Fort's Cancer Sux!!

OH NO THEY DI-INT!!!!

(Everybodys always talkin bout whos on top- dont cross our path cause youre gonna get stomped!)

NKOTB recently posted some cryptic slide show on their website indicating that a reunion may be in order. My prediction is that they'll do a greatest hits tour and bank on the 30 something contingency that still pines after them.

I found out today that a friend of mine STILL keeps 2 of the GIANT NKOTB buttons on her desk at work. (No! She wasnt in special ed!) And a bunch of my hs friends are already bouncing emails off each other about catching one of the shows. Another friend still has that nagging urge to see them after missing one of their shows at Timberwolf at KI fifteen years ago.

Im here to tell you that I was NOT, read, NOT a huge NKOTB fan. I was guilty by association, as, if you didnt want to hang out with NKOTB fans from 6th grade thru 8th grade, you might as well forget having friends at all. Despite not having a massive crush on any of them, I did make it to one concert. I went with all the Ascension girls - Jody, Emily, Terri, Melissa, Sicily to name a few. Karen Franz drove us down to Cincinnati for this 'event of a lifetime'.....yeesh.

We get to Cincinnati and KF immediately gets pulled over. Cop asks if there is beer in the car. WHAT??? Dude, we're 7th graders!!! What were the 7th graders doing in Cincinnati at that time? Anyway, we get there, we've got seats way up in the nosebleeds, and we had a big contingency of "JOEY FANS".....for those of you that remember, it was kind of like, "I have a favorite New Kid, therefore I am."

So we're basically over a quarter-mile from the stage right? And what do my friends want to do??? Spell JOE with the neon necklaces. Because Joey is going to see his name ALL THE WAY UP THERE, send his bodyguards on the 6 hour trek up to section 605 to pull us all down for some private time back stage. (I was a very cynical 12 year old even then)

I was discussing this with some friends today and I was just laughing at how long we took to get ready for that concert. All the girls had thier bangs "poofed" just right, and Im sure I was wearing some acid washed jeans with a ESPRIT t-shirt and my sagging, droopy, white trash poof struggling to make it through the night.

I remember my best friend from elementary school, Jenny Slaughter, and how she got mad at me once because I could never establish my favorite New Kid. (She was in love with Donnie) I finally broke down and said I liked Danny (You older folks, think Ringo) and she got all pissed at me because I wasnt taking the question seriously and NOBODY liked Danny. This was probably the biggest fight we ever had.

So feel free to post your favorite NKOTB memories. I never had any New Kids schwag so I dont have any digging to do.

I thought Id treat you all to some FANTASTIC NKOTB Lyrics I dug up, and let me say, I blushed a little bit!!!

LETS PLAY HOUSE

(The title says "Lets Play House" but the lyrics say something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT)

Oh babyThink its time - That you let me come inside your happy home - Show what you what a man like me can do - When you let me get next to you - Baby come and let me love you - All night - Can you imagineWhat we could do alone? - Turn off the phone - Ill teach you passion - Come inside your happy home

?????????

HANGIN TOUGH

(Everybody's favorite New Kid Song...)

Everybodys always talkin bout whos on top.(rap:) dont cross our path cause youre gonna get stomped.We aint gonna give anybody any slack.(rap:) and if you try to keep us down were gonna come right back,And you know wereHangin tough, hangin tough, hangin tough.(rap:) are you tough enough?

So? ARE YOU?????