Matthew k

I've never seen it work that way, or hardly ever. A super sexualized 13/14 year old isn't like to calm down when he gets older, older meaning 18, 19, 20 etc, but to get wilder in college. Maybe in their 30's they slow down, but a lot of the damage is already done.

But he stopped her.

Ha, I was just going to say that. Not only are they going to tighter jeans, but actual "skinny jeans" and every time I see them, I think, "why in the world do they want everyone to know they have no muscle in their legs?? I also thought someone raised a great point in a review of the last chapter, why did the Hendricks let Kirstin go to Paris with Gathan, but get all hyper when she went to stay with him? In fact I don't quite the anger at Gathan, afterall, he did stop Kristin from getting on the plane that crashed....

H-W takes social responsibility pretty seriously. A lot of the parents are concerned that their kids turnout "normal", not affected by money, Hollywood, and the like. The president, Tom Hudnut is an amazing guy, it would be interesting to hear him and JP discuss Tom's book, L'Algérie, de Gaulle et l'armée: 1954-1962.

He is Mark Arbour, but he thinks he is Ethel Merman!

Ha ha OMG, that is Patrick Newman, son of Randy Newman (Short People, Toy Story, etc) and Michael Karsh, son of Bruce Karsh, who at last glance was a billionaire money manager. Typical of the kids at HW. Mr. O'Malley, who they thank at the end is the grandson of Walter O'Malley who owned the L.A. Dodgers before they sold the franchise to what's his face. Here is another HW video, although mostly not shot at HW, just HW guys. http://wn.com/COMMON_DECENCY-The_Ketchup_Story Jake Lasker actually shot a whole movie called "Senioritis" before his senior year of HS, which he released not too long ago If you Google "Senioritis" and Jake Laster you can find it online.

No, you don't need to do Brad and Robbie again Jeremy, but Mark opened the door in describing Berto's grin like Robbies, at least i think it was the grin, in any case it was some physical feature of Berto's that was compared to Robbie and Mark doesn't make casual comparisons, it seems to be a hint that Berto could be in Will's life, if not now, but in the future. As to "small dicks", I doubt Berto is really small, it is more likely that Will will discover Berto is average, something around 6", not 4". But who knows, maybe a nice 'trainer dick' is just what will needs.

Mark is taking poetic license with this incident. It was a charter, not a scheduled flight. Kristen could not have gotten on the flight if she wanted because it was not a public flight. The Air France ground crew could not have booked her on board if they wanted. I was going to crack a joke about "turbo boost" on the picture until it struck me that it was a picture of a bunch of people about to die and then the joke didn't seem so funny.

Fun chapter. Interesting how far ahead you must think to tie Air France 4950 into the story along with kidnappings, etc. to put them in Paris at that time. Obviously I am guessing that she doesn't get on the flight because otherwise you'd have to bring in another female character to write your bi-sexual sex scenes and that would be a lot of hard work

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger met over 30 years ago when they were both young chefs at a top notch Chicago, Michelin starred restaurant and quickly became best friends. Mary Sue married Susan's ex-husband. Mary Sue and Susan are the Two Hot Tamale and have been business partners for 25 years now in several successful restaurants, cooking books and their own TV series. So it depends.

It is hard for the casual reader to know where a character is because while you might know where Will is heading in the future and you might think of that Will you are heading towards, not the Will that the reader sees based on the available information. On one hand Will seemed very mature for a 13 year old, what might be brattiness in an ordinary 13 year old might not be on a child of affluence. The other hand is how mature and poised kids of the rich and famous can be because of the world they are exposed to. Yes some can be ultra brats, but others can just be mature well beyond their years and some are a healthy dose of both. Kids also have to earn respect and privileges though and have to learn to give respect as well. If you do your job right as a parent it all seems to turn out in the end.

Damn I love teen angst. You think you'll never be happy again, like a piece of you is chopped out forever, but after a while, it is just a memory, if even a bitter sweet one. Very nicely done.

It is a great tradition! It worked well for centuries! Then maybe you can finally declare! I don't what Neil Patrick Harris says, Broadway still belongs to us!

