beautiful sunset over Missoula, MT.

Arrived in Seattle early June with great times promised ahead.

It was a summer of new beginnings and discovery. Just turned 21.

[ET Awful]

47. Ft. Benning, Georgia

suffering.

:)

[stpalm]

48. heh, being born! (nt)

[JAK1941]

49. Sweltering in the heat of one of the hottest summers in Iowa . . . . . .

history and watching the drought drink the rivers, lakes and farm ponds dry as a bone.:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[SOteric]

50. Being driven around Luxor,

Egypt by a demented man who frightened Americans for a living.

[AlCzervik]

51. I turned 21 that summer so i spent much of it drinking.

I went to Cape cod every weekend, a bunch of us rented a 3 bedroom place for the summer, 12 girls sharing 1 tiny house, one of the best summers i can remember. We spent most of if the Improper Bostonian being quite inproper.

[cmf]

52. We had just moved

and I was getting ready to go into 7th grade. My family started building a house. I watched a lot of the Olympic games that summer.

[SarahB]

53. I was 16 and in love.

The young man in question was appearance-wise look a lot like Prince William does now- very smart and a bit quirky, but we fit well together. He kind of messed with my head down the road a bit, but at that time things were really nice. Overall, a nice time in my life. :D

[Carson]

54. 14 years old and just met the boy I'd spend the next 3 years dating. nt

[RetroLounge]

55. 27 yrs old and one semeter from College Graduation

Living with my soon-to-be first wife.

Working for a bank doing computer stuff.

RL

[no name no slogan]

56. Playing in a "goth" band between first and second years of college

I was playing guitar in a band this summer, in between my freshman and sophomore years of college. The band was recording its "first" release (a four-song cassette) that we were using to get gigs. I was also working for political action committee doing telemarketing/fundraising.

That August I was to play my first "real" professional gig at a club. We opened at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis (the one featured in Prince's "Purple Rain" film), where we were payed a whopping $20 for our efforts. We spent it all at the Taco Bell around the corner after the gig, after we put gas in the drummer's station wagon.

Incidentally, I still have the setlist from this gig taped to the back of the guitar I played that night. I am also currently in a band with the drummer from this same group, too.

[yardwork]

57. Summer internship half-way through graduate school

Talked my preceptor into giving me a three-day weekend to visit my folks at their rented beachhouse. The rest of the summer I spent driving, visiting some of the poorest people in the poorest communities in one of the poorest states in the country.

[Kat45]

58. Hanging out with a new boyfriend, in a rock club,

downing some beers and watching a hard rock band that I met while writing about them in a local rock magazine. Really enjoying life.

Those were the days!

[Maestro]

59. College, Denton, Texas

Probably drunk somewhere near Fry Street or at a bar called Cool Beans.

[warrens]

60. Sitting on top of my building in Brooklyn

Hot as fuck, watching John Gotti's fireworks a few blocks away, drinking ice cold beer from the Korean place across the street. And sweating.

[GalleryGod]

65. Cool! Nice work describing that.

:toast:

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

61. in my hometown, being 6.

as I recall, that involved lots of bike riding, playing in the sprinkler, and catching fireflies.

[drumwolf]

62. I'm in between freshman and sophomore years in college

living at home with my parents in Westchester County, New York for the summer, working one of two different temp jobs (first one for UPS, second one for a shoe warehouse), and seeing my first-ever punk rock shows (Butthole Surfers, Ramones and Henry Rollins).

[bobbieinok]

64. living in IA, dealing with soon-to-be-divorce and a son in college

[outraged2]

66. Middleburg VA

RIding horses and getting ready for senior year of high school.

[StaggerLee]

67. Finishing up my tour on the USS Worden (Pearl Harbor)

Getting ready for my shore duty in Alameda.

Remember: It's not just a job, it's a f*cking inconvenience.

:)

[bigwillq]

68. I was 10, playing out in the back fields with all my friends

Those back fields were my fave palce to hang out, all these little trails and hills and streams. We would play out there for hours.


Now the fields have been replaced with houses. Many, many houses.

[grace0418]

69. kick

this was a good one.