January 18, 2011
In the Face!
Date: ~1997
Location: Oakland, NJ
Description: This picture has taken my best detective work to piece it all together. First, the location was easy – Aaron’s folks’ basement was home to more shenanigans than anywhere else in my life. Unfortunately, many of them were caught on video. Second, it’s an interesting mesh of people, but it was pretty easy to determine what we were doing by the Balderdash paraphernalia scattered about (we still used the actual Balderdash paper back then!) The timeline was the hardest, and I was only able to get close by the Dew. The first time they changed from their classic logo to this more ‘hip’ one was my senior year of high school, and the incarnation in the photo only lasted a year or two if my memory serves me correct. So, let’s say this was either 1997 or 1998. This was right around the time that Balderdash turned into ‘Dash, and the game was never the same again. Neither was Doug’s face, as evidenced by this shot that I was extremely fortunate to get with a disposable camera. I don’t need to be a sleuth to know how much this picture makes me smile.