You know what makes me laugh? The little legal disclaimer on YouTube that states you should only be uploading your own video content and not copyrighted things from television, movies, etc. It makes me laugh because you can find and watch almost anything, from music videos to television commercials to entire episodes of many TV shows. And for that, I say thank you. On the other hand it can lead to the sort of embarrassing confession that I feel the need to make right now.

I spent a great deal of time last night and this morning watching New Kids on the Block videos and reliving my teen years. Hey, don’t look at me like that. It’s not my fault. I blame it completely on Heather because she linked to the Step by Step video and it just kind of spiraled out of control from there as I clicked and clicked and searched for more. If you type in NKOTB over there you will get thousands and thousands of results. Scary, yet satisfying.

And as though that isn’t embarrassing enough, I also discovered that I still remember about 95% of the words to all their damn songs. Perhaps equally embarrassing was that I still took the time to notice that poor Jon Knight couldn’t dance to save his own life, always looking stiff and awkward next to the other four.

I was a hardcore fan. You would have been hard pressed to figure out what color paint I had on my walls as a teenager because my room was pretty much papered in their posters. I even had some posters of Donnie Wahlberg – my favorite of the five – on the ceiling. I had the t-shirts, jewelry, even a pillow case and I owned every tape and video that they put out. I may or may not have been a little pathetic, but I was 15 and 16 years old, what do you expect?

Luckily my kids don’t have much discriminating taste, as long as it’s music of some sort they’re generally happy so they tolerated the videos I played today.

Remind me to scan and post some of my old pictures. If you could see what I did to my hair in grade 11, you’d understand.