I like the idea of Gathan in a fraternity (not "frat", very rude!). Could be many interesting storylines there. Fraternities were hormonally charged places when I was in college and there plenty of rumors about how "close" some guys appeared to be in the house. This is about the same era as Crosscurrents isn't it? As to lack of drama in the 9th grade!?! Oh puh-leeze, 9th grade was all drama all the time.

I get it! So you mean we should only practice self-abuse! : I am right there with you sister.

So dude..... I am thinking just back on the caffine a bit (I'm just sayin') I always assumed that Jack's family had their money and that as the Crampton's and Schuler's prospered, the families would take care of Claire and the kids. That there would be trust funds, etc., all the things that the uber wealthy do with their money. I had the Hobart's net worth into the $100 million area between the Hobart money and what Claire would have. The uber rich have money because you can't help but make money when you have gobs of it. A $20, 000,000 fund becomes $66,000,000 in 20 years at the relatively modest and safe rate of 6% on monthly compounding, $98,000,000 at a more aggressive 8% and even a modest increase in risk to 9% takes it to $120,000,000 without ever having to add to the principle. But without doing the homework you did today, that was a rough guess. I am guessing the numbers you came up with, upwards of $200,000,000 makes more sense. And to all you youngin's out there do your own math on retirement savings. If youhave $2,000 in saving now and could put away $4,100 a year for 35 years at 9% you'd have over $1,000,000 when you were ready to retire. the most importand lesson you will ever learn financially is the time vale of money. http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm

And yet you bludgeon Matt? All I have seen of Matt is impassioned beliefs, but because those beliefs go against the norms of this community he gets a lot of grief for them. I believe Matt's definition of backstabbing is people negging people without an explanation. I would have negged your post, but I am sure you would have blamed Matt so I didn't. I think your attitude in that post is less than stellar and not in any way civil. Online bullying is name calling and vitriol, I just don't see any vitriol from Matt, I do see it from many of his distractors and shockingly from people you would think were old enough to know better.

Given the recent, woeful results of UK teams in the UEFA Cup, UEFA Champions League and the World Cup many on the continent would contend little 'real' football is played at all these days in the UK.

It looks more and more like the 2011 NFL season will be affected by the current lockout. NFL Lockout: Teams Cut Payrolls If there are no football games on Sunday, what will you do? Is it possible to survive a whole fall and bleak early winter with no football games on Sunday? Maybe the college ranks can shift some high profile games to Sunday or maybe the MLS can get a major channels in prime time viewing slots.

I predict Tracy Morgan and Anthony Weiner will be roommates in rehab...... That is how you absolve yourself of all guilt today, two weeks at Betty Ford.

It wouldn't take me 15 years to get even. Maybe not 15 minutes.

So SirruisXM has a channel that is old time radio dramas, I wanna say it is Channel 82. I can hear the organ hits, "bump bah bah" as the chapter ends.

I am a cynic. I ask how and why is it being talked about now? The therapy happened in 1971. The final paper was published in 1974. The suicide was in 2003. The papers were not secret, they were published in leading journals of the day and they were fairly mainstream thoughts for the day. Rekers was not the sole author of the study, the highly respected Ole Lovaas was the co-author, but his name was never mentioned in the story. It wasn't at some crazy camp in the Utah wilds, it was UCLA and it was sponsored by the federal government. If you read the paper and read all the references and look them up, you see this was as I said before, pretty mainstream stuff. The family also skates in this report, they are made to look like victims. It is the parents who wanted it. They wanted the behavior modification and the mother was an active participant. The psychologists did their thing with the boy one day a week. The mother did the behavior modification every day and continued to do so even after the study had been concluded. So who is bringing this up now and why? The cynic in me says it has a political motivation behind it and nothing more otherwise Lovaas, Baker, Green, Bentler, Zugar, and the other 26 psychologists that Rekers & Lovaas cited would have been mentioned and the whole field talked about, not one psychologist and one case.

Wrecks happen, fights are started.

Really nice chapter. I remember my freshman year in high school when my best friend told me he didn't love me the way I loved him despite the fact that our relationship wasn't too different from Will & John's. The bitch was having to watch him date girls through high school, even go on double dates with him and be jealous over the fact I wasn't the one macking with him. One might say this chapter was really on the mark.