List #709: 5 Thoughts on Duluth Public Schools

List #709: 5 Thoughts on Duluth Public Schools

1. You should support taxes that help them, because they produced me

2. One of my great desires as an elementary school student was to explore the then unused portions of Lincoln Middle School

3. Nettleton Magnet School was doing STEM before stem was the new sexy edu-trend

4. A surprising number of teachers/administrators 'followed me' from Middle School to High School.

5. I liked it when they had a Gifted and Talented program.

List #690: Favorite Moments in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bogus Journey"

List #690: Favorite Moments in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bogus Journey"

1. Twister with Death

2. So-crates' and the "Days of our Lives"

3. "He also loves... Baseball" (and totally ravaging Oshman's sporting goods)

4. Station!

5. That De Nomolos is Ed Solomon, backwards

6. Rufus

7. "Iron Maiden?! Excellent!"

8. Ted "Theodore" Logan

9. "This is Officer Van Halen, down at the station. We found your keys, but if you want 'em,you're gonna have to come down and get 'em"

10. The time travel tricks

11. Billy the Kid

12. "Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K"

13. Evil Robot Us-es ("We're fully going to kill you now!")

14. "Waterloo, home of excellent water-slides"

15. "Missy... I mean Mom"

16. air guitar

17. Royal Ugly Dudes

18. Rufus

19. "Yes Way, Ted"

20. "Be Excellent to Each Other, and Party On, Dudes!" - Abraham Lincoln

List #660: 5 Book Series I Enjoyed in my Youth

List #660: 5 Book Series I Enjoyed in my Youth

1. The Baby Sitters' Club

2. The Dragonlance Books (I started with the Heroes trilogy, but my all-in-one "Chronicles" is one of the best christmas presents I ever got)

3. Encyclopedia Brown

4. The Hardy Boys

5. The Lord of the Rings (was scared by the cartoon of The Hobbit in 1st grade, so I resisted it until it was forced upon me in 5th grade. Can't imagine life not having read it)

List #659: 5 Book or Reading Related Experiences of My Youth

List #659: 5 Book or Reading Related Experiences of My Youth (6th grade or younger)

1. Being told I wasn't allowed to read under a tree during open field as a camper / being laughed at by cabinmates for wanting to read before lights out (because I said that I came to camp, in part, to relax and read)

2. Winning the Read-A-Thon for my school in 3rd or 4th grade

3. Writing and making books (with wallpaper scrap covers) in 1st and 2nd grade

4. The first book I ever read alone: "Monsters Come in Many Colors" ~Kindergarten?

5. Trying to read "The Silmarillion" as a 6th grader (and needing an extra encyclopedia/compendium to 'get it.'... still one of my favorite books. Glad I challenged myself)

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape, IIRC (West End Piedmont Wingers, AYSA Silver Division Champions U12, circa 1991)

1. Run Riot -- Def Lepard

2. Rocket -- Def Lepard

3. Kickstart My Heart -- Motley Crue (self edited for profanity)

4. Dr. Feelgood -- Motley Crue

5. something by Poison, I think.

List #583: Fake Player Names Made Up For Backyard Football

List #583: Fake Player Names Made Up For Backyard Football (which was really just throwing a nerf ball around in the snow and making up cool names for when we made good throws or catches) circa 1992

1. Saxafon von Schalooberfookenwooken

2. Emilio Capuccino Barachauga

3. Farfagnugen Volkswagen

4. Teabag Elbogreese

5. Sergio Goikache

6. Dmitri Aaorn

7. Frau Bluer

8. Chau Main

List #478: 10 Awesome Things About My Old Friend Ben

List #478: 10 Awesome Memories About My Old Friend Ben

1. He can draw very well

2. He was my friend way back in elementary school

3. We wrote a short story in elementary school that got censored in the school paper for having too many decapitations

4. He could paint Sea-Elf Paladins very well

5. He can skate, run and bike very quickly

6. We used to play a lot of D&D, but rarely by the rules

7. He got me to listen to Ministry

8. His family are very nice people

9. He had lots of lizards and spiders (and other cool toys)

10. I haven't seen him in probably 12 years [not awesome]

List #456: 7 Things about my life in '89

List #456: 7 Things about my life in 1989

1. I was in 5th Grade (my first year at Nettleton Magnet school)

2. I wore Zubaz to school the first day, was ridiculed (and then, a month later, most kids had them)

3. I went to Disney World for the First Time

4. I was a Pirate for Halloween

5. I started reading J.R.R. Tolkien and other Fantasy Novels

6. I didn't have a Brother

7. I met my friend Ben.