20 Years Ago...

This is what I looked like....

Scary huh? 21 years young.

My friend Susan posted a photo of herself on her blog (link is on the sidebar "The Whelan's Blog") from 1984. If she can humiliate herself so can I. Hey it is my birthday. I can't go back as far as Susan did, thank god. I don't have those photos here in Italy, they are still safely hidden in my dad's house in NY. This one came into my possession last summer when I caught up with my friend Maxx. We used to work together at WLIR on Long Island. He was a Disc Jockey and I was the Music Librarian for the Program Director, Denis Macnamara. I got that "promotion" after working for free for a year answering the "Airline" - the radio station's request line. Very cool jobs indeed. Free tickets to concerts, on the guest list for all shows at the Ritz, all the free records I could lay my hands on and the privilege to shake hands with the musical artists from the 80's including, The Pet Shop Boys, A Flock of Seagulls, Bananarama, Lloyd Cole, Mick Jones from the Clash, The English Beat, The Farris Bros. from INXS, Billy Bragg and last but certainly not least, Joey Ramone from the World Famous Ramones, may he rest in peace.

One last thing, I will even admit to being on the Howard Stern show back then in the 80's. I was a huge fan and I was invited by a friend to be live on air for Howard's Christmas show in 1985. Back then he had just moved to WXRK from WNBC after he was fired for doing something obscene. What else, right? It was a blast and I never had so much fun. I have to say, on mike, Howard was a dog, just like you would think he would be, off mike, he was a perfect gentleman. Go figure. I shared the booth with Joey Ramone and some lesbian Howard always had on back then. It was an experience that I will never forget. There is a tape somewhere of that show and if you bribe Sam enough.... he might let you listen to it.

Moving on....

Six months after this photo was taken - I met my Sam. Can you see that black hair? What was I ever thinking? What on earth did Sam think? Ahh... the 80's gone but not forgotten.

Krista