I can remember the exact moment when I first heard of the New Kids on the Block. I was 13 years old and it was midsummer and Please Don't Go Girl was on MTV, back when they actually played videos. I was on the phone with my mother, but I hung up without one word of warning just before the second verse. I knew, immediately, that divided attention ( Read more... )

Fanmous (adj.) Famous for being a fan.

Although not in Funk & Wagnalls just yet, fanmous is a word whose time has come. Back in the day, I got a little taste of it--receiving fifteen or more e-mails about my website a day, being considered a "cool kid" by my group of wacky Hanson fan peers, and even getting recognized out and about, both online ( Read more... )

So after months of silence from the Hanson camp, all of a sudden we get the approximate equivalent of six years' worth of news: A tour. A CD with ticket purchase. A ridiculously unattractive, clumsy, poorly organized tour poster. A Live CD. New pictures (taken in someone's backyard, crouched by the fence, apparently). And a webchat and new video ( Read more... )

When I was in college, I did a huge research paper on Charlotte Bronte. It was just another blip on the scholastic radar--six years later, I have absolutely no idea what it was about or what kind of grade it got ( Read more... )

I saw a girl wearing a Hanson tee-shirt yesterday, walking past my car in the Shaws parking lot in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. It was a simple, oldschool shirt, rust red with orange MON lettering on the chest, and it made me so simultaneously happy and sad that I almost exploded. I wanted to get out of the car, walk up to the girl, and say hello ( Read more... )

I am a fanfic whore, all over again ( Read more... )

• Every single weekday morning for the past five years, I've stopped at Maplefield's to get a cup of coffee on my way to work. My particular mix of gas station brew is both time-honored and exact: 2/4 french vanilla, 1/4 decaf french vanilla, and 1/4 southern pecan, with lots of skim milk and three Splendas thrown in for good measure. Two or three ( Read more... )