My alumni mag came yesterday and I made it to the "does anyone know who the hell these people are" picture...except its was on the cover this time. Not a big thing as it was not a big school but odd to see me there at a reception in my grad week, skinny and young in the back next to my then beardy pal Jamie. Nice mod narrow ties. Sweet lid in the foreground, too. What I really like is that I appear to be speaking or yawning but if you look to the right and see big Johnny at the bar he is doing the same thing. Because we are probably singing "...everybody wang chung tonight..." or something. I am not so sad for the lost youth, the years or even the unattainable thin - I am just saddened that the world never learned the message of that song:
...On the edge of oblivionAh, for the says of nuclear fear pop.
All the world is babylon
And all the love and everyone
A ship of fools sailing onAcross the nation, around the world
Everybody have fun tonight
A celebration so spread the word
Update: by strange co-incidence Ian is recalling similar things, though his undergrad was just beginning in 1985.

Comments
cm - August 19, 2005 1:53 PM
<i>we are probably singing "...everybody wang chung tonight..." </i>
Great. Now I am, too. Thanks.
Alan - August 19, 2005 2:16 PM
That is funny!!! Which bit? [I only ask as it will drive the song in deeper, deeper...]
Alan - August 19, 2005 2:19 PM
Actually, that song came out a year and a half after May 1985. Must have been Huey Lewis.
Kim - August 20, 2005 1:03 AM
Hey it looks like Prince William there on the end!
portland - August 22, 2005 4:24 PM
did the guy with the sunglasses and his preppie lover there ever get hitched? how did that turn out?
Alan - August 22, 2005 4:29 PM
I have no idea. That is the sort of 80s androgeny, dancing with myself other era thing in the picture that the kids today just don't get.