Category Archives: Yearbook
Yearbook Scrawlings part 7: Have a neat summer.
What you write when you are handed the yearbook of a person you don’t like and/or know all that well, but you don’t want to be rude.
Yearbook Scrawlings part 6: Adolescence Archetype
I was 8 when The Wonder Years first premiered on television and became an instruction manual for my teenage years. It was and remains my favorite show, and in my young mind the main character, Kevin Arnold was a glimpse … Continue reading
Yearbook Scrawlings part 5: 6th Grade Suck-Up
This is a photograph in my middle school yearbook from my 6th grade year. The two men in the picture are the Principal & Vice Principal of the school. I remember eagerly going up to each of them in the … Continue reading
Yearbook Scrawlings part 4: My Purple Nose
This is my senior picture from within my 12th grade yearbook. In my copy of this commemorative memento and every other edition I looked through, on the very tip of my nose, almost as if done on purpose, is a light … Continue reading
Yearbook Scrawlings Part 3: No Longer With Us
Both of the messages above are from my 7th grade year. From my high school class I am aware of 4 individuals who are no longer alive. Two of them penned these inscriptions (which are filled with inside jokes I … Continue reading
Yearbook Scrawlings – Part 2: Orange Gazelles
(while these inscriptions appear to be very different in tone, the one of the left is meant to be sarcastic) For my 15th birthday I had my parents buy me a pair of Adidas Gazelles in orange suede. Orange has … Continue reading
Yearbook Scrawlings – part 1: Pantsing
where I look back at my yearbook inscriptions & give unnecessary backstory & insight “I don’t know what these other freaks are writen (sic) about you because your (sic) nothin and I’m sick of you gettin me DT.” – 9th … Continue reading