October 22, 2009
Man, this entry totally covers two childhood loves of mine: Halloween and Super Mario Bros. 3. I obviously love Halloween now (says the guy who started working on his costume months ago) and that was no different way back when. Okay, way back when I had my Mom make my costumes for me and, no surprise, she was way better at it than I am now. Guys, she can actually SEW. With a needle and thread. I have to use fabric glue out the wazoo. This particular year (1990) I wanted to be Super Mario. My Mom went the extra step by making me raccoon tail Super Mario. Way awesome. I can probably say that I played this video game every single day for a long stretch of time (that translates to, what, a month in the brain of a six year old?). I was obsessed. I never beat the game, of course, but gosh darnit if I didn’t get those first couple worlds down. I even knew where to find a whistle! I watched the cartoon over and over again (did I blog about that already? It’s been so long) and was obsessed with learning all the Koopa Kid names.

Man, this entry totally covers two childhood loves of mine: Halloween and Super Mario Bros. 3.

I obviously love Halloween now (says the guy who started working on his costume months ago) and that was no different way back when. Okay, way back when I had my Mom make my costumes for me and, no surprise, she was way better at it than I am now. Guys, she can actually SEW. With a needle and thread. I have to use fabric glue out the wazoo. This particular year (1990) I wanted to be Super Mario. My Mom went the extra step by making me raccoon tail Super Mario. Way awesome.

I can probably say that I played this video game every single day for a long stretch of time (that translates to, what, a month in the brain of a six year old?). I was obsessed. I never beat the game, of course, but gosh darnit if I didn’t get those first couple worlds down. I even knew where to find a whistle! I watched the cartoon over and over again (did I blog about that already? It’s been so long) and was obsessed with learning all the Koopa Kid names.