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Summer Megaparty: Summer, 1992!

Remembering my foolproof loophole of not needing to add new content to the blog when I post a regular X-E article, I'm here to tell you that I'm only here to tell you something.


I came across a collage I drew and colored in 1992, evidently encapsulating all that was holy about that year's summer vacation. In this article, I break down the contents of said collage and figure out why each element meant enough to me to be worth drawing.

After spending over a month writing about whatever, the Summer Megaparty finally gets summery. Only, I guess it's not the Summer Megaparty getting summery, since this is a "regular" article. Ah...well, something's getting summery.

Posted by Matt on 07/25/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 130 comments

Back from my self-imposed Harry Potter exile. I finished the book yesterday.
Now, do I go back and really catch up on all of the X-E I missed or just let it go???

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 07/25/2007 7:25 PM

Let it go. Yes, you read that right. This is coming from me.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/25/2007 8:53 PM

Nice post Matt… have to give kudos since I was 16 in 92 and don’t remember it. I’m with the group that doesn’t remember 2 summers ago.

Squee… finished the book.. posted on your site.. my life can now move on from HP mania… NEXT!

Chestnuts roasted by Primus @ 07/25/2007 9:28 PM

oh hey Magic, if you liked that youtube, check out this one of Soundwave running for student council

Chestnuts roasted by Primus @ 07/25/2007 9:31 PM

Hey, I saw that one too when I was exploring last night. That vid is also hilarious. The only detracting factor was that Soundwave was so short. I can’t take him seriously when it looks like Tom Cruise in a Halloween costume. Thanks though.

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toy @ 07/25/2007 9:56 PM

I was in a Harry Potter daze until just today, really. The daze lasts for 2 days after the ending of the book…slowly you find other people to talk to, and this helps. I can’t wait for all my friends to be done.

Summer of ’92 was also one I spent at CAMP. Every kids should go to camp, even if its a shitty charity camp located 30 minutes from home and only a half-kilometer away from the highway! Camp is fundamental to a complete childhood. :)

Maybe that’s why I was a camp counselor for awhile. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/25/2007 10:06 PM

Come to think of it, Muppet Baby, I probably went to camp that year to. Except mine was in New Mexico (near Ruidoso, actually), so it was several hours away from home. Place was called Fort Lone Tree. It was a Christian based camp, but we still did all the cool stuff like horseback riding, archery, and riflery.

Man, I really miss being a kid. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/25/2007 10:47 PM

The cat! do you have any REAL pictures of it? i think it would be neat to see. Have you tried this pepsi max stuff? it has me wired tonight.

Chestnuts roasted by ben @ 07/25/2007 10:49 PM

I don’t remember my summer of ’92 but I was 10 then. That was when I got a brand new bike, a black huffy boys bike. 10 gear, pretty good bike. Still have it but it’s beat to shit lol. My best friend was about 8 or 9 and was a boy he lived a house down from me. We went around playing cops and robbers which mostly was just biking around yelling at each other. He let me fondle his boys toys like ninja turtles, and we played NES games. He came over everyday knocking on my door saying “can you come over to play?” it got annoying actually and during the school year I told him I had homework, I was in a more advanced grade so he just had to have the benefit of the doubt. But also when I was 10 my best friend from kindergarten that lived the other way up the street moved away.

Her dad was an abusive alcoholic and her mom finally left him and moved. It didn’t feel as bad as it sounds because she very rudely showed me she didn’t want to be my friend anymore it was mostly because she was moving up the popular ladder and wanted to leave me behind. I remember going over to her house to ask her if she could stay the night, she was having a slumber party with other girls over, her mom informed me she was busy and to come over the next weekend. I did and I think she came over. So I was basically her plan b if she had no plans for the weekend I guess. I have a cassette tape of us talking and screwing around also very 80′s type of music taped off the radio. Michael Bolton anybody?

Anyway a secret between me and you guys I honestly felt now reflecting back I am like 98 percent sure I had a crush on that girl even at 10. Wayyy before I figured out my sexual orientation. I just put her on a pedistol like everything she did was really perfect I loved watching her lip sync to the radio and stuff like that. I loved her handwriting too and I have a diary she wrote in. Sorry to ramble I was just trying to describe everything.

Probably my best summer was ’89 my grandparents took my sisters and I on a 6 week trip to Europe. I’ll talk about that some other time ok kiddies?

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 07/25/2007 11:11 PM

Mars: Oh right… I knew it was a bet over the Blue Jay’s world series victory, and it had to be either 92 or 93…

Primus: That. Was. Awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by DocDragon @ 07/25/2007 11:50 PM

Your handwriting then was better than my handwriting now, and that depresses me to no end.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 07/26/2007 1:56 AM

All I have to say is that was a truly great article Matt.

