Back to the ’80s – ND #101

Duhnt, duhnt, duhnt, duhnt – Photo: L. Weikel

Back to the ’80s

I saw something in the sky early this evening that took me back to my law school days. Mind you, what I saw had nothing to do with law school, per se, but it did harken back to the ‘80s. To be more precise, 1980 and 1981 are probably the years I was suddenly flashing back to as I saw these clouds marching toward me.

Perhaps some of you can relate. (I don’t blame you if you don’t want to admit it.)

Look at those clouds at the top of this post. Tell me you don’t hear the subtle, droning beat (duh, duhnt, duhnt, duhnt, duhnt, duhnt, duhnt, duhnt) (progressively but relentlessly getting faster and faster) as the clouds slowly advance on us from the west.

A Long Time Ago

Forgive me. I’m apparently having a flashback to the 14 months of my married life that we had no children to whom we owed some semblance of responsibility. In other words, I’m remembering, ever-so-vaguely, a time when we would hang out with my law school friends at Rootie’s or actually an even smaller dive bar near our apartment where we would eat massive quantities of Buffalo Chicken Wings (when they were only a ‘thing’ in Buffalo), drink Labatts beer, and play – you guessed it – Space Invaders.

And damn – I have to say, Space Invaders was so. much. fun. Why? Because it was light years better than PONG. Oh my goodness. I couldn’t stand Pong. But did I play it? Of course I did!

I can still hear the sterile, electronic, “bloot, bloot, bloot” of the joyless back-and-forth game that sort of resembled a game of ping pong (hence its name) if you closed your eyes and pretended you were living in the age of The Jetsons.

If not Space Invaders, then? – Photo: L. Weikel

Where Was I?

Oh. Right. The clouds I saw tonight. Wow – what a segue, eh?

Well, if you’re still with me, perhaps you, too, can see in these clouds a resemblance to the Space Invaders of yore. It’s so weird to look at those clouds, remember the drumbeat of the relentless approach of those aliens from space, and recall the feeling that we – young adults coming of age at the dawn of the 1980s – were badass futurists mastering the cutting edge of electronic entertainment.

I’ll refrain from further comment…but just leave this here:

(T+101)