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I'm going to think outside the box of what I've been thinking for when it comes to Tony i.e. buff Italian guy with a smoldering hot face...Sal Mineo had a sweet Italian boy face with a buffed out buddy, and he was the face for Sam. So thinking in terms of "sweet Italian boy face" with a rocking body...John Deluca from Teen Beach Movie? He does look like a believable soccer jock, which Tony was supposed to be. I could also see why you'd trust him on looks alone. Tony hasn't been described in great detail, just that he's got a great body and typical Italian boy looks, which makes me think that his face is probably somewhat generic.But still, overall a really hot guy. John Delucca just looks like that protypical Italian-American boy-next door type, with a face you feel like you can trust.

As someone who's afraid of heights, that road would scare the ever-loving shit out of me.

Yeah, the old version is fun in a campy early 80's way, but the remake is something that stands up well even today. It's got more of a classic feel to it- I could see the Shaggy remake being a hit today. Reggae never really gets old. I'm pretty sure I used "Angel of the Morning" for a Be Rad pick.

I don't really see how it's a contradiction. It's not about Will being too immature to settle down. It's more about letting Will figure himself out what he likes as he gets older. Plus, the things you're attracted to change quite often. When I was 15, I found punk/skater bois to be the hottest. At 25, I started finding 30-something preppy suburban dads hot. People change. Just because Will is more mature than your average 15-year old doesn't mean he won't have a different viewpoint(and things he finds attractive) when he's 25. I'm sure when I'm 35, what I'm attracted to will change again. I will say though that I did think it was being set up for Will and Tony to wind up soulmates- it's such a common soap trope for legacy characters to wind up together, especially if you have the kind of backstory that Tony's dad and Will's grandfather have. But I'm not so sure about that anymore. All that said though...I'm kinda rooting for either Jeff, or someone that we've never met. If Will settles down young like Jack and Claire did it's going to make things so boring.

Will's in 10th grade. Let him at least be done with high school before we start thinking up lifetime partners for him. There are a lot of ways to be accomplished without having a college degree. While I can't see Will with a stupid guy, I think Will would have a broad view of what "accomplished" means.

This is a pretty long read, but still pretty damned funny. Whole Foods Employee Hilariously Blasts Company In Resignation Letter Delaware has been longing for a Whole Foods for a long time, but I'm now totally glad we don't have one yet. "A faux hippier Wal-Mart"...damn. I think anyone who's ever worked a McJob in food would really get this. Retail is still pretty bad, but not quite as bad as the food industry.

When I was a teenager and furiously counting down to the days when I would turn 21, I tended to think of myself as the next age whenever I got about 8 or so weeks within it, so Will and everyone calling him 15 makes sense to me. His birthday is in less than two months. It's like when I called myself 17 and a half, and the guys I said that to said, "You're still young enough to go by half for your age." You want to be older until you're 21, and then you start dreading hitting the big 3-0. The Malcolm stuff made me wince a little, but I'm not cringing as much as I did during Poor Man's Son when Will was still 13. JJ at 15 would make me cringe if I read about him hooking up with a guy in his 20's, but Will at 15 doing it doesn't feel as cringeworthy because I don't really think Will is getting taken advantage of by the 20-something guys he's hooking up with. There isn't this power differential going on- it's not like Will is some innocent kid being seduced by his teacher or his coach or anything.

Lucas Grabeel as Jake, the amoral mistress that led to the break-up of JP and Sam in Be Rad? I have Jake pictured as a nerdy but cute blond guy, with a disarmingly sweet face. I think it's hilarious that the guy is 28 and can still pass for high school. Man, that's "raw", as Mark would put it.

On the other hand, the fact that you can buy a Apple products without having to pay any taxes on them makes it worth it, right? The Christiana Mall area is trying to turn itself into a mega-shopping area on the order of King of Prussia- hence them adding a new anchor, a new movie theater, and a new sister shopping center. Hence all the road contruction to try and handle it.

