WHEN I WAS SHORT...!

I read a couple of neat things today that made me flashback to my childhood.

One was a blog entry by actor-turned-webmaster Wil Wheaton who spun the tale of how as a youth he once traded a Star Wars Death Star playset for a landspeeder and five bucks. It reminded me of ALL the Star Wars stuff I had when I was younger.

I could play with those things for days. And between my older brother and myself, we had about every thing a kid could want. We had X-Wing fighters, landspeeders, the Millenium Falcon, the Hoth playset, Ton-Tons, one of almost every action figure from every movie, including Boba Fett, which we had to send away for. Star Wars is still one of the only things that can bring all five of my "siblings" (Bhukets and Sribhen alike) together. It makes Thursday sort of like a holiday because I know that Taft, Amanda, Joy and Robyn WILL SEE THIS MOVIE... but not until after me :P

The other was Steve Rushin's column in Sports Illustrated about the Topps Baseball Card company. I have plenty of baseball cards from when I was younger and some from when I wasn't so young. I remember the gum that came with the cards -- seemingly pressed from the cardboard that made up the accompanying cards. Gum doesn't come with the newer cards, but there was a time that we would open those wax packs of cards and see the face of some baseball player I never heard of... then rush to the back and chew a stick of gum that held it's flavor for about 10 seconds. You never even got the gum to be "chewy"

It's good to remember this stuff now.