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The year God made me
This is the cover of my 1980 diary, from which we gather that the fourteen-to-fifteen year old me was into: the punk rock group 999, the Elephant Man, Marilyn Monroe (or at least the iconic image thereof), Gene Hackman, the Undertones and the NCFE Film Society. I reproduce it here simply because I am writing a diary again in 2006. It just happens not to have a collage on the cover. After a false start in 1972, I began writing diaries in earnest in 1973 and continued pretty much until 1993, which I wrote on my old Apple Mac Classic II and thus can no longer access, as I password-protected it and wrote it in WordPerfect. If nothing else, these diaries give a vivid picture of what I watched on television between the ages of seven and twenty seven.
To keep up the tradition: last night, I watched ER. I know I should just let it go, but I can't. They are so stuck for stories now they've put Abby and Luka back in bed together ("Do you still like ketchup on your eggs?") and crashed a plane on Chicago so that Neela could save a child from a burning building whilst on ambulance duty. We've been here before. However, they haven't lost the old magic completely. A patient whose heart had stopped was being kept alive by Pratt and Ray physically thumping his chest so that his family could be gathered around him to say their last goodbyes. I had something in my eye, I don't mind telling you.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 4:58 PM
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How did you get a picture of Alex Turner in 1980? He wasn't even born then! At any rate it's good to see the blog back
Love that Dymotape'd name. Did you deliberately drop "Andy" for "Andrew" at some point? Are you still Andy to your nearest & dearest? Yours curiously, Ed (previously Eddie)
Ed, I adopted Andy in 1978 when I started upper school. I dropped it in 1986 when I wanted to appear mature again. So yes, some of my family and old college friends still call me Andy. I don't much like it, but I started it.
andrew
re: wordperfect and old diaries
have you
a) forgotten the password?
b) cant get the files off?
c) no copy of wordperfect?d) ditched it completely?
i have a copy of v1.05 for mac (approx 1990) and it runs fine in 'classic mode' on my new mac...
James, I have no Word Perfect application on my Mac. I haven't had one since the Mac Classic II those documents were written on. I have the files, but they won't open. (If you open them in another Word application, they're just hieroglyphics.) Perhaps I am not destined to ever read the entries again. I can live with that.
http://www.lostpassword.com/wordperfect.htm
More to the point can we see what you had to say in your 1980 diary? I for one am interested...
It's extracted, at great length, in my book, Where Did It All Go Right?
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