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Adam, you just gave me flashbacks to a letter you sent me six years ago when I told you that I was always going to take a grain of salt in whatever you had to say about you life because it's the internet. Wow. I do agree with you that have sex with someone once or twice who's of the sex that you're not normally geared towards doesn't really say much. It just says that you were horny, and you were with someone that you knew could take care of that, and well. It doesn't mean that you're sexually fluid...I thought the situation with "Trey" in Cross-Currents pretty much spoke to that. Trey let Andy blow him because he was easy and convenient, and he was able to close his eyes and pretend it was a girl blowing him. But Andy's body just didn't turn him on sexually.

Mark had JJ being due in February of 1986 for Man In Motion, but he had JJ come early to hit on my birthday. Thanks everyone. I'm planning on a low-key birthday with a few drinks tonight with a friend.

Our favorite little bitchy figure skating diva is 28 now. Where do you guys figured he'd be? My guess...crying about being "ancient" and drinking Green Apple martinis at a New York City bar with Johnny Weir and his entourage. Possibly after having gotten his monthly botox injection.

Did anyone else catch it? It was pretty cool to see a live musical broadcasted on network T.V. My favorite song from Sound of Music has always been 16 going on 17... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GJXEr6FAq4&feature=share Man, where were 17-year old guys with faces and voices like that when I was 16? This Rolf was suuuucccchhhh an upgrade over the movie one. He looks like a skinny, live-action version of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.

1. Good point. Blue and I have joked about the fact that Zach and JJ should have started their own "I Hate Gathan" club, but JJ is the Classic Snobby Little Rich Kid, and I think Zach would be pretty be aware that JJ is just going to view him as poor white trash, even with a trust fund. (That he can't touch until 2010.) I don't think John is as snobby, but he's definitely going to be swayed into acting above Zach because of their history and around JJ. John comes off as someone who...I don't wanna say he "molds" himself into whoever he's around, but he knows how to read people and fit in accordingly. 2. True. 3. Blue is saying that Will's family and Zach's family basically think that Zach prostituted himself to Will and got a car out of it.

You COULD make JJ like that- I can see JJ being a miserly Scrounge. But more likely, I can see JJ as a guy who buys gifts to impress his friends, much like Robbie did. I wouldn't have been surprised if the swag bags for JJ's 15th birthday blow-out were absolutely ridiculous. JJ reminds me of this guy I used to talk to online, who was telling me about how he planned on buying expensive cufflinks for a guy he was just hooking up with. I don't think JJ would put a buck into the Salvation Army bucket, but he would do and buy anything to keep someone being his friend. Zach probably recognizes this, which is why Zach was slightly flirting with him. A gold digger can always recognize an easy mark. LOL. I think the thing about Tony is that he's a Cody trying to be a Max, and failing horribly. Meaning that he's someone who should be in open relationships instead of committed ones, but he tries to be something he's not. Not just a straight guy, but the guy who settles down and commits to a single person and starts a family, because that's what the Italian culture promotes. But it's not him even going beyond the straight thing, and that's where the tension is. I don't think it would suit Tony to get married and use a surrogate to have kids with his husbands when he's in his mid/late 20's, like I think is inevitable for Will. What I hope Tony winds up doing throughout the rest of college is to build up a group of openly LGBT friends who accept him for him, instead of the shallow losers he had as friends in St. Louis. Hopefully his soccer team will be similar to what we saw with Matt's hockey team in being generally accepting of him, as well.

Chapter 56 -For Tony and Will this chapter. "Beautiful Disaster" by 311

Dear god, if you had said this to Adam when he was my age, you would have gotten quite the earful. Geezus.

Right. If I can remember New Kids on the Block, you should be able to remember The Backstreet Boys.

Okay, so not Elizabeth Olsen for Marie. Damn, I thought I had that one nailed. Maybe Marie won't wind up as hipster queen as I thought. What about a young, natural blonde Olivia Wilde (The OC, Bones) as Marie? You look at young Olivia Wilde and know for damn sure that was not a girl hurting for boyfriends in high school, even before her nosejob. And she's always been kind of edgy and opionated. She was up for the Marissa part on the O.C., but did Skin instead. Kind of wonder what it might have been like if she had played Marissa instead of Mischa Barton. There's this rather hilarious clip where Olivia Wilde makes fun of Beliebers on T.V.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAE-yThHKdw She won me over with that one. I now want her and Emma Stone to team up as wisecracking sisters in a movie.

Cross-Currents is a real story, though. The author has owned to it being real. There were guys who did say no to Andy. Adam just wrote about the ones who said yes, which seems like it came about 6-8 or so guys. Out of a team of probably at least 30-40 guys, that's not that huge.

