"Help control the pet population, have your pet spayed or neutured"

Cats and dogs are killed by the thousands in shelters everyday. The two primary reasons for this atrocity. First, too many people are too fucking ignorant to get dogs and cats fixed. they let their pets breed and either give away or sell the puppies/kittens for profit. The other main reason is that people buy animals. Buying a dog or cat encourages people to breed these animals for profit. IF YOU BUY A DOG OR A CAT YOU ARE DIRECTLY SUPPORTING A CULTURE THAT ALLOW THESE ANIMALS TO REPRODUCE IN SUCH VAST NUMBERS THAT MILLIONS ARE KILLED EVERY YEAR. If you want to open your home to a companion animal, do the right thing, find an animal that needs a home. You can visit your local animal shelter, respond to an animal rescue website, or adopt an animal that would have ended up in a shelter. While your at it, find a NO KILL animal shelter and give them a donation.
ANIMALS ARE NOT OURS TO BUY, SELL, OR TRADE.

Hey, it's Nynuk who stole the show.

Before I could drive myself anywhere, my excursions were led by my parents. At one point that involved a Ford Ranger with a cap on the back and about a foot of carpeting and padding covering the bed. That was my home on the road. Dana (mildly famous as the bass player in Berwer or the “hot one” at 303) and I would be back there for hours on trips to my relatives in Chicago, Marquette, or Lake Isabella. I am sure we had plenty to entertain us, but the only thing I actually remember having back there is a black boom box and a few tapes.

New Kids On The Block. Hangin' Tough and the self titled debut album. I make no claims of embarrassment for being a HUGE NKOTB fan. Dana and I would listen to the two albums over and over. While Hangin' Tough was the popular favorite, I always preferred their self titled debut, which may not have actually been released until after they hit it big with the singles The Right Stuff and Hangin’ Tough from the second album. Hangin' Tough on vinyl was actually the first record I bought, together with Roxette’s Look Sharp! on cassette.

Guns N’ Roses. Appetite for Destruction and G N' R Lies. I always tried to avoid listening to these around my mother, as I thought she would get mad about the foul language, even though both my parents swore quite frequently growing up. I would always skip one side of the tape when listening to G N' R Lies, the side without Patience. I think everyone did.

We may have also been listening to a lot of Too Short at this time. It would have been Life Is...Too Short or Short Dog's in the House, although I had the edited version of the latter.

To this day, I still regard those albums my those three bands as absolute classics. Ones that withstand the test of time. From the boy band pop of the New Kids, to the one of a kind hard rock sound from Axl, Slash and company, to the stripped down bass driven beats and dirty rhymes of Too Short, this is real music.