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Holy hell, I'm so excited! This looks so good, and looks like they're keeping in a lot of things from the book. Awesome!

I really do wish Mark had signed off on my Theo James pick for Darius...*sigh* Hot damn that man is beautiful. Oh, well.

Dude, if you bring Brushfire to 2013, it loses the tension of whether or not Fitz could be found out and kicked out of the military. That was such a strong undercurrent to Fitz and who he was as a character. It's your story, though. Anyway, I did enjoy the hell out of the story, especially because I knew from the moment Fitz was introduced who you based him on, and just squealed with joy. I'm looking forward to American Honey as well.

I believe in scorn for people like Larry Craig, who hide in the closet and then vote for anti-gay legislation, or closetcases who gaybash. But I am sympathetic to anyone over the age of forty who remain deeply closeted for various reasons. Private Tim's generation (I'd say people born from the mid-1970's up to about 1981 or so) really was that first generation of gay men to benefit from the pain of the previous ones- though it wasn't perfect, the gay men that came of age in the 1990's like Tim did really were the first ones who could be open about their lives and still be part of mainstream society. I think it's looked down on because it plays into the stereotype of gay men as being slutty, AIDS-spreading whores who can't settle down and start families like "normal straight" people. It kind of feels like the acceptance of gay people into mainstream society comes with the idea that gay people can be just like straight people- masculine men good at sports who want to settle down with the white picket fence in the suburbs. Of course, your mileage may vary. I always told Adam that I think it's hilarious that he's one of the few guys who actually toned things down when it comes to his college life story. I've gotta admit I've curious as to what Andy Sharpe in Cross-Currents number would be. I gotta admit, I kind of hope that John winds up getting a lacrosse scholarship to Duke University, because it'd be hilarious to see his reaction to the Duke Fuck List: He'd be the class of 2009, so it's possible he would overlap with Karen Owen. Did you ever read JWolf's the List? It was basically inspired by the Duke Fuck List.

I always thought it was hilarious that Brushfire started out as a very short story that you were writting to get through your writer's block for Cross-Currents, and it's taken a 6-year hiatus and is now a period piece. LOL. I kinda felt like Tumbleweed Connections actually works as is...the story feels complete for some reason. I'm really looking forward to Remix, though. It sounds so damn cool.

I think Stefan would be that snobby. I don't think the rest of them would be that snobby, though. Remember, in the opening chapters of CAP, JP took Pete Gordon to a black barbeque joint in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Coincidentally, that area actually did have a black community so it was totally possible.) I especially can't see Will "Mr. Casual" himself being that snobby about it. If he was, he wouldn't be hanging out with Kai at his family's dive restaurant. Of course, according to Private Tim, this isn't really going to be a thing until about 2003. Anyway, here's a video about the gourmet food truck craze: If I were ever in Los Angeles, I'd really want to try out the lobster roll truck. It does make sense that Los Angeles, the giangto suburb that basically developed the McDonald's fast food way of life, is at the forefront for a new way at looking at street food on-the-go in the U.S. The one lady talking about how they launched their food trucks in Coachella made me smile a bit...I was at the new baby festival Firefly and I saw a plethora of gourmet food trucks there. I tried a mac n cheese cheesteak and it was am-a-zing.

The guy who did the After Happily Ever After video talks about himself: He comes off as a cool guy with a pithy sense of humor. Too bad he's straight. I would've loved claiming him for the home team.

That's pretty interesting, Tim. I think in Philly they probably hit around 2008-2009, because about a year after I graduated from UD (circa 2011) they apparently got Indian food trucks on campus. Then this year, at the 4th of July festival in at UD, I saw a really fancy, huuuuggggeeee-looking food truck. (It was seriously the size of a tour bus.) Although they weren't really selling anything gourmet there. But the general idea is there- the small food carts/trucks that sell hot dogs and Philly cheesesteaks are evolving upwards in some cases. I would generally see Robbie being into it because he likes food. A lot. LOL.

I used to follow him on Twitter, where his handle was Frankenteen. His tagline was "tall, awkward, canadian, actor, drummer, person." He just came off as a very sweet, very talented person. It's a shame.

I always thought it was interesting about what Mark said about his generation- that they dabbled in graduate school, but it wasn't quite the "you gotta do this" the way it's become for Will's generation, made easier with online degrees and no-frills satellite campuses. Brad settled down exclusively with Robbie from 1981 to 1984-ish, then again from 1986-1999, so it makes sense his numbers wouldn't be as high. Also, when Brad was a teenager in the late 1970's/early 1980's you didn't exactly ask guys out on dates. Will has the benefit of being unattached, being unusually good-looking and developed for his age, and growing up in a time and place where you really don't think you're going to get punched for asking a guy out. When Brad was 14, that was a realistic fear.

