When Erica was 15, she wrote down her life story, and she started at the very beginning.

I was born on October 29, 1985, and was I ever cute?

Happy face.

I was two weeks late, and my feet were about to come out before my head, so my mom had to have a caesarian.

I wonder what Freud would have to say about that.

Happy face.

That's Erica, reading from the memoir she wrote at 15.

I'm Dan Meisner, and this?

This is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

How are you doing tonight?

This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.

This time, recorded live in Montreal, we have a story about really, really, really wanting

to dye your hair, a mock UN resolution, scathing criticism of the pop art movement of the

1960s, and much more. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and like Freudian analysis,

it's fun to think about what it all really means.

So think about who you were when you were a kid. And stick around.

We hear a lot of diary entries and poetry and short stories at grownups read things they wrote as kids. But what we don't hear a lot of diary entries and poetry and short stories at grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

But what we don't hear a lot of is art criticism. So, at our Montreal show, when I asked the

question, are there folks in the room who are familiar with the artwork of Klaise Oldenberg?

When I asked that question, I wasn't surprised that at least a couple people in the room didn't

know who I was talking about.

If you are not familiar with Klyse Oldenberg, he was an influential part of the pop

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