Being rude to me unprovoked really wakes up the menace buried deep inside. Like I choose to live my life on cutie patootie juice but it’s some four loko back here somewhere. Let’s be very clear
In 1988, at 3:00 AM, a recording engineer in Honolulu named Milan Bertosa received a call from a client who said, "I have this guy here who really wants to record something."
That "guy" was Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (known as "IZ"), a 500-pound Hawaiian musician who arrived at the studio in a taxi shortly after. Bertosa quickly set up a single microphone, and in just one take, Israel performed a medley of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" accompanied only by his ukulele.
The recording was so raw and beautiful that it eventually became a global phenomenon, appearing in countless movies and commercials.
I was born in 1961 too.
And this version of the past is a myth.
Kids did have food allergies we just didn’t have the science to name them.
I lost a brother before he was two because medicine didn’t yet understand what allergy killed him.
Trans kids didn’t “not exist.”
They hid. They were shamed. Many never survived adolescence.
Violence didn’t start with social media.
Bullying, racism, misogyny, and abuse were simply normalized and ignored.
Families didn’t stay together because things were better
they stayed together because women and children had fewer choices.
And no, it wasn’t just “Merry Christmas.”
We said Happy Holidays. Season’s Greetings. Yuletide.
Nobody lost their mind. Nobody felt threatened. We just… lived.
I rode buses and subways too
they weren’t magically safer.
We just didn’t talk about what happened on them.
What really changed wasn’t people.
It was visibility.
Data replaced denial.
Voices replaced silence.
And accountability replaced nostalgia.
The past wasn’t safer.
It was quieter because suffering had nowhere to go.
I don’t want a time machine.
I want a future where we stop confusing silence with peace.
Stop being such a boomer.
Superbad (2007) is way tighter than it gets credit for. Every joke builds character, not just laughs. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote early drafts as teenagers, which is why the awkwardness feels so specific and honest.