Purple Rain - first tape I bought. Used my paper route money for the week to get this and wore that cassette out.
Mad Magazine / Cracked - I did try and launch a magazine of my own own, WACKO, a year earlier but funding fell through (okay, it was too much work)
dirt bikes - Got into mini-bikes, dirt bikes and saved my dough from doing 3 paper routes for over a year to pay for most of a '83 Honda XR-80 (my folks, bless their hearts set up a "payment plan" for the balance which I never really paid off)
Jonzun Crew - wikkiwikkiwikkiwikki
break dancing - my nom de plume was DR. FREEZE. i was pretty awful at it, but my brother was pretty good and could do windmills. I tried to concentrate on the less-physically-demanding Poppin'. I could do the worm, though!
Transformers - These were hot shit. My mom was actually in one of those small store riots when these were released near christmas. She got to the unopened case before anyone else and was tossing them to other screaming shoppers. She left me a note the next day saying that she got me two "Deceptions". I was kind of embarrassed at the spelling error but super psyched. my Mom rules.
Ninja - There was that show The Master on tv and a slew of ninja movies so I got on board quick with this. I ordered some of these "smoke bombs" from a ninja magazine, and instead of being the type wherein you could disappear in a cloud of smoke (like on The Master), they were instead those little paper "snappers" that you sometimes get at joke shops. I wasn't allowed to have Shuriken (throwing stars) or chucks (although I did fashion my own from an old broom handle) but I DID get this one stick weapon once at a local establishment called NINJA WORLD. It pretty much was like a police billy club, with the handle perpendicular to the main part. I think it may have just been a repainted portion of an old chair, now that I think about it.
