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If JJ moves to Boston, that means that he'll be competing against Johnny Weir at the 2002 Eastern Sectionals for a spot in the '03 U.S. Championship. Holy shit, the fur is going to fly. If Wade goes to Harvard for Law School as the class of 2005, I'm guessing then that he'll be the first one to discover FaceBook when it roles around in '03-'04. It's a damn shame that the Winklevoss twins don't look like Armie Hammer in real life. LOL. My vote is for Matt to wind up at U. of Chicago's fiance masters program. If there's anyone I want to see enjoying Boy's Town, it's Matt.

I think that what Blue's trying to say is that he thinks it's a stretch to say that Will is so family-focused, given that he's incapable of ever putting himself into an awkward position of being around a family member and being polite to them even though they're warring with each other. For example, Wade still has Elizabeth at family functions, even though he'd ban her if it didn't meaning breaching family conduct.That's what family obligations are, and so far the closest we've seen Will doing that was pretending that Matt doesn't exist instead of exploding at him at family dinner. I always kind of figured that given Robbie's interest in architecture, and the fact that this family does construction, Robbie probably helped out every once in awhile when they had renovations. The family sounds like they update their homes pretty regularly. I'd kind of like to see if Will could make French toast.

I think the kid is pretty attractive in that artsy, kinda effeminate way who may or may not be into heroin. You gotta remember that Yang Bang seems to like his guys to be generally of the "bro" type of beauty.

Active College Football Player Comes Out As Bisexual Good for him.

Matt, probably followed by JJ. Will and Darius are too much about family duty and honor for them to ever really run off and start a new life away from their family.

Well, yeah, that was implied there. Tebow can tell himself it doesn't count because there's no vagina. I think I'm rooting for Tebow to eventually end up with Manti Te'o. They'd be one hell of a cute Christian fanatic couple who tell everybody that they're "lifelong roommates."

Parker Young is hot. That's pretty much about it.

It'd be funny for Zach to run into Abstinence Poster Boy Tim Tebow at some point, though.

How, exactly? The song is about a woman and her boyfriend dreaming about leaving behind their troubles in the inner city and getting better-paying jobs and living in the suburbs.

I think it's funny when guys in his age range talk about how much they hate Justin Bieber. It reminds me of when people used to bitch about Zac Efron.

Tet, I AM from the NorthEast, and they wouldn't touch condom use in middle school or in my 9th grade health class. Then again, Delaware's this weird place where things can be very ultra liberal, but every once in awhile things get inexplicably conservative, like how we can't buy beer in gas stations. I'm guess we had to have "abstinence only" education in my state because Delaware appreciated the funding.

Crushes tend to fade pretty fast if there's nothing reciprocal about them and you get to know them as a person instead of as a fantasy.

It's 2002, man...you would have been 24. Matt is still younger than you would have been in 2002, though. For me, I was Matt's current age in 2008...man, that was a crazy year. My jam for that year was "Paper Planes". I doubt this will show up because they seem to be leaning towards an indie vibe, but if they somehow have "Sk8ter Boi" in the movie I will laugh my ass off. Easily the most annoyingly catchy tune of 2002.

I think you're reflecting the fact that Brad, Stefan, and JP have lost a lot of people to AIDS, so Will has often been careful, but at the same time...he's 15. You're invicible up until you're about 25 or so. And if we're being honest here, people in Will's generation just aren't that concerned about AIDS. I remember talking to Adam Phillips, who is about Matt's age, and he talked about how he used to get tested regularly when he was in college and not in a comitted relationship...and he seemed more concerned about it than people my age and younger are. We have two things going on here- the first is that AIDS stopped being a death sentence by the late 1990's, which is when people Will's age started getting old enough for the "sex conversation". Secondly, "abstinence only" sex education started getting mandated in public schools when Will's cohorts were in middle school and high school...my health education teacher actually told us, "Well, I can't really tell you this, but please use a condom." It started off with Clinton and then got pushed hard by the Bush administration. I didn't bother with condoms because I stick to oral sex so I didn't learn how to put one on until I was 21, and my friend told me about how this girl he was hooking up with didn't know how to put a condom on him. It feels like a distinct difference from Gen Xers who came of age during Bush I and Clinton Era(people around Private Tim's age in that late 30's to mid-40's range), because they seemed pretty concerned about avoiding Aids in a way that my co-horts, and the current late teenaged/early 20-somethings aren't. I think the people in what would be Courtney's age co-hort (the people born in the early/mid-90's) are probably even worse than Will's co-hort. I read a comment from YouTube with someone who didn't know what AIDS was. I pray to god they weren't past middle school age, but I wouldn't be surprised if a high school kid asked that. There's a really interesting documentary I watched, called The Education of Shelby Knox, about a young girl trying to get comprehensive sex education in early 2000's Lubbock, Texas. Mark's flat out told me that he's not going to have any characters into the whole abstinence only, chastity movement of the 2000's, which is understandable because they're in pretty liberal areas. Still, it's pretty crazy stuff- they actually hold "purity balls" where girls make a vow to wait until marriage and it's like a father/daughter dance. I kinda thought it'd be funny to see Will lust after some hot guy and then found out that he's some hardcore Christian virgin purity type. I once met a 20-year old preacher's kid, actually pretty good-looking, who told me that he had never engaged in ANY kind of sexual activity, which I thought was a shame. Because my school was near a tabernacle, we actually had a fair amount of Mormons so I knew a bunch of kids that "pledged to wait"...although considering that most Mormons are married with kids by their early 20's that's probably not that hard.

