You're Only As Cool as The Stuff in Your Teenage Bedroom
Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 09:08PM 
Remember what your bedroom in your parent's house used to look like? I mostly forgot until I found this picture in my brother's apartment. That's 18-year old Patrick willing himself to look older in front of a blue canvas for what will eventually be his first fake ID. What's amazing in this picture is not me; it's literally everything else. Here's some of the highlights:
- Sweet, sweet comics.
- Two Beanie Babies humping, I guess.
- Mix tapes.
- That's a condom.
- A beer I totally drank!
- "Go" on VHS stolen from Easy Video.
- Incense.
- A glow-in-the-dark Phish frisbee.
I was a big follower of the TGI Fridays School of Interior Design, which stipulates all items in your possession need to be put on display by any means necessary. Nail it to the wall if you have to (Phish frisbee). I had conveniently forgotten all of that, but I remember always being really proud of my bedroom. I'm also really happy I found this because now it's totally my new ID. Doormen yield to coolness first and foremost.
Reader Comments (3)
you totally placed that condom there. Don't lie. Its like everything that could remotely be considered cool when you're eighteen somehow magically ended up on one shelf so one day in your distant 20's you could use this picture in a blog to prove how cool you were. Also, that doesn't even look like you. I'm not even totally convinced.
That beats my Batman Animated Adventures poster, my Come Home Flubbo Tshirt (a product of the Come Home Flubbo Tshirt Design Company) and Tshirt of Wallace & Grommit. Definitely no condoms in sight in my room.
My teenage bedroom had candles, tarot cards, dragons, incense burners, and dragon incense burners. It was a strange time in my life. Sort of a cross between Wiccan and Goth.... Wiccoth. Gothcan? No, Goth can't.