…and now to leave the fun behind, and get some sleep for school in a few hours.

Chestnuts roasted by Tutsuro @ 07/26/2007 3:12 AM

awesome article! probably one of the best in a while..

i remember trying to make some vhs movies as well, mostly with gi joe toys, and then later some weird stuff when twin peaks came out, i think i ended up mostly just filming my dog tho

summer of 92 i think i mostly remember staying up late nights, and my best friend somehow making his way into my house everyday and waking me up around noon.. we’d record tapes on my boombox playing my casio keyboard to sound like an organ to sound like funeral commercials and such, saying weird things like “coffins, funerals and free puppets for the kids..” then prank calling people & playing the commercials for their answering machines.. dunno, lots of time on our hands

Chestnuts roasted by dallasmovie @ 07/26/2007 3:58 AM

OK, I just finished watching Fincher’s Zodiac and would give it a very solid “thumbs up”. Go grab a copy, if you already haven’t, and give it a look over the weekend.

As long as you know it is based on a true story and due to that the ending may be a bit, well, anticlimactic, I could not recommend it highly enough.

True crime buffs will LOVE this.

However… a warning… don’t buy the copy on store shelves now. The Director’s Cut, coming in 2008, will be the copy worth owning. Rent it.

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toy @ 07/26/2007 4:01 AM

Magic Toy: Man, every time you say Zodiac, I think I’ve finally found someone else who has read the Neal Stephenson novel by the same name. Stop playing with my emotions!

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 07/26/2007 7:17 AM

I don’t think anyone has mentioned the fact that Matt looks absolutely insane in the drawing of himself recieving the mail! Look at those eyes! And he’s drooling!

Although I do the exact same thing now, and my face actually looks like that 24/7

Chestnuts roasted by flabslapper @ 07/26/2007 8:29 AM

Is today the day we get to see Kong and the bumble?

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 07/26/2007 8:33 AM

I actually just got back from the now infamous Bristol Plaza. This place has not changed one bit in 25 years. Well, actually im lying. The arcade is LOOOOOOOONG gone.
We (my friends) try to go to wildwood at least once every summer and party the hell out of our hotel rooms.
Wildwood is still the best, and I feel sorry for everyone who did not grow up on the Supercade, Draculas’s castle, keystone cops and Paul’s Fries.
Going back in a few weeks and staying at the Bal Harbour…..

Chestnuts roasted by Boner Jams 03' @ 07/26/2007 9:07 AM

Nice article Matt. It’d be cool if others documented their summers in drawings the way you did in ’92….like maybe Lindsay Lohan, OJ, or The president.

Chestnuts roasted by Lammy742 @ 07/26/2007 9:49 AM

I actually stopped to think about what I did with the summer of ’92.

Turns out I was 16 years old, working at Hardees, secretly pining after my best friends boyfriend. Ah the memories. So glad I got to dig them up again.

Even though I did end up dating him a few months later, when I won him over the two other girls in our “love square.” It’s a triangle if it’s three people, so it’s a square if it’s four, right? Then we broke up because I wouldnt put out.

Maybe I SHOULD draw the summer of ’92.

Chestnuts roasted by MaryJane @ 07/26/2007 9:56 AM

Boner Jams ’03. Epic fuckwin. Paul Rudd, ftw.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/26/2007 10:11 AM

“[i]Then we broke up because I wouldnt put out.[/i]”

Pfft… Girls these days with all their morals and self respect. :p

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 07/26/2007 10:12 AM

MaryJane: Square seems too neat and tidy. “love quadrangle” would probably be best representative, but for the sound of the thing, I’m going to have to vote for “love rhombus.”

In other news, I’ve just discovered a terrific name for a band.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 07/26/2007 10:12 AM

Pardon my incorrect tab format. You get the idea though.

Chestnuts roasted by fistpittingnork @ 07/26/2007 10:13 AM

Aw, Lori, you should give The Soup a try, it’s really a great show.

Actually, I do enjoy The Soup. It’s hard for me to catch it because I’m never in front of the TV when it originally airs and they seem to stick the reruns wherever there’s a hole in the schedule, so it’s always luck if I ever watch it. When I was 13/14, E! was all I watched. I remember watching E! News when they actually treated it like a news program. That’s hard for me to even fathom now. Actually, it’s not, because with all the Lindsay Lohan/Britney Spears/Paris Hilton coverage, today’s “real” news programs are actually a lot like the old E! News Daily.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 07/26/2007 11:53 AM

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