Robby's Room (coming soon)
'Robby’s room had a space-age theme: planet and comet and moon decals were pasted all over the
walls suggesting that you were now floating within a night black sky somewhere deep in space. The
carpet revealed itself to be a Martian landscape, impressively detailed with canyons and fissures and
craters. Spheres made of glass beads dangled from a glittering, savage-looking asteroid that hung from
the ceiling above a king-sized art deco bed fitted with a stylish comforter. Along with the ubiquitous
Beastie Boys and Limp Bizkit posters were those of various moons: Jupiter’s Io and Saturn’s Titan and
the massive rifts of Uranus’s Miranda. The room also contained a minifridge, brightly colored lamps, a
leather sofa and a stereo, and one entire wall was a stark black-and-white photo mural of a deserted
skate park. Video game cartridges were scattered across the floor in front of the wide-screen TV, now
hooked up to PlayStation 2 amid a pile of Simpsons and South Park DVDs. There was a stack of new
Tommy Hilfiger shirts on his bed. Japanese action figures lined the bookshelves, which contained mostly
wrestling magazines and the entire Harry Potter series, and above the shelves was a large bronze painting
of the zodiac. The remains of a Starbucks iced chai sat next to a giant translucent moon that glowed from
the computer —Robby’s screensaver.'.