KERRY JACKSON
KERRY'S BLOG
Toy Room, Back Again.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 11:57AM
Listen to your father, sometimes!
My dad would often overreact to some of my interests, when I was a kid. He wanted me to take welding classes as something to fall back on if this radio thing didnt work. Just good common sense, and I’m an okay welder now. Dont get me wrong, he was ALWAYS and still is supportive of me. He didnt like the fact that I loved to watch Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. He worried old Fred would make me a wuss. He drove me to the Huish Theatre in Payson 36 nites in a row to see Star Wars, on the condition that I not tell Grandma Jackson. She lived through The Depression and would not understand. When dad raised concerns about Big Jim, I thought he was just being crazy. “Its bad enough the boy plays with dolls!” (They Are Action Figures, DAD!) “But THIS one steps over the line!” It was just coming to the end of the 12” GI Joe craze that was all over the nation, and Mattel wanted in on that slice of the pie. They came up with Big Jim and his friends. At the time I didnt get it, but in retrospect I think dad might have been on to something. I mean LOOK at him! Levi shorts and a vest! He’s a LUMBERJACK for crissake! Ive seen guys dressed like this at the Pride Parade. His freinds were Big Jake, Big Jeff and Big Josh! A cowboy, an alligator wrestler and a cop! They had playsets for camping! Tents, jeeps, RV’s! Barbie was a full 4 inches taller than them all, so no women in the RV!
Oh, well. Those old GI Joes were pretty butch, too. But, now that I think about it...Cobra Commander does have quite a lisp.
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- #1 Lunchbox Lady
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- Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 1:26PM
I commend you first off that you were able to save ANY of your toys from your childhood!!!
My daughter does play with my barbies that I never touched as a kid- but nothing to shout about on those......
Played catch up-
keep up the drinking recipe’s please!! THere are some of us out there who like a little mixy mixy of something different- so.....
this is YOUR page.....you put whatever the hell you want to on here!!!! Make it yours! I give you full permission by the way- if anyone cares! ((giggles))
tay, back to work I go!
- #2 fuzzybeast30
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- Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 @ 5:46PM
This totally explains my attraction to men in levi shorts and vests. Your way better that Margerate Ruth. Chris
- #3 MarcusJ
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- Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 @ 1:18AM
Did the lumberjack break that board? He’s not gay, he’s totally tough!
- #4 zekethefreak
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- Thursday, April 10th, 2008 @ 8:53AM
Kerry, Sean the Foul Mouthed Mailman, here. You’ve stirred up some very nostalgic memories for me. Big Jim, and the RV. Teamed up with my brother’s MUCH manlier GI Joe jungle set (complete with rubber snake, styrofoam cave, and lookout tower), we were set to conquer the world. But, in retrospect, I guess my Big Jim was the bigger wuss of the set. The funniest story about those toys, was when I tried shaving GI Joe’s head with my dad’s razor, and hearing him harassing my mom for shaving her legs (tough hair) with his razor. All I managed to do was give GI Joe a sick looking bald spot on the side of his head. Ah, good times…
- #5 leslie anne levine
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- Friday, April 11th, 2008 @ 3:07AM
You should take off the vest and make the shorts as short as they can be. Then you’ll have your very own nevernude doll.
- #6 jodi
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- Saturday, April 12th, 2008 @ 8:30PM
Love ya to death Kerry- but take it for what it is and realize our parents were pretty much all crazy and that we are all pretty messed up also. But you gotta admit it has been a fun ride huh? P.S. We used to go to the old Payson theatre also (I moved to Mona when I was 15 back in ‘82). Good times, not.!!
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