Flashback: February 1987

During this month 20 years ago, events in the Iran-Contra affair started picking up steam in terms of public exposure as the Tower Commission released its investigative report.

Other notable historical events which occurred in February 2007 include:

• British Airways becoming privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange
• The first supernova observable by the human naked eye since 1604 appeared
• Two Unabomber bombs explode in Salt Lake City, Utah within days of each other
• The new constitution of the Philippines goes into effect
  

Mulletmania circa 1987

Yup, the mullet was certainly very popular in the 1980's, and there was no shortage of such haircuts among the guys in North High's Class of '87.

Here's a short list of fellas who sported the "business up front, party in the back" coif for their senior yearbook pictures:

James Gideon
Yuchiro Mimura
Ted Okuno
Anthony Perez
David Perez
Ambrose Quintanilla
Reinier Ryke
Michael Scott
Neil Wada

你好!

Whether or not it was by accident, "hello" to the person in Beijing, China who stopped by for a glance at the blog.

Lawyer Up

Not real sure if this is the same Ty Kehoe from North's Class of '87, but it looks like it might be, especially since he notes that he was born in 1969 (the year that almost all of the Class of '87 was born).

In Case of Emergency

A new ABC sitcom about some 1987 high school graduates 20 years later. The only problem with the show is that the fake high school most of these characters graduated from has the words "west" and "south" in its' name. Ah, well.

There Were More Watts in a Lightbulb

If memory serves me, North's radio station, KNHS, had only 10 watts of broadcasting power. So basically, there was no way to pick it up on the radio unless you were standing with a handheld right outside of the studio.

Although this entry in Wikipedia notes that KNHS went defunct in 1991, regular broadcasts had pretty much stopped well before then.

Top 10 Fave Female Vocalist

Like the favorite male singers list posted earlier, some of the female singers listed here are real head scratchers. Stacy Q. and Samantha Fox had, what, one hit song each?

10. Anita Baker
9. Cyndi Lauper
8. Lita Ford
7. Belinda Carlisle
6. Samantha Fox
5. Amy Grant
4. Stacy Q.
3. Madonna, errr, Esther, errr, Madonna (I ♥ Kabbalah!)
2. Whitney "Hell to the no!" Houston
1. Janet "Wardrobe Malfunction" Jackson