Roller Skating

If you have been following the new show "America Best Dance Crew" then you can't help but be taken by Break Skate, the roller skating dance team. If you were like me and grew up in the 80s you have probably been exposed to roller skating in your life time.

My family members are avid roller skaters. In fact, all the adults go roller skating every Sunday night religiously. I go with my friends, with our leather skates with the wheels matching the shoe strings and the little puff ball on the front... don't hate.

Anyway, then back to how much fun it was to roller skate. Certain things to you remember, but nothing can compare to the feeling of rolling around a corner so fast that you feel like you are flying or racing after your friends after they almost made you fall... on purpose.

We don't do that anymore. Thanks Break Skate for single handedly bring back the roller skating (not blading) and saving all the roller skating rinks from the brink of bankruptcy. Seriously, the old skool crew would never let roller skating die. I was at the roller skating rink two weeks ago and the was an 65 year old couple skating together, a 46 year old retired figure skater in a blue wind breaker (yes she brought it back) and 78 (not kidding) gentleman with one roller blade and one roller skate on (yes he is still that skilled). Meanwhile, the rink was filled with every body from 18 year olds to 45 year olds and everything in between. We have fun.

Today's Bring It Back
Roller Skating

Rainbow and Thriller Flavored Now and Laters

The saying, "Out with the old and in with the new," is highly overated. I mean, just because it is old doesn't exclude it from being good. If the saying went out with the good and in with the new, no one would take to it. Take for instance, Rainbow and Thriller flavored Now N' Laters. If you have ever had them, you know what I mean. O MY GOODNESS. Why oh why did you have to leave? If ever there was a cause (and there are plenty) worth petitioning for that is one. How many times have you went to the store only to find your favorite product is no longer there? Are they not listening to us? We are the consumers after all.

These corporation spent millions of dollars on campaigns for what? To advertise products that we are naturally bombarded with already in the stores. Why not spend some of that cash on focus groups and test the market. Find out what we really want. Think of how much money you would save. Don't tell us what we need, listen to want we want.

Today's Bring It Back: Thriller and Rainbow Now N' Laters (with an ode to Mystery Mix). This goes out to you Farley's & Sathers