Has Ziggy's popularity faded? Apparently not!
As I've been cleaning and "redoing" my home office/crap store, I found several shoe boxes of cards and letters from years past. It was fun to re-read some of them, but I was becoming alarmed at the number of Ziggy cards that were sent to me. I don't remember ever mentioning that I had a fondness for Ziggy when I was a kid. I counted 48 Ziggy cards that were sent to me over a 7 year time span. Frankly, that's disturbing. I thought Ziggy was dead, but a quick Google search retrieved 489,000 hits, including a site called "All Things Ziggy." Yikes.
Anyway, here's a little snippet of a card that was sent to me from my childhood friend, Krissy. It was written in 1978:
"How are you? I'm fine. A couple of days ago your folks came over for dinner. How's ballet? I HATE LIZ!!! YUCH!! What is Ashley's last name? I'm going to tell you something that you've got to promise not to tell Kim (please!). Kim gets so moody it's pitiful. Kim is crazy over John Travolta so naturally Liz is too! I put up a few posters buts thats all. Kim is in love with him! By the way here are some of the things that are in style around here. You might want to get some before you come home.
1) Loves Baby Soft Body Mist
2) A poster of Grease or Saturday Night Fever
Speaking of SNF have you seen it yet? Oh, you might want to get the Grease album too. Martha is in California using...Jenny is visting her father. Emily is back from 3 lakes camps. My hand is killing me from writing. Well I've go to go now.
Love,
Krissy
p.s. I miss you
p.s.s. I can't wait till Fri
p.s.s.s. Don't let anyone read this!
p.s.s.s.s. write back!"
posted by BibFash at 10:34 PM
3 Comments:
Ah, Krissy, that style maven.... (Remember Krissy dolls??)My friend mutilated her in some pretty disturbing/pornographic ways.
Personally, I thought Travolta was revoltin'... I also thought Shaun Cassidy was a dork...Parker Stevenson was more my speed, I guess. I even started a "Give Parker the legitimacy he deserves on the Hardy Boys" campaign at my school. Color me dorky! (Course I probably didn't use the word "legitimacy" in fifth grade...nerd or no).
Ah, BF, you bring me back...
Shatty Shat
8/28/2006
I was 8 in 1978 and so obsessed with "Grease" that I must have been a chore to be around. I didn't yet have boy crushes, but I crushed hard on Sandy and took to wearing a ribbon in my hair as I sang "Hopelessly Devoted" wrapped around the tree in our backyard.
"Grease" supplanted my other movie crush of those years, Jodie Foster in "Bugsy Malone" -- remember that movie? It was fabu. Let's have a drive in movie night and watch it -- I'll make cream puffs!
Plum
8/28/2006
I think that the statute of limitations has run out for this document. BF is probably safe.
Let's see some more notes!
Plum
8/29/2006
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