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Grown-Up Nate: Attending a Class Reunion

By Nate • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: General Sod, Wistful Nostalgia
Grown-Up Nate: Attending a Class Reunion

Please don’t laugh at the face I’m making, I was really drunk.
Lists are always fun. I’ve never been one to use them all that often, but I certainly enjoy reading them on other sites. You could say that I have gleaned a great deal of my present-day cache of useless knowledge from reading copious amounts [...]



A heartwarming converstion about Purple Pooty Wax

By admin • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
A heartwarming converstion about Purple Pooty Wax

The following is a conversation between myself and 3 old mates from college. While geographical differences keep us apart, the bond of sarcastic banter binds us… Enjoy.
Scott
Subject: What up nerds?
Just checkin in on everyone. Hope all is well for you peoples.
I heard Ethan gained like 60lbs ever since they opened up that Dunkin
Donuts next [...]



Growing Up Nate: Gimmie Stitches

By Nate • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: General Sod, Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: Gimmie Stitches

Mr. Hoff was my 8th grade science teacher. He was also my junior high football coach. He played football in college and made a point of reminding us of this at every opportunity. He was a mountain of a man. A large, notably out of shape mountain, but still a mountain. From the word “go,” [...]



Growing Up Nate: Candy Cane Children

By Nate • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: Candy Cane Children

All of my cousins on my mother’s side of the family are pretty close in age. We all, for the most part, fall within a 10-year window. This made holidays growing up a lot of fun. Sure, we had to drive up to grandma and grandpa’s house in Northern North Dakota, but we got to [...]



Growing Up Nate - Can’t Sleep, Clown Will Eat Me

By Nate • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate - Can't Sleep, Clown Will Eat Me

Let’s face it, no one really likes clowns. It’s amazing that they’re still around, haunting us, stepping on our feet with their comically over-sized shoes and exceeding the occupancy limits of compact cars in a flagrant disregard for the law. They’re shameless, soulless and, let’s face it, probably the same guys that play Santa in [...]



Growing Up Nate: Doll Parts

By Nate • Mar 28th, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: Doll Parts

We’ve all, at one time in our lives, played with dolls. We may not like to admit it, but we were curious, and it was a very confusing time in our lives, and we only did it once, and it’s not like it meant anything, anyway.
I’d be willing to bet that some of you are [...]



Growing Up Nate: Jack Frost Jumpshots

By Nate • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: Jack Frost Jumpshots

It’s March Madness once again, folks, and that means that both yesterday and today millions of men across the country are trying to wedge a few minutes of work into their busy days spent watching live streaming video of the opening round games of the NCAA Tournament. I am one of those men. Furthermore, I’m [...]



Growing Up Nate: My First Motorcycle

By Nate • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: My First Motorcycle

I grew up riding on motorcycles with my father. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on the back of his bike as we pulled out of our yard and onto the highway. So, when he bought me my first motorcycle at the tender age of 13, I was ecstatic.
He pulled into the yard [...]



Growing Up Nate: That is NOT how you bungee jump

By Nate • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: That is NOT how you bungee jump

I had just seen someone bungee jump for the first time. I was five or six and was watching ABC’s the Wide World of Sports or something. I thought it looked like a lot of fun, being able to defy death with the help of just a piece of rope, that I ran outside to [...]



Growing Up Nate: Stuck in a Hopper

By Nate • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: General Sod, Wistful Nostalgia
Growing Up Nate: Stuck in a Hopper

My little sister, Anna and I grew up on my great-grandfather’s farmstead, which meant that, until I was a teenager, we had various rotting outbuildings dotting our property, and to this very day a cavalcade of old farm implements parked here and there. In the woods behind our house, there was an old John Deere [...]