His name was Rio, and... or was it Reo?

[thez]

For whatever reason, old folks seem to like mediocre buffet cafeteria-type eateries, and so it was that we celebrated my grandfather's 75th birthday at Old Country Buffet. We had a room in the back that we shared with some sort of Jesus-loving biker gang that wore matching leather jackets, complete with crown-of-thorns-Christ on the back. They made several incomprehensible speeches and inducted a new member into their order. one of them had lost his left arm, and instead had a long, black, plastic snakeskin-patterned affair attached at the shoulder that ended in a blunted hook. All in all, interesting company.

As we began our meal, I made a joke that Tom, said grandfather, was now old enough to rent ultra-porn. What, then, did my parents get him for his birthday? Snack foods and porn, of course. He was quite pleased with the gift, though he bemoaned the lack of Viagra. They're just my family, don't ask me to explain it.


I find studying in libraries to be horribly depressing and not altogether constructive, because my mind will continuously slip away into thoughts of all the fun I could be having in said library if I didn't have to study.


On a final note, I miss "Jem": the toys and the TV show. Now, if a secret rock star super hero with a sexy purple-haired boyfriend isn't a good role model for young girls, then I don't know what is.

Comments

[spunbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Jem DVDs! :P

*hugs for all you've gone through lately* Long time no talk, I still read the journal daily though.

[thez.livejournal.com]

<3!! Same here, you run-by hugger!

Do Jem DVDs really exist? What with "My Little Ponies" and "Ewoks" already out, it seems like someone's planning on putting my whole childhood on this convenient media format. Not that I'm complaining or anything. XD

[liich.livejournal.com]

the first season (or two, i can't remember) of jem and the holograms is out in box set. here, it costs about $106 for said box set. how EVIL is that??

[caltastic]

Jem DVDs do in fact exist, up through the first half of the third season. <3

(His name was Rio Pacheco. Pachenco? Pachsomethingco.)

[lordlazarus.livejournal.com]

Oh, Old Country Buffet. Every time we visited my aunts in Pennsylvania they dragged us there.

Didn't you love how Jem and her boyfriend always seemed to be on the verge of cheting on one another? And it led to the following incident: When we were five, my friend and I were playing with her dolls, and Ken cheated on Barbie with Jem. Jem was quite the hussie.

birthday of happies?

[capuu.livejournal.com]

I miss Jem (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14436258/). If anything I want the toys back because my poor Jem cassette tapes are worn to heck, and I will buy the whole new doll for new tapes.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, Jem. I used to have to watch that to get to "Bigfoot" and "Robotix," since they were part of a bloc of shows. Secretly, I didn't mind it as much as most of my male peers did at the time...probably because I had been "interested" in girls since the first grade anyway. The ultimate irony is that teachers took this as a sign that I might be playing on my own team (as it were), when in fact I was just ultra-hetero and didn't realize it!

BTW...The Misfits would have totally kicked the Holograms collective asses in a street fight.

Matt

[spunbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Season 1 & 2 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001LJCUM/qid=1106638650/sr=8-2/ref=pd_csp_2/104-3404934-1371961?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846)

Season 3, Part 1 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002M5TP2/qid=1106638650/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-3404934-1371961?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846)