I’m Not The Only One

As I was checking my email, I noticed this article on the MSN page. It’s about a girl who was obsessed with teen idols. I believe she’s around my age since all of her teen idols were all of MY teen idols. Especially her favorite teen idol – Mike Vitar (Benny from The Sandlot). He was mine, too. My mom even put a signed baseball with his name on it in my X-Mas stocking and convinced me that Santa got it from him to give me.

Anyway – reading her story was like reading my life story. She wrote countless letters to her teen idols and never heard a response back. Welcome to my life – except I did get a response from JTT (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) once. Although my dreams and wishes were crushed when I realized my best friend got the same exact letter in her mailbox a few weeks later.

My first teen idol crush was on Thomas Wilson Brown, better known as Little Russ Thompson from Honey I Shrunk the Kids. It then moved from him to Danny from New Kids on the Block, and then that led to Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Jonathan Brandis, Hanson, Five, Kevin Zegers, etc., etc.

I had posters plastered all over my walls - so much that in later years when I took them all down, my dad cussed his way through trying to patch up all the push-pin holes. That wasn’t a good day, lol.

Anyway – the article was awesome. It’s probably too long for someone who hasn’t gone through this to read, but if you’re a teenybopper at heart, read it.