Back in the Day: Livin' the Jersey Life

Check it. Admit it, you're jealous. I know. Isn't that one of the great things about heading home for the holidays once you've "grown up" and moved away? Those occasions where you find yourself digging through an old drawer and finding some love note you wrote to a chick in sixth grade, or that cut off t-shirt you wore under your high school jersey that you thought was so badass at the time but was actually quite awful in retrospect.This latest trip home, though, uncovered a real treasure. As my mom bounded down the stairs from a jaunt to the attic with my fiancee to check out some old family relics, she held out a long-forgotten article and naively asked: "do you need this for anything?"Not surprisingly, the answer was an emphatic, exuberant and unequivocal "yes!" Bad Moon Rison? Are you kidding me!? Of course, I have absolutely no realistic use for such a garment at this time, but it traveled back to New York City with me as my future wife shot me an incredulous look that was part...