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I hope that 1991 was good to you; it was good to me. It's time again to back at the past year. Did all of this happen in one year?.. All the hostages were freed... Athletes and movie stars continued to make disgusting amounts of money. A mediocre catcher can make 5 million a year. If you are/were/hope-to-be lucky enough to make $50K a year, it will take you 100 years to make $5 mill... Camden burned, but doesn't look much different... Charles Barkley denounced his autobiography as inaccurate. It must be hard to misquote yourself... City Council will never be the same (let's hope); Jim Tayoon was finally arrested; Joe Coleman retired, Franny Rafferty got the boot, and Lucien Blackwell somehow made it into Congress... former Child Stars kept the court system backed up, including Danny Partridge who got fired from WEGL, beat up a transvestite prostitute and then got his job back... Frank Rizzo shocked everybody by dropping dead... Pee Wee Herman got arrested and made page six news. Four days later it was page one news. And I thought movie theater floors were sticky from soda. Silly me... GM rolled out it's Saturn division, a true class act. A great reason to buy American... Gorby lost power twice... Tammy Faye Bakker was strangely quiet... baseball hats... Harris Walford's surprise landslide over Dick Thornberg... parts of Eastern Europe and Africa, both places were nearly everybody has the same skin color, were torn by racially motivated civil wars... I got off-street parking... Jimmy Swaggart was caught with yet another prostitute... John Heinz became ketchup... a local White Castle opened... the Vine Street expressway fulfilled all of its promises... Liz Taylor's scheming succeeded in making her ninth marriage into a media circus. That should help perfume sales... one of my co-employees was shot dead and two others were injured on a busy street in broad daylight by a person with a documented history of mental illness. He had legally purchased the gun a few days before the incident. Remember that waiting periods and background checks infringe on the rights of the mentally unstable to kill people... Luke Perry, age 28, and Jason Priestly, age 26, were on the cover of People Magazine as "America's Hottest Teens"... yellow ribbons everywhere. Tony Orlando even made a tiny comeback... Magic Johnson named himself the "spokesperson for the AIDS virus"... Joanie Greggains disappeared without a word... Michael Jackson spent five minutes playing with his crotch on national television. I guess Madonna will have to grab hers for ten minutes next year to top it... Michael Landon was pronounced dead at 6:19 pm. His hair was pronounced dead about four hours later... Rick Dees crashed and burned on ABC, surprise, surprise... Robert Young tried to off himself. Afterwards he said that he was getting too much caffeine lately... Sadly for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, homeboy Walter Annenberg decided to give his fantastic collection of Impressionist paintings to the Met in NYC... "Eat it"... Sam Katz was accused of betraying the Republican party by agreeing to help Ed Rendel try to save the city... 1991's Most Nauseating Couples: Keifer Sutherland & Julia Roberts, Keifer & the stripper, Julia & Jason Patric, Ted Turner & Jane Fonda, Donald Trump & Marla Maples... The Reagan Presidential Library opened. There are no president papers, only presidential index cards... the Baltics went free... The Mother of All of Wars... CNN reporting that there was nothing to report... Twin Peaks was sent to the Black Lodge. Luckily North Exposure helped ease the pain... white collar layoffs by the hundreds of thousands... over-exposure of the Judge Thomas hearings and the William Kennedy Smith case... the Blue Route opened... Wilson Goode announced plans for his post-mayoral career. He is forming a consulting company targeted at city governments. It might work. They could hire him and do the opposite of what he tells them...
...and most importantly I got married. As always, I pleasantly surprised at what can be packed into a mere 365 days. Life may be short in years, but it can be long in days. I hope everybody has a happy and full 1992. Here some things to look forward to in '92... Toons from Hell : Volume 4 (early winter) and Volume 5 (late spring)... possible peace in the Middle East?.. David Letterman on ABC?.. John Mellencamp's directorial debut... I will be trying to spot George Bush in the Franklin Mills Mall... the Dennis Miller talkshow, weekdays on channel 57 at 11:30 pm... a new mayor and some bright new faces in City Council... the reopening of City Hall Tower... new or is it old Phillies uniforms... the official death of the Soviet Union... the opening of the Mike Scotese CPA & Company personal tax service... the 1992 Presidential race... the Camden Aquarium... my resolution for 1992 -Buy American... the Disunited States of Europe... and the sure to be entertaining Arlen Spector v. Stephen Friend race for the US Senate.
The Mrs. and I wish you a happy and relaxing holiday, and a fun and fulfilling year.
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Last updated on 18 January 1998.
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