Chapter 22 -When Will blows Kai, and muses on how it's like he's dancing with his thrusts into his mouth. "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive -When Brad tells Will about the ups and down of his relationship with Robbie, and Will confesses to him about Tony's duplicitly. "Tenderness" by General Public -When Will goes over sexual history with Kai. "Liquid Dreams" by O-Town You gotta love the C-list boybands. You can tell they're trying to go for being N'Sync, but just can't quite get there.

Good point. He's not Luke Evans, who really does deserve to be smacked for being so "openly proud" in the early 2000's as a British actor, and then tried to run screaming back into the closet when Hollywood came courting for him a few years ago. Anyway...I've been thinking on Marie, and I like Taylor Momsen, aka Jenny Humphrey from Gossip Girl as her. I can just see Marie going from this at 14: To this at 17: Marie just totally strikes me as someone who'd go from preppy to full-on goth eccentric look just to prove how cool and different she is. I think everybody knew at least one person in high school or college that went that route.

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I came across , which focuses on the Just Checking Cheerios commercial that featured an interracial couple . I thought it was really interesting to watch- the kids just did not see what the big deal was. I had to admit that I didn't see why it was a big deal. I remember when I was in 8th grade, I knew a black girl and a white guy were dating each other and there were some raised eyebrows, but by the time I was in high school I really didn't notice any kind of qualms about interracial dating. I got that there would be qualms about same-sex couples, but I really thought interacial couples were old hat to people. It just feels though that over the past year there's been a rise in racial tensions in the U.S. There's this, the Voting Rights Act controversy, the George Zimmerman trial, the Paula Deen scandal, and the Big Brother 15 racist comments. It's been pretty eye-opening to watch and read about. I wonder what's going on with this- some are saying that Obama's re-election has been a charge to renewed racial tensions in this country. I feel nervous about it, like something big might happen soon, like the L.A. riots of 1992. Does anyone else feel this way?

Hey, there's something I'm curious about...when did the whole "gourmet food truck" deal become popular in Los Angeles? I know the trend is hitting huge right now in the Philly metro area, but I got the impression that it started over on the West Coast. It seems like Portland and Los Angeles were early adopters of that trend, at least according to the foodie shows I watch. There's something kind of crazy about the idea that you can get full-on gourmet meals from a food truck, but eh. I figure Robbie, Matt, and Will would be all over that. Not so sure I can picture Stefan or JJ into that.

I'm not sure I could see JJ as a vegan (Will or Marie actually seem more likely they'd go there at some point), but I can see some 50 Shades of Gay action going on with JJ. And you're right that Nick Schluter's kids are probably train wrecks waiting to happen, but neither of them seem all that fun. A bitchy diva trainwreck is a lot more fun than a dour nerdy trainwreck. Tiffany is never going to get into power struggles with Wade and Matt about parenting Riley, because they were pretty clear on the boundaries at the outset, and Tiffany isn't someone they can just steamroll over like Robbie and Brad did with Jeanine. I'd love to see Wade even try to let Riley do something that Tiffany says he can't ala Brad and Jeanine regarding Will. There's also much more mutual respect between this trio of gay men and their lesbian baby mama as opposed to Brad/Robbie/Jeanine.

Austin Mahone Talks About Being Seen As the Next Justin Bieber It really does make me laugh when I think that some things remain eternal- no matter how big of a star you are, there's always someone younger and cuter waiting in the wings to take your place. I do think Justin Bieber is showing signs of becoming a major mess over the next couple of years.

Today I came close to finishing the inventory on my final box before going into full-on processing. This box was one of the easier ones, as it mainly consisted of dated photo albums- so far ranging from 2009 down to 1979. One really cool photo I found was a 1981 photograph of then-Senator Joe Biden. I've seen a lot of photos with Senator Tom Carper (he was also governor of the state from 1993 to 2001), but I had never seen one with Joe Biden. Dude still didn't have a full head of hair even 32 years ago. Beau Biden must have lucked out either by not having the gene, or having really good hair work done on him. The 1981 photo album also had a pretty cool view of the old pedestrian bridge that used to exist over South College Avenue- it was brown and round-shaped, and it connected Smith Hall to a patch of grass on other side. Students called it the "Gerbil tube". It was replaced in the 1990's with a much more physically appealing white pedestrian bridge, and the patch of grass was built into Gore Hall in the late '90's. I also found a Guest Book that covered events going from 1979 all the way up to 1990- it was cool to see a guest book that was actually completed. I also really enjoyed finding the 1985 Photo Album, and thinking about how that was the summer my mother was pregnant with me. There's just something awesome about going through old photographs to me.

That would be so boring, though. This generation needs at least one trainwreck in it. Darius and Will are too self-assured for that. JJ has a lot of angst coming his way so it seems like a natural fit. I could see Tiffany being that way, though- it'd be interesting if Tiffany was very much "no junk food, no processed food, no T.V." mindset when it comes to Riley, and Matt and Wade rolling their eyes at it and secretly letting Riley have ice cream behind her back. It would make sense for a coach to be a fitness nut.

