PrivateTim

Some of those are Mexican slang words not 18th century Spanish and direct translations don't always work because the insult might not make sense directly translated. Balls would be "alegrias" While bastardo might be the actual word, a Spaniard wouldn't use it as an insult, he'd say "cabron" (billy goat) or "hijo de perra" (son of a dog) In speaking to a man, you wouldn't call him a whore, you'd call him a "hijo de puta" (son of a whore), doubly insulting him. I'll think on the others.....

Wade hates WDC and if he goes to law school it will be Stanford or Hastings and he'd wind up at MoFo or if Matt landed at ICM, CAA or Dreamworks, Wade would be at O'Melveny. They are Californians now and aren't heading back to the snow and ice.

Matt is more likely to wind up at International Creative Management (ICM) or Creative Artists Agency (CAA) than old school energy or investment banking. He could also land a job at Dreamworks as an assistant to Geffen or Katezenberg. If he wanted to go into the financial world, he'd more likely wind up at a Silicon Valley capital venture company or an old line SF company like Sutro or Dodge & Cox. He wouldn't want to go back east, why would he?? And no way Wade is for Obama, he is a Hillary person all the way.

Thanks all for the wishes as I hurtle towards middle age .

Not sure who they might be in the stories, but they belong in there somewhere. That is exactly as I picture Brad actually.

"I'll murderlyze him! I'll bite 'em on his ankles!"

Wow, came out messed up.... i'll try again later!

When I was catching up in the Millennium series (all 40 some pages) I saw that you were negged like on every post you posted.... I just figured you and your friends were messing with each other... but it is possible you ticked someone off, but that would be a lot of work to neg you that much if you only get 5 a day.... I think you should be flattered you an touch someone so deeply! 0)

He grinned. “Plenty of time for that later. We have our whole lives to f**k.” I swear with God as my witness Arbour, if this is a foreshadowing of Robbie's death I will hunt you down and stake you to an ant hill!

Missing the songs that electrified the era. 1979 Fame 1980 1980 1981 Who Can It Be Now 1981

That was actually the 2001 Worlds so he had yet to win an Olympic medal and only had two of his six world championships. Has to be the best skating routine of all time.

Or jealous? Palo Alto High, who beat Gunn 49-14 in their cross town rivalry game, won a CA state championship last night in Los Angeles. The town of Palo Alto will be jazzed, will the Gunn kids and alums? I know if I lost to my cross town rival I'd be happy they won a state title so I could say "hey at least we lost to the best team in state".

If Matt and Wade are still together in 2008, they would be 27 or 28, why wouldn't they have gotten married in CA when the window opened? And I think the character of Will has developed at just about the right pace. Before Millennium Will wouldn't have been that interesting given his age. Bloodlines and The Box told different stories, not about the main characters we had known in CAP, but introduced us to new ones and answered questions about old ones. The next generation stories have to come from JJ and Will or Matt, That isn't to say Robbie or Brad or even Stefan couldn't have stories for us to follow or maybe even another character, not yet seen, a Charmichael kid from the Navy commander maybe will cross their paths in strange and wonderful ways. I also don't find it odd that Will didn't talk to his dads about his sexuality or about Drew, most teen boys aren't talking to their parents about their sexuality or sex life. I never talked to my parents about mine.

Can you shout, I am what I am? I am what I am I am my own special creation. So come take a look, Give me the hook or the ovation. It's my world that I want to take a little pride in, My world, and it's not a place I have to hide in. Life's not worth a damn, 'Til you can say, "Hey world, I am what I am." I am what I am, I don't want praise, I don't want pity. I bang my own drum, Some think it's noise, I think it's pretty. And so what, if I love each feather and each spangle, Why not try to see things from a diff'rent angle? Your life is a sham 'til you can shout out loud I am what I am! I am what I am And what I am needs no excuses. I deal my own deck Sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces. There's one life, and there's no return and no deposit; One life, so it's time to open up your closet. Life's not worth a damn 'til you can say, "Hey world, I am what I am!"

I am not buying the "new and improved" Brad yet, it has only been a couple of weeks, if that, since was last a total penis-head. He needs to stay in this mode through a year or two and major stresses. Hot headed Brad was ready to fight a detective, never a good idea, even if the cop is being a phallus-head as well.

Lark may have to open a surf shop in Costa Rica instead of Hawaii.

Can't be the French thing, they wouldn't black & whites to a house and they wouldn't know Robbie is there. Usually black and whites respond to calls so it could be someone trespassing or an assault from a trespasser. I suppose it could be about the pot on the grounds, everyone in the world seems to know about it, but I have a hard time believing that would interest the Palo Alto police and with someone as prominent as JP and Stef they would have their ducks in a row. I have an idea it would hard to get a judge to sign off on a search warrant for Escorial in the absence of a major event.

Right, I meant Colin actually, not Truman. And I didn't say Wyatt and he would be friends, I said they'd know each other well, but even though Wyatt is hockey and JJ is figure skating, they still would have been in the same schools and gone to the same swim parties, etc as kids long before skating came into the picture. While JJ may not be the social animal Darius is, but I never got the impression he is anti-social either. USC is one of the oldest law schools in the state having been founded in 1896 right about when Boalt Hall (Cal 1894) and Stanfurd (1893) were. It is consistently rated a top 20 school in the nation. Top 100 Law Schools

OMG you are such a drama queen sometimes Tim! Not only are you likely to have gay marriage in your lifetime, it is likely before your 35th birthday. You could have it tomorrow if you'd move to Iowa. That sounds as if it came straight out the Summer of '67, the Summer of Love when the revolt against marriage as a dated construct began. To me the question isn't so much do you want the benefits or is it for love, but rather what will your marriage look like? Is it going to be a traditional commitment of "forsaking all others" or are people going to redefine marriage to just being a legal contract about the division of assets and such. I have a hard time imaging most of my gay men friends as faithful partners since most of them cheat like hell. Most of my lesbian friends on the other hand are as loyal as old dogs, they never cheat. My mom's cousin (my second cousin?) has been with her wife for 39 years and they never had any bumps.

