I Want to be a Rock Star
I I took this picture of my son Casey and his friend Jake more than a decade ago. They’d transform the dining room into a stage. That’s Jake on the Lego container. Casey’s on t-ball bat strings. That’s a state fair prize bunny on backup.  This makes me think about what we dream about/act out as kids and how it influences what we’re doing now. What do you want to be when you grow up? Are you on the way toward that? Did you change your mind somewhere along the way, and why? Have you abandoned your childhood career dream?  Wouldn’t it be great if every single day at work felt like we were in this picture? Well, maybe not as the Lego container. Rock on.      Â
November 16th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Awesome pic Sherri!!
Flashback - 1969 — this could have been a pic of my buddy, Carlin Silvio, and I in Baton Rouge as kids — loyal (and registered) members of the Monkee Fan Club!!! Peter Tork rocks!!! (is he still alive)????
November 16th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Yes I always aspired to be a Geophysicist. I remember as a child I would tiker around with Fourier Transforms and 3D Migration algorithims. I wanted to be the first kid on the block to solve the wave equation….not….I really wanted to be a doctor, but I got in trouble when I played doctor with the girl across the street and was told never to do that again.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
George: Yes, and he’s still at it. www.petertork.com
Danny Bro.: I remember your rock collection.
I wanted to be a professional ballet dancer. Those dreams and efforts were pas de deuxed after I slammed through a fence while showing off on the ski slopes.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:43 am
In third grade I wanted to become a writer. One of the few fond memeories I have of my dad was of him typing the book I wrote in third grade “Jessie and the Great Hamster Race” late at night on a manual typewriter. Preteen I was all about sports. When my HS Basketball coach found out I was moving to Louisiana, he asked my parents if I could stay in NY. I was all for it!!
They say if you want to find your true life’s passion, go back to childhood and remember the things you LOVED doing.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am
George, do we know each other?
November 17th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Suzie, Stop flirting with Sherri’s friends.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:59 am
George may be my friend too for all I know.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:48 am
George, Peter Tork was ALWAYS my favorite! Did you know that Michael Nesmith’s mother invented White Out? Ok, I am WAAAAY to young to know all of this.
I wanted to be Sherri Allen when I grew up.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Suzie, no we have not met, but you may keep flirting!! Seems like Anonymous was going to try to introduce us maybe last year at some run when you were in town, but think I was out of town that weekend and did not make the run.
I had the first 5 Monkee albums as a kid. Although the show was fun, it was kinda dumb (Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan were far more serious).
LindsAy, it’s very impressive that you know all of this interesting trivia and even better that we can post it on the SherriAllenTalleyWaggonerKtBstalley.com website.
I moved back to Baton Rouge for short time after getting out of NSU in 1979 and went out with a gal who was Michael Nesmith’s cousin - and I really impressed her by already knowing the White OUt story (as evidenced by a total of two dates with her - I probably should have told her P Tork was my favorite too when I called for the 3rd date and she told me she was busy and had to wash her car or something like that)!
Oh, Mary Ann was my choice in case anyone should ask!!!!!!!
November 17th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Sherri Ann - don’t know if you remember, but it seems Peter Tork came to some Shreve Square bar a number of years ago - I did not go, but heard he was quite “dazed” and was not very good.
Was also reading back of my Monkee Greatest Hits CD several years back and seems like our own James Burton played on their original track “Mary, Mary” - think that was on their 1st album (or should I say 8-track)!!
November 18th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Michael was my favorite Monkee even before I knew his family was rich. George, you must be my age to have had an 8 track. While girls my age loved Davy Jones and Bobby Sherman, I had it bad for Tom Jones. Do you remember his tv show? Women would throw their panties on stage. I had a poster of him in my bedroom. When he came to Shreveport, I was there and knew every word to every song. He had gotten fat.
November 18th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Mel, I’m still real young - I just have friends who had 8-tracks?!?! (Not) Still remember my 1st Craig 8-track I put in my car!!!
Sherri, your clock on your blog must be futuristic - Mel wrote her comment at 5:48, but it is now 4:56 in my home - I must be caught in some kind of time warp!!
November 18th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I also remember watching the Tom Jones show too. I had one of his 45’s in my record collection. Don’t believe Mom threw her panties at Tom, but she would have for Dean (remember the Dean Martin Show (and his Golddiggers))!!
November 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Don’t get me started. I SWEAR I am reincarnated. I have the WHOLE Sonny and Cher Show collection on DVD…CHER IS THE GREATEST…EVER!
I also adored That Girl and Mary Tyler Moore (Ooooh, Mr. Grant).