I agree totally, especially once he finally catches physically to his age and non-creepsters start noticing him. (I feel like you've been telegraphing that one since JJ was about 5 and Stefan described him as being handsome but in a slightly effeminate way.) There's no way that won't bump up JJ's vanity, as opposed to someone like Will, who became "hot" at a very early age and just takes it for granted that people are going to notice him when he walks into a room. JJ isn't used to that kind of attention, and I think when he finally starts getting it, it'll probably become a bit of addiction since he's already an attenton whore. Plus, let's face it- he's in a sport where appearance IS a pretty big deal. Not to mention, it's a sport where you literally are old by the time you're 25 because of the physical strain it puts on you. And if I'm right about JJ getting closer to Robbie, he's going to be exposed to Hollywood's obsession with youth pretty-hardcore when he's growing up. I'd be shocked if JJ reaches his 25th birthday without getting Botox. (Unless he really changes his character trajectory in his early 20's.) I do see JJ avoiding tanning like the plague and being addicted to Bronzer/mystic tanning as an alternative. Fair skin doesn't age well if you don't take care of it, so I can see JJ being "preventative" like that. (Have you guys ever noticed that naturally blond/redhead guys tend to wrinkle up pretty early? See: Alexander Skarsguard and Michael Fassbender.. Both very hot, but you'd never mistake them for under 30.) I can see JJ bitching sooooo hard about turning 25. While he's on a 3-day bender and coked up to the gills. (By 25 public image won't matter so much since his figure skating career is done by then.)

That sounds about right. Robbie should probably be getting his first Botox injections right about now. (2001-2002 was when Botox seemed to explode, if I'm remembering correctly.) I wonder if when Matt's in his early 30's he'll write long and insightful blog posts about how he's fighting against the ravages of aging and mourning the loss of his 18-year old jock metabolism. (But at the same time realizing that he wouldn't trade his 30-something life for anything.) He'd be 33 in 2013 so that could be interesting. As I've said before, baby-faced politicians usually aren't taken seriously, so it's to Wade's benefit that he doesn't look young for his age. I can't see it being a big deal. Probably not Will, either- although if we're supposed to go by Brad, Will is going to look no older than 25 for a long time. JJ's a question mark- he could be like Wade and have the same idea of wanting to look old for his age, or he could be the 25-year old who injects Botox. (Which does happen.) Although I'm thinking JJ's going to have a babyface and be cardable until his 30's. (Not that I would know anything about that. Ugh.)

Did you star this because the boy is only 17?

I mean, it all really does depend on where you're at and who you talk to, but you're right about that. I'm what Carrie Bradshaw would call a "Schmoe 'Mo", so I'm not really comfortable around the high maintanance gay types. As a result, I wasn't really part of the gay scene at UD, who were mostly the clubby guys that'd go up to gay clubs in Philadelphia. But when I went to a podunk town a hour west of Pittsburgh, I found a much more relaxed environment of gays there. Because really, you can't put on airs when you live in a podunk former mining town-turn-blue-collar-unversity-town. That's a wonderful attitude to have, but I imagine it's not an easy one to attain, especially if you're someone who did indeed fit the standard and then started aging out of it. I did like If It Fits for dealing a little bit with how Stefan felt about no longer being the hot young twink that everyone's after. I mean, of course, he's still considered "hot" in CAP universe, but aging is still something that's not pleasant for either Stefan or Robbie. And I felt like Millenium really got into the aging issue- Robbie feeling insecure about his aging, which got compounded by Brad still looking like he's about 27 instead of 37, and having the still-young Matt around. And how would Brad deal with hitting 50, which is usually when even the young-looking guys finally start hitting the aging wall. Would he get plastic surgery to deal like Stefan did, or would he just deal? I would imagine Robbie in 2013 being pumped up with Restylane and Botox. I wonder if the CAP series will last long enough that we'll see how Matt feels about entering his 30's. and if he'll share the freaking out about getting older that his father did. I can't imagine Wade giving a shit, especially since in politics it's actually to your advantage that you DON'T look young for your age, because then you get taken more seriously than if you were baby-faced.

After watching the racist bitch known as Aaryn Gries on Big Brother 15 (seriously google her- this shit's unreal), I have to realize that I was wrong about MaryEllen not being plausible. You can apparently be an openly huuggggggeeee bitch (Not Regina George's nice-to-your-face-bitch-behind-your-back bitch) and have hangers-on and followers. Blue was totally right about that. The sorority bitch types I knew in college have nothing on Aaryn Gries (and MaryEllen). I must have just been in nicer colleges.

At the rate we're going, 2013 in CAP would be about 2025 in our time, so Stef would be 80 by the time we read about his 68th birthday.