Well, since these guys are fluent in Spanish, Italian, and French, I figure it's time for them to learn Chinese and Arabic. Those seem like the "hot, useful" languages for this decade. Especially if Stefan wants to get in on the building boom of Dubai: It's a shame that the economic collapse derailed the World Islands, which really would have been awesome to look at. In any event, how awesome is Dubai? It's like back in the early 20th century, when the United States was the leader in skyscrapers- now that torch has been passed on to Dubai, and they've done a beautiful job reaching for the sky. Anyway, I really like how the Zach and Will friendship/boyfriendship/whatevership is progressing. The scene on the roof was just sweet...awww, teenaged youth and elevated feelings at their best.

Yeah, this guy would be a contemporary of yours (I'm assuming he was born somewhere around 1994), which should be interesting for you.

Yep, time marches on. Here's an interview with them: They sure lucked out that all of the actors lived and none of them quit. I can't see it being a big hit- the three hour run time alone is probably going to scare people off, but I like movies about "the little moments", which seems to be what this movie is about, so I'm totally in.

Chapter 69 -When Will and Zach talk on the roof, then make love. "Sleep" by The Dandy Warhols -When Brad appreciates the hustle and bustle of New York City, and bumps into Chris Mendoza's mother. "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" by Celia Cruz -When they see Unrinetown. "Run Freedom Run" from Urinetown Urinetown. God, I haven't heard references to that musical in a loooonnnngggg time. It seems largely forgotten. Then again, it's not exactly the kind of musical that gets played in high schools and kept alive that way for new generations. And from what I understand, Broadway musicals in general have gotten less risky in taking things that aren't "feel-good" or uplifting, hence why they have so many revivals or adaptions of hit/cult movies. I can't wait til it's 2006 and they can see Spring Awakening. Holy shit, that must have been a religious experience. If the regional tour was mind-blowing, I can't imagine what the original Broadway experience was like. And Will can fuck Jonathan Groff. (Or JJ. I could actually see JJ with a Jonathan Groft-type of a preppy WASP perfomer.)

I like following football because it gives me things to talk about with cute guys.

Hey, Northface jackets look pretty hot on tall, athletic, preppy guys. What is it with North and South parts of states always hating on each other? In Delaware, Northern Delawareans make fun of what we refer to as "Slower Lower" Delaware, believing that they're all Nascar country music lovin' hicks. There's a distinct difference between the accent in Northern Delaware vs. Southern Delaware...they've got a drawl going on that we don't. Speaking of rivalries...I've always wondered...is it true that Florida and California has some kind of rivalry going on? It would make sense- they're both coastal states with lots of sunshine. Comparing California to Florida? There IS No Comparison State rivalries are fun. Unfortunately Delaware is just too small to have one with another state. Isn't there like massive hatred between Kansas and Missouri, Mark?

Richard Linklater's Boyhood, which was filmed over a 12-year span, is getting ready to be released this year. Here's an article about the process of filming it: He sees flashes of his 'Boyhood' at Sundance It basically seems like a fictional version of Seven Up, focused on one boy. Pretty fascinating concept- essentially seeing a boy every year from the age of 7 to 18. I definitely can't wait to see it, especially because it exists in time, so we'll apparently see references to things like the Iraq War and the Obama administration, as well as go from music like Coldplay's "Yellow" to Daft Punk's "Lucky". I definitely can't wait to see it. Also, the casting director gets some props- the guy they picked really does look like he could be Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke's kid. Plus, he's a contemporary of my oldest niece and some friends I made in RHC at IUP, so it'd be cool to see what a 2000's childhood looks like, as opposed to my 90's one. Finally...out of curiosity, how old were you in 2002, and how old are you now? For most of 2002 I was 16, and I had my 17th birthday at the end of it. Now I'm 28.

I relate to JJ in some ways- the cheerful part, as well as the bitchy petulant child part. For some reason, I also seem to have this deal where I say things that are taken like I'm being an asshole to somebody, although I've been much better about that lately. He's faaarrrrr more focused than I was at his age or even now, though. I was also somewhat effeminate like he was as a teenager, although weirdly enough, I don't read as "effeminate" to people in person anymore.

I'm cheering for Seattle to win because they don't have a Super Bowl ring yet. That's the same reason why I cheered for the Saints at the 2009 Super Bowl.

In retrospect, I think "Not gonna lie" had to have been around in the early '00s...it's the "It's whatever" that I'm wondering about, because I really didn't start hearing it until circa 2007. Whatever has been around forever, but the "it's whatever" seems like a newer thing. And I've talked to Adam Phillips, who was college-aged circa 2001, and it doesn't seem like a phrase he and his co-horts used, because he teased me about saying it. Private Tim, your thoughts? As for the other stuff yeah, I saw Volcano. It came out in 1997 and for some reason they played "Lovefool" by the Cardigans for the movie trailer. I still think it's the height of stupidity to build a subway in a seismically active area that seems to be having considerable earthquakes every couple of decades. Because of Clueless and Volcano, I kinda always wanted to see the Bev Center. Alison Arngrim wrote that before the Bev Center, the area was an amusement park...right next to a bunch of oil rigs. Oh, the 1960's.