POP-A-LOOZA: Faces On The Wall

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is "Faces On The Wall," my reminiscence of the posters displayed in my rooms all those decades ago.

I like stuff. A near-future blog post will take a quick photographic look at some of the pop stuff I still have, from books and records to comics, pulps, CDs, video tapes, magazines, and tchotchkes of all description. It will not be a comprehensive portrait. I don't have many posters left, but I do indeed have a lot of stuff.

I was thinking of some of the other wall hangings I had over the years. There was a cool-looking Quarter Pounder translight that had been discarded from my golden-arched place of employment. There were a few posters I'd drawn myself, including high-school comic-strip art projects starring my "creations" Hero and Agent 690: Man Of Action!, and a cartoon depiction of a pepperoni pizza with a few extra slices, which I concocted for my then-girlfriend Brenda to use in illustrating the concept of improper fractions for the pupils in her student teaching gig. Me and math...?! Oh, the humanity! Brenda was so grateful that she wound up marrying me. One and one makes two, man.

We are not defined by our stuff, but the stuff we choose--what we choose to own, what we choose to keep, what we choose to display--is obviously a big part of who we are. Doc Savage paperbacks. That Thing You Do! on Blu-ray. A WIN button. A Bay City Rollers 8-track. A decaying copy of Batman # 100. Green Hornet playing cards. A Monkees LP autographed by Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz. The framed artwork from Rhino Records' Poptopia! Power Pop Classics CDs. A Ramones clock. A baseball autographed by Mickey Mantle. An eighth-grade bowling trophy. Memories and giddy passions, preserved to remind and proclaim, all for the glory of the stuff we dig.

But for now, let's raise a glass to the idols of the past. "Faces On The Wall" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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