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Good one. I like it. It's weird being 28. I remember I used to mercilessly tease Adam about his age when I was 22 and he was 28. It's so strange to be on the other side. (Well, not in his case, as Adam as now 34.)

It's a little over a week since my good college friend on November 29th, and I got it confirmed to me on November 30th. I'm past the intense feelings of sadness, but it's interesting to learn that I've apparently got a lot more grieving stages to go through. The last 'sad attack' hit me when I was walking around KMart, and the sad version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" came on. It's really strange how unpredictable this stuff is...I thought that I'd go to the bar we hung out together at so many times in college, put on "I Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd, and I'd have a good cry...but...nothing. Maybe a little tearing up, but not what I expected.

That's not true for everyone. For me, a kick-ass breakfast would be Belgian waffles, a side of bacon, sausage gravy biscuits, along with pineapple and cranberry apple juice. Anyway, I really do hope Austin turns out to be a better friend than Noah was. I like that Will can have a hot male friend with whom there's no sexual tension...I always kind of figured that was part of what ruined his friendship with Ryan. The whole thing reminded me of when Tommy Hilfiger's daughter was on a show called "Rich Girls", and she got frustrated because she couldn't figure out how to make a burrito. At 18. I'm not kidding. It's weird to me, because I figured out bacon and eggs when I was 7 or 8. I figured that was a basic even the biggest non-cook could do, like spaghetti or hamburgers. Maybe he'll learn how to grocery shop when he goes off to college and learns that dining hall food is really disgusting? I remember Target becoming my friend that first year of college.

Chapter 57 -On the jet ride to Hawaii, where Will is convinced that he needs to have a boyfriend to show up Darius, and Austin agrees to pose as his boyfriend. "We've Got It Going On" by The Backstreet Boys -When Will enjoys his new sex room. "Dancing With Myself" by Billy Idol Can I just take a moment to say how fucking gorgeous Billy Idol was in the 1980's? Man. Simply beautiful, in a cruel, sneering way. -When Will and Austin try to hook up, but realize that at the end of the day, Austin just isn't programmed for it. "Girls and Boys" by Blur

Yeah, I thought it was really unfair to compare it to the movie. It's a live performance which means you have exactly one shot to get it right. The only flub I ever noticed was Liesel saying, "May I have my first taste of champagne? No?" Which should have been, "Yes?" Everyone in that product clearly put 200 percent into it, and I hope the fact that 18.5 million people watched it means that NBC will try this again. You gotta admit though, Adam...Rolf was hot. And a good singer. And really hot.

Given that Evan Lysacek is going out for the Olympics, JJ COULD be preparing for those. But I'm towards JJ being retired by 2010 or 2011.

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.