🎵Bloggin Bout My Generation🎵

Catch a dose of nostalgia as an 80's baby details the events and things that reflect a culture.

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Robocop 3, NES, 1993.

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Just as you can't go back to your youth, you won't be able to do things that you can do now in the near future. YOLO mentality

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Gotta love the 90s!

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An icon of the 90s. He was an esthetician, painter, and actor who was in more videos than anyone else in the whole video rental store. And he started from the bottom.

Porn is a career where you make money doing the ultimate pleasure. If you can shrugg off the stigma and what comes with that, you're golden. Just remember, there's no going back.

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How far down this list will you get before being reminded of a legend?

1. Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ochre

2. Let's give him a friend

3. We don't make mistakes

4. Almighty mountain

5. Beat the devil out of it

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90s kids were the last generation when the elderly looked like... the elderly. A traditional hairstyle that our grandmothers had was short and usually curly. Nowadays, women will reach their seventies and do everything they can to look younger. It didn't occur to me until more recently that if my mom didn't dye her hair, it would probably be all Grey. It would've put things into perspective because when I see my mom, I still see her like I did when I was a kid; so when she's not up to speed on things, I have to remind myself that she's old. I would expect having to explain things repeatedly about how to use new technology if she looked like a traditional grandma. I guess the boomers saw Suzanne Somers and decided: the heck with aging

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Heres a few still frames of my room back in early 97. There's an A's banner, Raiderette calendar, lava lamp, and a few rap posters. When I'd be at my grandma's house in Oakland, I'd walk to a store on E.14 where they'd have all the underground magazines and posters.

  It's funny because I didn't know about the Bay Area rap scene until I left the Bay to visit my cousin in Modesto. Him and all his friends were big fans of the culture. Towns in the 209 were probably a bigger market than most cities in the Bay. It was huge out there. I remember being in one of his friend's room, and the whole wall was covered in Bay rap posters. These weren't street guys or wannabes, just regular guys. I would hang out with them and go to their gatherings. I  was a youngin', hanging out with the big boys. It was so fun to experience older teenage life in the mid-90s.

I was holding off on posting this because I was trying to recover a group photo that captivates this post. In hindsight, having these influences early on didn't do me any good.

Rest easy, cuzn

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Sunday nights in the 90s had oldies playing on the radio. Calling in to the station to send shoutouts or dedicate songs was very common, especially in Chicano culture. On week nights, they played Slow-Jams and R&B. And of course, I had so many songs dedicated to me😎 jk.

One day, a girl and I were talking smack to each other at school. I acted like I was hurt as if she crossed the line. I said, "Don't talk to me anymore!" She looked concerned when she saw that I was hurt (😉).

Later that night, I was in the shower. I had just turned the water off. The radio was playing in the bathroom. What I heard next out of my boombox was, " this is Dayana, I just want to tell Michael that I'm sorry." The DJ ( Xavier The- X- Man) asked what happened? She responded, " We got in a fight." she begins to explain further, then stops and says," it's stupid. " I was relieved that she didn't go in detail because it really was stupid. What she said in the argument that was so bad was that famous 90s insult " yo momma"!

I never told her or anybody that I heard her call in. It was never even mentioned to me afterward, either. I didn't always listen to the radio. That's why it's weird that I heard that. I was like, wtf? She always liked me but couldn't confess it because her best friend was obsessed with me. I would like to let her know that I heard you, and it's a memory that brings a smile to my face.I think someday I'll link this to my social media pages. I imagine girls from my past look me up routinely.

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If you went to a grocery store in the mid-90s, you saw J-T-T's face all through the magazine aisle.

I would've never thought we'd seen the last of him back then. I guess he said "f#ck Hollywood"!

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90s kids were paying $8 for a haircut, then $12 in early 2000's.

Seeing $30 for a fade:

" I think I'll go home now"

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When homework became fun.

"Hi, would you like to sponsor me?"

They usually donated 1 or 2 cents a word with 100 words.

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Only the horndogs used to watch MTV's 'The Grind' ...🙋‍♂️

Look how easy it was to make a show: beach, women, and music.

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It's back to the 80s with this one. Lake Chabot in Bay Area

I have this on vhs

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In the 90s, damn near every liquor store and every 7-Eleven had an arcade or two. The clerks always had the company of the hoodlums from the area.

Sometimes there'd be a crowd just hanging out around it. I can't imagine why they took them out.

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This meme is quite accurate. Whenever there was a lookout for a crime of that nature, it was always one of those white work-vans. It must've gotten bad in the 80s because they really put an emphasis on not talking to strangers, for us 90s kids. It was one of our first lessons in life.

For the most part, hitchhiking wasn't a thing in the 90s. Proof that those teachings were understood.