Are the Kids doing something New?

OK, so before I take a little hiatus from "Sean's Space," I had to pass this along and get some readers' response...

Did you hear the New Kids on the Block are going to reunite???

Yeah, as my fav teacher of all time pointed out earlier today when I e-mailed her about it, this is strictly a rumor, but sometimes in life, ya need something to get ya through the day, right? This does the trick for me.

Anyway ... this week's issue of "People" magazine has a story that finally all five New Kids — that would be Joe McIntyre, Danny Wood, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight and Jonathan Knight — are going to reunite, 14 years after their last CD!

Here's the news flash, direct from the "People" Web site:
After months of speculation and rumor, the Kids are coming back. A well-placed source tells PEOPLE exclusively that New Kids On The Block are indeed getting back together.

I know ... are you psyched or what???

Of course, Danny has since come out and said that there's been no talks between the Kids and that there are no plans to reunite. (Sucks, right?) But ... that could just be a smokescreen sent out to quell the excitement until the Kids release the news themselves! (Or at least that's the way I choose to think of it.)

I know, given my musical taste (which I've written about here before), from Barry Manilow and Clay Aiken to Hannah Montana and Jamie Lynn Spears' sister, you're probably like, Really, Sean? You're a New Kids fan??? That's a shock, right? (I swear, if I ever lose my iPod, someone's going to pick it up, see the music on it and be like, "Aw, some 12-year-old girl lost her iPod!")

But yes, I was (am?) a total New Kids on the Block fan! I had all their CDs (as you can see from the pics here). I taped all their TV appearances. I wore the T-shirts. I had the action figures (they're NOT dolls!). I watched the short-lived Saturday morning cartoon.

My biggest regret in life, though? I've never seen them live. Any of 'em! They came to Poughkeepsie with Tiffany back in the summer of '89 and I missed both shows. (They actually started off the tour opening for Tiffany but by the time the tour was over, she was opening for them!) Then, when Joey (as he now likes to be called) performed at one of the first K-Fest concerts, I missed it 'cause I was living in Vermont.

The closest I ever came was seeing Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch at the Civic Center in '92 ... now that's $36 I'll never see again!

So, after lo these many years, to have even a glimmer of hope that they'll get back together, I was all over that "like stink on a monkey," as Cosmo Kramer once said.

I swear, whenever I see one of the New Kids in their post-New Kids life (like Donnie in "The Sixth Sense" or the "Saw" series, or Joey on "Dancing with the Stars"), I always make a point to tell whoever I'm sitting next to, He was a New Kid! It's kinda embarrassing if I'm at the movies by myself, squeezing in a matinee before work, and tell that to the person next to me. But hey, it's vital information.

So, please, for me ... cross your fingers ... say a prayer ... send good thoughts out into the atmosphere, positive vibes that the New Kids will get back together. I know I'm not the only out there who wants to see them reunite. And if the Spice Girls can get back together, why not the New Kids???