Mike’s Musings - My Summer Fetish

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I'm sorry.
I just have a thing with the summertime.
I truly believe it's magical.

Here's a rundown of some of the magical things that have happened during the summers of my life. (Note: summer's 80 through 92 were all exactly the same - Def Leppard and family vacations.)

1993
-lit a lot of grass fires
-hello pubic hair

1994
-more grass fires (we called them "nasties")
-listened to 'Sabotage' like a billion times
-hello drugs

1995
-last summer before High School
-our little neighborhood plays host to an orgiastic landslide of underage drinking and sexy makeout parties
-two arrests (shoplifting and window smashing)
-I had long ass blonde hair

1996
-hello driver's licence
-the nightly Police patrols that were instated because of last summer's rampant hooliganism force us to build cabins in the woods. people come from all around. The’Age of Cabins’ has begun
-our little group finally gets a proper name, (CVT - Cantley Village Threat), bestowed upon us by the right honorable Dale Fahey
-smoked hash everyday

1997
-don't remember much
-Johnny had a convertible
-I think we went swimming
-wrecked the Accord (looking at babes, not road)

1998
-hello having a job
-Hello Nasty
-sit on a stoop on Bentic Street every night and drink
-also the summer that "drinking" finally matured into "full-on alcoholism"

1999
-my last summer as a cigarette smoker
-lake and field parties abound

2000
-spent about half my summer taking acid
-got kicked out of the community of Baddeck
-Johnny and I go see the Foo Fighters
-I move to Halifax

2001
-I operate a hot dog stand on Skin Garden Road
-I burn the bejesus out of my hand
-I learn of Daryl's fear of spores

2002
-again with the hot dogs
-regular plow sessions with a hot but insane wine-blooded redhead who happens to have a large, angry-type boyfriend

2003
-we live in a mansion
-we destroy mansion by having massive 80 to 100 people parties with live bands in the living room every other weekend
-lawsuits ensue
-survived the Evolve festival somehow

2004
-took a train across the country with Kathryn
-grew a beard
-saw Slayer, got Slayer'd
-watched two bisexual strippers fuck each other for money
-still drinking

2005
-hey Meredith, you should have a party