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I get what you're saying but Mark has been pretty firm on the idea that Jeremy will never have an official job because he doesn't have to have one so he doesn't want one. (I don't think Claire ever got an official job, right?) If he does anything it's going to be in a strict voluntary capacity like the debutante he is. I do think Jeremy's more than capable of working his ass off at something (he didn't just get handed a gold national figure skating medal) but it also kind of feels like he's just checked out on throwing that much of himself into anything ever again. I will say though, as someone who's been around in the non-profit and community performing arts world we DIE for people like Jeremy. Bored rich people who don't "work" but need to focus on something to give them a purpose.

I can't imagine how many lawsuits you've probably settled involving men who chased after a pretty 20-something and it went bad.

Right. I was thinking about Jeremy probably having a litany of workouts that he cycles through. I guess Jeremy's doing pickleball? LOL I can just see him being someone who takes it too seriously.

Maybe he'll take up pickleball instead when the pandemic hits.

Yeah, I see that after watching the video. Definitely a lot of daytrippers, it looks like. They do own property in Wyoming though, right? I thought they brought property there during the Matthew Shepard storyline in Bloodlines. I can't remember if they ever turned that into a ski chalet or not. I figure we don't get skiing scenes in CAP because Mark isn't interested in skiing so we don't see the characters do it. (I do think realistically Stef and Jeremy would be skiers while I can see Matt being into snowboarding. Matt is just so that late 90's jock boy. LOL)

Someone sounds like they're in the discovery phase of a really big, "I can buy a new Mercedes!" case. Maybe you can take a vacay to Catalina Island after it's done? I don't think Mark has had the CAP characters stay on Catalina Island, has he? It's probably a bit too close to home for them, giving "staycation" vibes. The "no car" thing would bum out most of those characters as well. I can't see any scenario in which Will and Travis don't settle down in Los Angeles, provided they're still together in 2025. Or Mark can choose a different tragedy and have them lose their house in the 2018 wildfire. A bunch of Malibu people got affected by that one.

As an aside, if anyone's interested in checking out the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires particularly the destruction of Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and a bit of Malibu... Holy crap, this was a sobering look. It's wild to think of the homes that we thought were spared are uninhabitable and have to be gutted and rebuilt because of the toxic fumes that were spread. It's like they "saved" those houses for nothing. That gorgeous 1924 Craftsman house of the yoga mom might as well just get demolished anyway. Geez. I started tearing up at the end when we got to the elderly couple tending to the garden of an Altadena home that doesn't exist anymore after living there for 47 years. Like how do you possibly start over at 72 years old? Just the emotion on the old man's face- wanting to maintain a sense of normalcy and dignity and knowing what an uphill battle he and his wife face at trying to rebuild.

Which still makes him quite a bit younger than 50.

It's actually wild to believe this, but Jack is only supposed to be about 40 years old. He and Claire had Marie while they were still in College. Nowadays you're more likely to see a 40-year old with babies or small kids, not teenagers. Especially in educated affluent circles. The expectations regarding marriage and childbearing are so wildly different now as opposed to the mid-1980's.

Taylor just has that right blend of "cool" and "hot". Like he's hot and he knows he's hot, but he's not obnoxious about it. Like he's that frat boy who is actually fun to be around and not a conceited asshole who constantly needs to prove his alpha status.

I'm going to use this as a moment to post my Darius fancast. God, he's hot. ...I can also fully see this guy smiling at the mirror and telling himself how fucking hot he is. (Not that he's wrong.)

My last professor in my final module in paralegal training is a criminal prosecutor for the DOJ. "Vague is what we do best" describes him perfectly. LOL

Little does Travis know, he'll have his own kids with Will after they set up an orgy with Sarah and her girlfriend while celebrating the Obama inauguration. (PER course for CAP stories.)

I mean, Will's instincts do tend to be the right ones.

San Simeon is kind of rundown strip town (not even really a town), but it looks like it's pretty affordable by California beach town standards! It's nice to see a coastal area that wasn't bought up by greedy land developers and developed into an inch of its life. I'm wondering if there's some kind of environmental protection going on here.

Well, Jeremy does have a distaste for McMansions and cul-de-sac neighborhoods.

Chapter 69 -When Will and Travis shower together. "Rain" by Madonna

During the first Firefly Music Festival in Delaware there was a local Home Depot that was spraying festival goers off with hoses. I think I was lucky though and had a shower voucher as a result of my volunteering there and used it after 2 days of not showering. It was an interesting experience taking a shower on a mobile shower truck. LOL (Home Depot, I believe, got in trouble from the fire department for doing it so they stopped doing it in Year 2 of the Festival.) The longest I've ever gone without taking a shower was about 5-6 days because of bathroom remodeling that took almost 2 weeks. I resorted to renting a hotel room for their shower as well as driving down to my sister's house in the boonies. LOL My previous streak was 3 days. I was at a Civil War re-enactment event in Gettysburg in 2004. The smells get pretty bad. LOL

I just want to take a moment and single out Private Tim. Mark, I am pretty sure your stories are the reason why he's not banging some 22-year old paralegal just out of college and/or indulging in a raging cocaine addiction in order to cope with his shitty rich privileged clients. You've given him a vent and I always thoroughly enjoy his takes on the CAP characters.

He's freakin' adorable. No wonder Universal tapped him.

Right. Mason Thames has that Tom Holland nerdish quality about him. He could have easily played Peter Parker if Disney wasn't having him playing Hiccup.

I've always personally really liked James Norton so I can fully sign on with that one. I mean, he's technically too old but the great thing about fancasting celebrities as these characters is that there's usually no shortage of pictures of said celebrity at the right age for the characters. lol How do you feel about Mason Thames for Alisdair then? I think he's got a Tom Holland quality, who has been my Alisdair pick for ages but y'know, new stars keep popping up. There were jokes about him and Thandie Newton's daughter being the new Tom Holland and Zendaya. LOL

Mason Thames then? He's best known for surviving an evil Ethan Hawke in Black Phone and he's set to be Hiccup in the live action How to Train Your Dragon. I could also see Alisdair. (Don't mind the perm- a lot of Zoomer boys are wearing that.)

Heh, two of my Wade Danfield fancasts together! Sam Nivola could also really work as Mouse or Alisdair.

It could be worse. They could be sent to Copperas Cove.