Since USC is a private school they can handle admissions any way they choose. It has become a lot harder to get into USC over the last 20 years as Dr. Sample took over, he really built the university's prestige and leadership. That being said though USC is still a family and legacies mean a lot and people who support the university mean a lot as well. The saying in L.A. is "you are a Bruin for 4 years, you are a Trojan for life". The influnece of Stefan, especially since USC's Marshall School of Business is renowned for its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, it is likely Stefan would already have been involved there and then with Robbie's position in Hollywood, USC is one of the top two schools in the country (along with NYU) for Cinematic Arts. And any number of their neighbors in the Colony would be involved at USC to give recs to Darius. We haven't heard much about their friends, but living in that area guys like Wyatt Russell, Max Spielberg, Truman Hanks would have been likely friends, especially with Wyatt's love for hockey, it is likely he and JJ would know each other pretty well. And then there are all the power players in Malibu and the Palisades that no one outside the industry knows, the agents, producers, writers, directors and studio heads that make the area what it is.

There would be no reason for Isidore to sell out of the company. The family in family run companies like Cahill, Dinnwiddie, etc. just move to the board room when they want to ease back. I can see Isidore and Frank both having offices in the San Francisco headquarters that they go into occasionally and Isidore being the face that cuts ribbons when a new bridge or school is opened. There is a lot Mark can't hasn't shown us like how Frank spends his day, what became of the winery (oh and I want Darius to go to Davis if he doesn't go to USC and get involved in the wine business). Ace could run the winery if it is still there. Obviously CA exploded into the international wine scene in 1976 when Stags Leap Wine Cellars won first place in a blind wine tasting in France stunning all the French judges who chose a CA wine over the best of France. There was a huge expansion of wineries in Napa, Sonoma & Mendocino in the 1980's and then in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Temecula in the early 1990's. It wouldn't be out of character with the times for Ace to have gone that direction especially given his French heritage. That also wouldn't stop him from having a law degree or MBA as lots of wineries are owned by lawyers, doctors, politicians, and Hollywood people. There is the famous Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Nancy Pelosi owns a winery, so does Brooks Firestone, an heir to the Firestone fortune who is also a politician in CA. Brooks son owns the Firestone Brewing Company, a well known mirco-brew in CA. Ace could also do that, own a micro brew in Palo Alto or Santa Cruz as micro brews were huge capital ventures on the 1990's and again a lot of lawyers and MBA's left their jobs to start them and also the people who became millionaires in Silicon Valley before the bubble burst.

Well I graduated from Cal in 1999 and have been pretty involved ever since then. I don't think admission standards have dipped at Cal since the late 1960's when being a legacy began to mean less. Cal has been uber competitive since then. UCLA has come up a lot and UCI and UCSD being heavy science schools have been very tough to get into since the early 90's (my mother is on staff at UCI and has been since 1989). I can't speak for other states, but CA has exploded in terms of how many kids go to college so they have added schools and expanded the ones they have. There may have been a baby bust in the east, but in 1980 CA had 23 million people, 34 million in 2000 and close to 40 million now. I assume the southwest is all like that. Pepperdine is not all that religious and neither is Loyola Marymount or the other Catholic universities. USF, USD, Santa Clara and Loyola Marymount are all very supportive of gay rights.See the links below. USF GBLTQ Links USD Rainbow Education Santa Clara Safe Space Loyola Marymount Launches GBLT Office They are also very fun schools socially. If Darius is really mister social, I see him at USC and joining a fraternity house. I can just see Stefan at the SAE house visiting Darius and flirting. Remember that USC is the home of the George Lukas School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg (TV Guide) school of Communication & Journalism. San Diego State would be too low for Darius. USC has cache and a lot of kids with money.

Why don't you want to do what it is they want you to do? Because I suspect they will not take a simple "no". If you say "no it doesn't appeal to me" they'll ask "what doesn't appeal to you" if you say "no, I don't have time for it" they will persist to explain how it takes no time at all. You probably just have to be strong and say "no" and if they press for a reason, say as nicely as possible, "I don't really want to discuss it more, I've made my decision, but thanks for thinking of me".

The link I posted has the freshman classes of 2008, 2009 & 2010. I don't think 2004 would have been terribly different. And not to insult your beloved Delaware, but CA has so many universities we haven't even thrown half of them out there yet. CA probably has 100 4 year schools. USC is totally the kind of school a social butterfly like Darius might go to, but that also goes for schools like the University of Redlands, the University of the Pacific, Occidental (where Obama went), The Claremont Colleges & Whittier College (Richard Nixon's alma mater). Then there are the Catholic schools, U San Diego, U San Francisco, U Santa Clara & Loyola Marymount. A couple of them are very much social/party schools. Another possibility is that Stefan or JP could pull strings to get Darius into UC Davis that has the country's #1 school for oenology (wine making). As to Marine biology or oceanography, the top two schools are USC, with their Wrigley Institute and UC San Diego with the Scripps Institute.