Friday, October 10, 2008

My inner hill-billy

So, I was driving through southern Illinois earlier in the week and saw a billboard for Black Cat fireworks. You guys remember those? Here is what I used to buy.



Anyway, the logo on the billboard looked like this.



Now, when I was a kid, I thought the screaming cat thing was the radest thing in the history of ever. I think I may have been disillusioned about my childhood however. See, I never thought that I was a cool kid. Quite the opposite actually, which may be hard to swallow considering my love of video games and cheesy Japanese movies should place me at the pinnacle of cool. So I looked at the logo that I thought was awesome when I was a kid and decided that the only thing more redneck than that would have to be if Skoal did a deal that awarded a free mullet and sleeve less button up shirt with every can of dip.

I guess what I an trying to say is, I was a redneck when I was a kid. And not the kind that was cool with it and wore Hank Williams Jr and Dukes of Hazzard shirts. But the kind that listened to Tupac in hopes of canceling out the honky... So yeah, how awesome was I?

1 comment:

Andysbethy said...

My strongest memory of fireworks is of a field across the street from my grandparents catching fire on the fourth of July and the fire trucks coming. After that I was afraid of fire crackers. Of course, I was four when that happened, so I guess I had reason to be concerned.
When did you ever have fireworks.... you lived in GA. Were you a little law breaker? Wait, don't answer that, I don't want to know. The less info, the better. I don't want to have to lie for you some day.