Smacksy Sunday Links

Sometimes your friend cleans out a closet and you get to see some choices you made in 1992.

I have lived over half my life

Dear Kids

35 Reasons people take medication for their mental health

What it's like to live inside a legendary Paris bookstore

And a baby goat in a sweatshirt.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Saturday Photo: 5 Years Ago Today

This guy.

Sick and Everything

"Sometimes when you're sick and you're coughing a lot, your mom makes you sleep sitting up in the big chair in the living room because she says you'll cough less. And then your dog will come and lay by your chair because he goes where you go and looks out for you. Then your mom will think that you and your dog are cute and stuff so she'll sneak in and take a picture of you in the dark while you're even sleeping but the flash doesn't wake you up because you're sick and everything."

September

Rest in Peace, Maurice White

Mr. Rosenberg and I met on the 21st night of September in 2004, so the Earth, Wind and Fire song "September" has long been special to us. We danced to it at our vow renewal last summer and it brought everyone onto the dance floor. Thank you, Maurice White, for creating music that made people happy.

Do you remember the
21st night of September?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away...

History Lessons

"Mom? You know that awesome song "The Final Countdown" by the band Europe?"

"No. Is it new?"

"No, I think it's really old. Dad showed it to me on Youtube. Watch."

"This is definitely not my thing, Bob. I wasn't much into hair bands in the 80s. If you are, there are a lot of light-metal hair songs better than this."

"Like what?"

"How about this?"

"Who's that?"

"Billy Idol."

"Is he dead now?"

"No."

"Are you sure? He seems like someone who would maybe have a drug problem."

"And yet, he lives."

"He looks like he's wearing a ripped up vest version of the Michael Jackson "Thriller" jacket. Look at his lip! Look at him punching the air! This is way better than the countdown song. It blows the countdown song out of the... out of the..."

"Water?"

"No. The ocean. The whole ocean."

Settled

"Hey, Desmond. Remember in first grade when you said you had a magic leaf that could control the world?"

"I never said that, Bob."

"Yes you did. Do you remember that Felix?"

"I don't think I was there for that."

"I never said it."

"Yes you did."

"Did not."

"You did."

"Did not."

"Wait, you guys? I think there's only one way to solve this. Let's see who can make the best motorcycle noise."

Bob's Flu Day: I Don't Know How Many Days Anymore

"Mom, since I have to sleep sitting up on the couch because of my cough, is it weird for you to sleep on the floor by me in the living room?"

"No. It's in case you throw up again... When you were a baby and you were sick, we didn't have a small mattress so I slept next to your crib on the floor on a dog bed."

"That's sad."

"It's not sad. It's inventiveness and love and responsibility. And it was sort of a big dog bed."

"Mom, come on. It's sad. Do you think a regular person would do that?"

"I am a regular person."

"Oh, Mom."