Odd

I sentinel a lot of YouTube videos.  Mostly at work.  It's a fringe benefit, but my supervisors would likely non run across this the same way.

Perhaps amongst slight nostalgia, I clicked on an former skateboard video today.  This led to to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than former skateboard videos beingness suggested yesteryear YouTube, i of which was a clip from the cheesy 1986 cinema "Thrashin'" amongst Josh Brolin together with Pamela Gidley.  I confess that, equally a skater inwards the 80s, I watched this cinema repeatedly to the scream for of memorization.  For many of us it was our starting fourth dimension exposure to existent skateboarding.  Yeah the floor was stupid, it for sure didn't portray the sport inwards a really positive light, instead making us expect similar warring gangs torching property.  But the skateboarding, equally it e'er does, rang true, louder than hokey dialog together with a predictable plot, totally hooking those of us on the fringes who wondered if at that topographic point powerfulness last something to it other than riding downwards our driveways on K-Mart boards.

And together with therefore at that topographic point was Chrissy (played yesteryear Pamela Gidley), honey involvement of the primary character.  She was everything our underdeveloped teenage brains idea a skateboard girl should be: smart, beautiful (obviously), sugariness but tough, supportive of our socially unacceptable hobby together with amongst simply a petty chip of her ain devilish side.  We all had crushes on Chrissy, whether nosotros wanted to acknowledge it or not.

After confirming the coast was clear, I clicked on that link together with watched the 5 infinitesimal snippet.  And another.  And another.  A Delorean couldn't stimulate got transported me whatever quicker.  You know what I found?  I'm old, Thrashin' is yet a cheesy movie, the skating yet holds upwardly together with about crushes never die.

While wearing the rose colored spectacles, I wondered what ever became of her.

So I Googled Pamela Gidley.

Only to detect she had died at 52.

On Apr 16, 2018.

And i twelvemonth to the 24-hour interval I air current upwardly randomly watching her inwards a clip from the endless body of body of water of them.

The universe is a bitch man.

Brolin together with Gidley inwards Thrashin'

     

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