It was 20 years ago today...

[heidi]

...that U2's Joshua Tree came out, musesfool posted today.

For some reason, next month marking 30 years since Star Wars doesn't wibble me the same way, maybe because I was so young when SW came out. But U2? The firs time I saw them live was at the orange bowl on the joshua tree tour and my original version of the album was a cassette tape. I didn't have a cd player yet.

Speaking of feeling old, this is the first year that my eldest is old enough to participate in Take Our Children To Work Day, so it's been on my mind a lot. Other countries don't do this, I don't think? Does Canada? It's a neat idea, letting kids - usually 8+ - see what goes on at their parents' offices, but at most smaller places, it can be hard to do work while amusing a kid, and at larger places you don't get to see an ordinary day. The theory is neat, though.

And, of course, the concept of Take Our Children to Work Day works well as a fic challenge (maybe a drabble challenge?) too.

What does Primatech Paper do t make the day special?
How are things at MODE with tweens in the picture?
Do they still have TOCTW days at Starfleet Academy?
RPF on the set of 30 Rock this year, when Alec Baldwin's daughter drops by?

...I can't even type up all the possible Weechester scenarios...

Feel free to gack the challenge- it could be fun - and if you do write something from the prompt, please let me know?

Comments

[genealogygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I saw Star Wars in the theaters, and gah, it has been 30 years, hasn't it?

:::feels very old:::

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I saw it in theaters - and had it on *betamax*.

Do they still even exist anymore?

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like the MODE idea. *ponders*

The Office actually did an episode based around Take Your Daughter to Work Day last year.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear that! That's so cool.

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

So I went ahead and wrote one (http://sundancekid.livejournal.com/501134.html). :p

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I remember bringing McDonalds into the theater on 74th and Collins Avenue when we went the second week with my dad, his best friend Bart and Bart's two kids. We sat on the left side of the theater and left before Leia gave them the medals. I didn't see that scene for maybe ten years. I just didn't know it existed.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

We do it in Canada. :)

[lisarene.livejournal.com]

Wow, that does make me feel old. The Joshua Tree tour was the first big concert I ever saw... when I was 16!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was 16 too! Are you 1970 or 1971?

[lisarene.livejournal.com]

Late 1970!

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

Today also marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Everybody by Madonna! Back when she was a total unknown...

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

: plays Robbie Williams's She's Madonna in Maddy's honour.

<3 madonna!

Um, this is the closest icon I have to madonna, i think?

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

I mean 25th anniversary!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Oooh, sorry I missed it! : checks listings for a rerun

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to ignore that Star Wars is 30 years old.

*FEELS SO DAMN OLD*

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Being old is better than the alternative. :D

[ina]

We have something like that in Germany too. It's relatively new, but both my nephews participated a few days ago.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Cool! Good to know!

[skg.livejournal.com]

Right there next to you on the wibbling. 20 YEARS since Joshua Tree came out??!! Much harder to stomach than 30 years for Star Wars. I guess it is easier to accept that it has been 30 years since I was 5 than it is to accept that it has been 20 since I was 15. Especially since I still feel 15 a good part of the time.

Yikes.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I guess it is easier to accept that it has been 30 years since I was 5 than it is to accept that it has been 20 since I was 15.

That is exactly it. Because 15 or 16 is when you *think* you're totally grown up and can do the car thing (even if it's only while supervised) and pick the music to play while you go down the road and sing as loud as you want when nobody is in the car and when you were 15, five was really little and young and it didn't matter as much what you remembered from that age anyway. Maybe?