How you know your aging...

Two words.  Mark Wahlberg. 

While I am driving home from the store today with my kids...I find myself having to explain how WE (those of us over 30) remember Mark Wahlberg.  This conversation started when we were talking about Transformers: Age of Extinction.  I said....WAIT!  Before he was Cade Yeager he was Marky Mark.  The kids are like, "what is a Marky Mark?"  My reply... "he's not a what he's a who."  

I silently laughed to myself.  I think back to NKOTB-that Mark is related to then bad-boy Donnie and how my kids have no CLUE who NKOTB is and how these subjects relate!  

So I have to Kevin Bacon Game-esque tell them how all this fits together.  So the only way I start is this...before he was in Transformers--way before--he was Marky Mark from the Funky Bunch.  <---Insert Good Vibrations video--->

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So once this starts they start jumping and seat dancing-yelling "I love this song!"  So they knew all along.  Of course too young to truly identify who this superstar singing/flowing was.  So I start with this....when mommy was in elementary school, she was in love with this boy band called New Kids on the Block.  It had five members, one of which was Donnie Wahlberg.  Not only was Donnie the bad boy, he had a brother named Mark that later became a musically inclined bad boy too.  Donnie went on to acting as did Mark and later Donnie married Jenny McCarthy which you remember dated Jim Carrey---then met Donnie on Watch What Happens Live.  (I vividly remember this live episode where I noticed the on camera chemistry thinking to myself---these two could really be something---so I credited myself with their hookup). He was also an underwear model for Calvin Klein.  They also have another show with their other brothers called Wahlburger's.  They are nodding like they followed that the whole time-my daughter remembers all of this from an article she read in one of my US Weekly magazine.  She is very well read--developing this must have knowledge of the world at a young age.

The way I remember Mark Wahlberg was not at Marky Mark but as David McCall from Fear!  Many other women reaching puberty in the 90's can probably relate.  As psychotic as he was---we still thought he was the most intent of lovers!  We never looked at Ferris Wheels the same.  Later going on to play other characters I couldn't resist such as Dirk Diggler, Bobby Mercer, Max Payne, Det Terri Hoitz, etc. 

So consider all of the other wealth of history and knowledge just marinating in our brains for another moment like this.  What's next?  Scary thought.  Now where is my Fear VHS at?