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The big news in my life around the start of the Christmas 1991 season was the supposed ABR job that my ‘friend’ Keith was getting me. At the thought of beginning this professional work, I got my first major haircut right around the season and shed the long flowing mullet in favor of a much more subdued and reserved mullet. The other thing that I was heavily interested in at this time was Depeche Mode, the seventh of my Big Seven Bands. Read the rest of this entry »

Freshly suntanned from our trip to Myrtle Beach, I returned back home in early August and set upon my new life. It was new because Christi and I had officially ended things by this point and for the first time in nearly two and a half years, I found myself completely alone. It was difficult to get used to having ‘visiting’ time with Ashleigh, while Christi lived at home with her parents and cousin Jennifer, and began running around with a new group of friends. Nothing had felt more like a punch in the stomach than this transition. Read the rest of this entry »

The title of this posting may sound like a nightmarishly tacky variety show, but I am really referring to my initiative in both Summer of 1992 and 1997 to collect autographs from celebrities who worked in friends with Robert DeNiro. Since 1991 when I first saw Goodfellas and followed it up with Cape Fear – and then began collecting DeNiro films one by one, I have been enamored with his film career. In the early 1990’s my goal was to acquire all of his movies on Laserdisc, which at the time was costing $30 (for the cheap ones) and upward. Since then, I have shifted to DVD’s and am close to completing the entire catalog. Read the rest of this entry »