Papagallo’s was the local pizza joint hangout in high school. They had a Centipede video game and we always crowded around it in the…
“Would I Lie To You?”
The infamous high school excuse to clearly do something you didn’t want your parents to know was always “I’m going to the library”. And…
“Muscles”
Senior year of high school featured a huge dose of senioritis, a self-concocted sickness where one is completely checked out from all things school.…
“Obsession”
When the Atlantic City Casino Commission came to the Student Center of Glassboro State College to canvas for part time cage cashier jobs starting…
“Planet Rock”
Every 16 year old yearns for an escape from the humdrum life of high school classes and family boredom and this miserable gay kid…
“Twilight Zone”
It’s 1992 & Saturday night in Philly as DJ Robbie Tronco is set to unleash another bumping set of house and techno on the…
Love Theme from “St. Elmo’s Fire”
The summer of 1985 saw the film “St Elmo’s Fire” debut. The poorly written early adolescent tripe of a film was a total guilty…
“Run, Joey, Run”
The 70s were full of story songs that seemed to get wackier as the decade progressed. There was “Seasons In The Sun”, “The Night…
“Making Love Out of Nothing At All”
In the summer of 1983, I was a just a closet case, recent high school graduate, working at McDonald’s in Ocean City, NJ and…
“Stand & Deliver”
An impressionable high school junior is easily shocked by an out gay punk. His name was Chris. He was an amazing modern dancer, mesmerizing…