Kevin actually has really nice ones, but you can only see one leg. Anyway, I remember that photo got my puberty racing back when I was 12. You were too young to get the appeal of the Backstreet Boys.

JJ Theme Songs: The Fame by Lady Gaga and Applause by Lady Gaga He's very on, for the most. I knew people who were like that- kind of like a male version of Rachel Berry from Glee. Ironically, I don't think JJ will be into Lady Gaga when she comes on the scene in 2008-2009. He strikes me more as being a Katy Perry type- more mainstream pop. I could see JJ liking Britney's Circus era, also.

Well, if these guys were about 35 and looked like Aaron Schock or Joseph Kennedy the III, THEN I could be really into it. (Thrown in Scott Brown as their house father.)

Damn it, I thought it was going to be a gay porn frat story.

This was so dead-on and I loved how much it captured about the experience. 28 Ways You Know You Went To A Performing Arts High School Some things they missed: 29. If you were in a school production, you were able to get out of class on the days they had school matinees. 30. Rent and Wicked were referenced by people ad nausea. 31. Being that the school was 1 guy to every 3 girls, if you were a fairly good looking straight guy, you were suddenly the school stud. 32. If someone walked into school wearing drag, you wouldn't be surprised. 33. If you found two guys or two girls making out, you wouldn't be surprised. 34. If your teacher or high schoool principal was openly gay, you wouldn't be surprised. 35. You didn't know it wasn't normal to randomly break out into a song until you went off to college.

It'll be interesting to see if that changes as Will gets older. He very much sees things in black and white, probably even more than Brad did as a teenager. Hopefully as he grows up he's start to see the grey and stop thinking that people are either all right or all wrong. I think Will really does believe in social justice like Tonto did. I just don't think he's been around enough to really get it. I would have thought that the homeless shelter might have been enough for Will, but if you noticed, he only really related to the guys that were cute and he was attracted to. Maybe Will can do a semester abroad in Haiti or something in college and get some real perspective on the whole thing? Or spend a spring break working with Habitat for Humanity? It really was an eye-opening experience. And my friends who did their study abroad in a 3rd world country said they were changed forever. As for JJ...I feel like you're setting him up for an eventual classic "rich snob meets blue-collar hottie and falls madly in love" story with all the bits about how elitist he is. If said blue-collar hottie looks like circa 2006 Channing Tatum in Step Up, I'm all for it. LOL. I'd recommend the same kind of character building volunteer work/missions for him, but I really can't see JJ doing any of that. Will, yes. JJ- his idea of sacrifice would be shopping at the Claremont Outlet Shoppes and actually wearing an outfit from there.

My vote would be for Chris Mears. I'm probably wrong, but damn it, they're so cute together.

Yeah, you wish.

Thanks for the comments, guys. They mean a lot. I hope you guys got a 3-dimensional portrait of Steve, and that he seemed real to you. I didn't want this to come off as a typical eulogy, full of platitudes and niceties. Because that boils Stephen down into some 2-d, stock character instead of the very complicated and very real person that he was. I'd never met anyone like Steve in my life before, and I don't think I'll ever meet someone like him again.

That is an incredibly good and persuasive analysis, and I'd love to read Claire saying as much to Will, similar to how Claire chastised Brad for his rant at Jim in Millennium. I really want Mark's thoughts on this, because you're pointing at something that kind of contradicts what Mark has set up as a "truth" to Will's character- that while he and Brad are both massive control freaks, the difference is that Will is a massive control freak about himself, and doesn't try to interfere/control other people's lives.

Well, James, Daley is technically on the bisexual team. So, go bisexuals!

I hope you got that my "shocked" comment couldn't have been more sarcastic.

Okay, so this isn't exactly about CAP, but I thought it brought up themes that we've talked about in terms of JJ, and how he needs to maintain a family-friendly, Disney image because those who don't (like Johnny Weir) often get punished in the sport. Joe Jonas: My Life As A Jonas Brother I thought it was interesting- the tension between being a teenager/early 20-something and all the hormones and urges that go into that age, and having to seem like a sexless, purity ring type because that's what your adoring public expects out of you. It was funny that Joe all but said, "I lost my virginity at 20, but my virginity was incredibly technical", which often seems like the case for the "abstinence" types. It also got me when he talked about having to be around watching his friend Demi Lovato implode on herself, but not being able to convey any of it to anybody because he had a "brand" to protect. It'll be interesting to see what happens to JJ when he moves into the 17-19 range...right now he doesn't seem to be chafing against the "good boy" image all that much yet (we haven't seen JJ so much as drink a beer yet), but I wonder what happens in a few years.