When The Monkees came to town, my mommy saw them and got to meet them! I wish I had been born then. She’s always had a thing for Davey Jones. He just looks like a singing British midget to me. Peter Tork was the best!
Also, I always liked George Harrison (he had pretty eyebrows). Although, I think John Lennon and Paul McCartney and the most talent. Ringo…I could take him or leave him. My FAVORITE joke of ALL time deals with this but I won’t post it b/c I don’t want to offend anyone further…HAH!
Oh, I also like The Mama’s and The Papas!!! “Everybody’s gettin’ fat except Mama Cass” (Creeque Alley)
Oh, and George? I didn’t really like Gilligan’s Island. I HATED Gilligan, he was a goon. And if the professor can build a sort of morse code system out of coconut shells, why couldn’t he just build a raft!??!?!?!?
November 18th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
P.S-George, did you know that Sher was Ms. NSU?!?!??!
Oh, and Ms. Oklahoma…
She “ballet’ed” to the theme from Love Story.
November 18th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Believe Sher a couple of yrs behind me at NSU. However, when I was there, you got to vote for Mr & Ms. NSU everytime you drove thru Shamrock and/or Maggio’s drive thru liquor stores!! One vote everytime you drove thru, so you could get a bunch of votes in just a single nite!!
LindsAy, all we would have had to do to get Sher elected was to tape that Valerie Bertinelli pic (e.g., Talley Homework) up on the Shamrock and Maggio drive thru windows and she would have gotten all the votes!!!
Gilligan was a goon (probably all the pot smoking) but Ginger and the Howell’s were in the Menza club for thinking about bringing 25 sets of clothing for a “3 hour cruise”!!
November 18th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Oops, that’s menSa!! Guess I’ve just blown my invitation.
(However, I do know that I think there was a MenZa guy that played in Poison or MEgaDeath or some band).
November 18th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I think Sharon Stone is in Meza.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
And has a tatoo to prove it (hope she spelled it rite)!!
November 19th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Sorry…MeNza
November 19th, 2007 at 9:31 am
LindsAy, I thought you were making fun of the Mensa issue with Sharon Stone a couple of years ago. Don’t know why I remember all of this useless junk (and I did have to look this up on a S. Stone website as I did not remember all of the details), but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Stone#Mensa_Controversy
Guess they nailed her when she found out there were NO Mensa schools to go to. Guess, I can’t say that either now — dang!!!!
November 19th, 2007 at 9:39 am
By the way SA, although I am kidding above and just to set the record straight, I know you very proud of being selected Miss NSU. That was a huge honor when I was there and any that were even nominated were always very admired and respected - so belated congrats!!
(ps - didn’t you run against that Tamale Queen gurl from Zwolle or wuz she from Robeline??)
November 21st, 2007 at 12:54 am
OMG–this is Sherri–I was doing live shots from the Louisiana Boardwalk tonight and this handsome young man walked up to me and said, “Hi Miss Sherri”. I didn’t recognize him, then looked into his eyes. It was Jake! Jake, in the picture on this post, playing the Lego container! How cool is that! I haven’t seen him in years!
George–please, I’m begging you…don’t ever bring up the Miss NSU subject anywhere around LindsAy. This will open a huge spat. She thinks it’s a pageant. She doesn’t believe me when I tell her it’s an elected honor. Maybe she won’t see this posting. Thanks for your congrats. Yours, George. Not yours, L! (Gurl)
November 21st, 2007 at 9:46 am
Anonymous - I’m sure we just have a failure to communicate with LindsAy!! We can simply educate her on the many awards and honors bestowed on aspiring students at NSU - seems like the “Lady of the Bracelet” was the “pageant” back then and not sure if you would have participated in that or not.
However, as you and I know, the Mr & Miss NSU was for those Mensa types of students (Sher - just go with this….)that the rest of us admired, respected and wanted to emulate. Seriously, you must have been quite involved to get the necessary nominations - can’t remember who won when I graduated, but I was very involved on campus my senior year and missed the boat in that regard (I was really involved with the dorm Resident Assistant’s group on campus - imagine me being an R.A. (scary))!
However, my fraternity awarded me “Most Scholastic” (haaaa!!!) and Most Athletic my senior year at our annual banquet.
However, LindsAy won’t read this, so you are safe!!
November 27th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Oh, I see it…I’m lurking.
In high school, I was voted:
Biggest Klutz
Worst Hypochondriac
Worst Driver
Most Gullible
I’m cool.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
LindsAy,
All of those high school awards and honors would have probably made you eligible for Miss NSU had you gone to N’western….and you would have been cool on top of that!! Doesn’t get much better than that!