Monday, September 08, 2008

The Jonas Mother

The fact that I recently remembered that the mother of the Jonas Brothers attended my high school in Mesa, Ariz., back in the early '80s may have made me feel old, but it isn't particularly interesting or hard to imagine. (She's just a regular person, after all, and Singles Survival was an elective we both loved.) But that I could blog about it to satisfy my curiosity to confirm it -- after I couldn't find her in any of my old annuals -- and get a response WITHIN HOURS of posting my query, along with a scan of the page with her photo from the 1982 yearbook that I'm missing (turned out she was a sophomore when I was a freshman)) is another matter entirely -- it's teetering on scary slash mind-blowingly cool! I mean think about it: some guy whom I've never met happened to have that yearbook (from the only year he attended the school, which was the first year it was even open and the only year Denise went there) and happened to see my post and happened to be nice enough to scan it and send it to me. (Did I mention that he's also an ex-Wolverine?) Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion, but it was as if I had an extra "old friend" from the neighborhood I could call up and ask to borrow his annual for the afternoon. (Come on, it's crazy -- none of my actual high school friends even had it!)

Denise Miller circa 1982, and Denise Jonas today: When an outfit works for ya, stick with it!

To say that the Internet is the ultimate resource doesn't even seem to begin to describe its endless possibilities. As I began to simmer down at how neat the whole "Jonas Mother Thing" had been I came across a smart article in the Sunday Magazine this weekend that kind of touched on this very phenomenon -- I'M SO DIGITALLY CLOSE TO YOU: How News-Feed, Twitter and Other Forms of Incessant Online Contact Have Created a Brave New World of Ambient Intimacy. Oddly enough, it even includes a passage about a woman who has been weirded out by old classmates who dig up and post old school photos she didn't exactly want filtered around the Internet! Was that you, Denise? I swear I mean no harm! Naturally, I'd love to hear your stories of weird Internet happenstances and the like ...

kenneth in the (602) circa 1983 (shirt courtesy of Jeans West), and today

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

These small world stories always make me smile.

Anonymous said...

When people I haven't thought of in years contact me via Facebook or whatever it really makes me glad to be alive in this "modern age."

Anonymous said...

You were pretty darn cute.....

james said...

K you were HOTTTTTTT!!

Brent said...

It's weird seeing someone approximately my same age who was gay and hot in 1983. If we'd been in school together, been friends. Argh. I could have avoided the damned closet altogether.

DesertViking said...

At least you're not caught in Z-Cavaricci's, and you know what I mean..and you're not wearing Creapers. Damn, did I do that?

Anonymous said...

The guy on the left is the one I remember: "neck brace, neck brace, boo hoo hoo..." db