Corey Feldman is getting married again. This time, it’s on a reality show, “The Surreal Life,” featuring Webster and Motley Crue’s lead singer. Ugh. Things weren’t always this way. Just for a brief moment, let’s travel back to the year 1993 when the economy had strength and when everyday life wasn’t nearly as ugly.

Low and behold! At different times, Primus and Radiohead played the Duke Ellington Ballroom, showing us that the CAB Concerts committee knows more about music than we give them due credit for. While Radiohead and Primus rocked the Duke, Amnesia was advertising oil-wrestling in the Northern Star.

The Chicago Cubs shut out the Atlanta Braves, 1-0, which proved to be the last time the Chicago Cubs ever beat any team worth a damn. Elsewhere in Chicago, the raging Bulls went on to clinch their third consecutive title, only to have a Michael Jordan crisis interrupt a fourth consecutive Championship. And Joe Carter hit a home run in the ninth to give the Toronto Blue Jays a 4-2 World Series championship.

Joey Lawrence released a CD … and no one cared. But people did care about the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots, buying into the critically acclaimed “Siamese Dream” and “Core.”

A civil rights atrocity occurred when members of the Los Angeles Police Department beat up Rodney King on camera, and a white jury let them walk free, in one of the most controversial court cases in recent history.

1993 was a nasty year, weather-wise. The blizzard of ‘93 knocked out Chicago for a couple of days, leaving those with working electricity to watch shows like “Roseanne” and a popular kids show featuring a scientist named Beakman.

“A Few Good Men,” starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, handled the truth, rounding out the bottom of the top 10 movies of 1993. Movie enthusiasts rediscovered a grade-school fascination with dinosaurs, making “Jurassic Park” the No. 1 movie in America, paving the way for not-so-good sequels.

Fast forward 10 years. Here we are, out of 2002, cresting slowly into 2003. War looms on the horizon, and ABC is working on a new superficial reality show, “Are You Hot?” Tampa just won Super Bowl XXXVII, a win that 10 years ago, would be unimaginable. A win that just might give hope to those hapless Chicago Cubs fans. Mmmmm … nah.

Sorry Cub fans, some things will never change.