Bonus notebook post: Prom Tom!

I was pretty darn obsessed with blink-182 in 8th grade. So much so, that I created a color-by-number (a notebook tradition of mine and Cedric's since 6th grade) of Tom DeLonge's prom photo that I had nabbed from YM magazine. Behold the collaborative artistic abilities of the two of us--Cedric added a bottom half that rivaled Christina Aguilera's VMA getup that year. Please note that you can click on these images to see the finer details of what we created so many years ago.



My cover collage homage to the band, including the photo that inspired my art piece.



Number 1 never got colored because neither of us had a brown pen. I think Cedric's giant set of Pentel markers had long since dried up from countless coloring assignments in 6th and 7th grades.



Tom is singing "All the Prom Things," which is a lot like his other song, "All the Small Things."

There you have it--more proof of how unbearably cool and bored we were in 8th grade. I don't even remember what went on in any of my classes that year, except that we watched that Miracle of Life movie in science class. I'll have to see if I have any notes from then. If not, I must have been highly intrigued.