AN OLD POST FROM MY OLD WEBSITE

this picture of vanilla ice has been in with my travel card in my back pocket for the past couple of years.
i could not even begin to calculate how many times i have sat on his face....

as for vanilla ice - at college (16 - 17 years old) i studied ancient history - all about the greeks and the romans. the teacher was kind of nice and kind of strange - she really wore a lot of mascara. most classes were taken up by us watching the tv series "i claudius." really i was shit at ancient history - i only took it cause i had to take something [all classes were elective.] i could never remember anything. for my exams i studied the historian suetonius because out of all of them his accounts were the most interesting. but it was also know that suetonius was the biggest gossip and bitch on the scene and would often exaggerate things to make a better story. [well so they say - afterall - who really knows except those there] anyway - after exams our teacher was really embarrassed she said "thank goodness i marked the question on suetonius and not one of the other teachers - you exam emma was almost pornographic!" it is much easier to remember tits and ass i think than dates so suetonius' writings were great. he spoke about caligula raping his sister and people being tided to stakes and fucked....

but anyway back to vanilla ice. there was this guy in our ancient history class who was not very clever. for example - to save his walkman batteries he unscrewed the cassette and tried to flip the tape over manually. Of course the tape became unwound and spilled everywhere. a bit simple. BUT he LOVED vanilla ice. His name was Ricky. Sometimes when I went out to take part in hobart's gripping night life at clubs like the Babylon, la cage, refines or the one that Ricky was at - the caddillac club (before it was called "club dimension" and after it was called "the avenue" im not sure what it is called now) and he would only dance to ice ice baby and he knew the dance routine EXACTLY. he was very good at it! he looked a bit like vanilla as well and also had a shaved eyebrow. and he wore the black waistcoat with high shined shoes and denim too. he was great.