Delaware traffic is rountinely awful. This is what happens when you're a suburban state who builds strip mall shopping centers for out-of-staters while not having the taxes or the room to build sufficent roads. The worst though is summer beach traffic on Route 1: Route 1 is my most-hated route, as they are always crowded, and the interchange between Route 1 and I-95 by Christiana Mall is going through construction as they add fly-over lanes and the like.

This whole episode reminded me of when I was having dinner with my frend and her boyfriend at his house. They told me that the grandfather had lost his voice box from cancer and had to use a tube to speak- they just wanted to prepare me for that. In any event, I really liked that you brought someone in with a major disability. That's not something any of the characters have really dealt with, barring JP's friend Fritz being castrated and paralyzed in Vietnam.

I liked including Kai's dad. I don't think Mark's ever had a character dealing with someone who had a major disability before- there was Fritz, who was castrated and paralyzed in Vietnam, but he killed himself rather than living with it.

Chapter 23 -When Will has some dirty sex with Malcolm. "Oochie Wally" (Dirty Version) by Nas Ft. QB It's really convenient that Will's horny teen years are coinciding with the rise of dirty, sexually graphic hip-hop songs. -When Will realizes that Kai is caring for his very sick father. "Will I?" from Rent -When Will and Kai have sex, after Kai lets Will get to know a huge part about his life. "Angel" by Shaggy ft. Rayvon I was waiting to use this one. Definitely one of my favorites from '01.

Here's a big one: IPods were released on October 23rd, 2001- so a little late for Brad's 39th birthday, but I'd bet anything this family would have the connections to get them a couple of weeks before they went on the market. Maybe Claire would get one from Jack on her 37th birthday? Jack, Brad, and Robbie seem the most likely to have them first- IPods were first popular with older adult consumers. Because they were only compatible with Mac and pretty pricey, they weren't really that popular with teenagers until later on, like 2003-2004. I remember the Ipod Nano being really popular with teenagers in 2004. It's pretty funny when you think that because of IPods, cd's are disapearing. But because IPods don't have the kind of sound that records do, records are experiencing a resurgence. Records might be the first obsolete technology that manages to replace what was designed to replace them.

There's this awesome article I just read, written by a 14-year old girl who took part in the protests against the Texas State legislature for the restrictive abortion laws that were passed. She held up a sign with her father saying, "Jesus Isn't A Vagina So Keep Him Out of My Vagina" : This is the article she wrote in response to internet trolls who've called her a slut: I'm The 14-Year-Old Who Wrote The "Jesus Isn't A Dick So Keep Him Out of My Vagina" Sign In Texas And Was Labeled A "Whore" By Strangers Online My dad came to my defense online, but for the first time I am outing myself publicly. I'm 14. Please stop calling me a whore. Tuesday Cain I'm a 14-year-old girl who has lived in Austin, Texas, my whole life. I like art, music and talking on the phone with my friends. When I grow up, I'd like to become a science teacher. I also believe in the right to choose and the separation of church and state. Or to put it another way -- to put it the way I wrote it when I was protesting at the Capitol last week: "Jesus isn't a dick so keep him out of my vagina." Yes, that's my sign. I came up with it last week when my friend and I were trying to think of ideas for what would get people's attention to protest the scary restrictions that are happening in my state trying to take away a woman's right to safe and accessible abortions. It worked. When my friend and I took turns holding the sign, one of the pictures of her went viral. Then my dad went online to defend the sign on Twitter and other online forums. That's when people started calling me a "whore." I'm going to be honest about what it feels like to be called that as a 14-year-old girl who has never had sex and who doesn't plan to have sex anytime soon. I feel disappointed. It's hard for me to understand why adults would be calling me this. It's hard for me to understand why anyone would use this term for a 14-year-old girl. It's not anyone's business, but as I said, I am a virgin, and I don't plan to have sex until I am an adult. But none of those facts make me feel any less passionate about fighting for a woman's right to choose and the separation of church and state in my home state of Texas. I also don't think this makes me -- or any other 14-year-old girl who agrees with me -- a whore. It simply makes us people. People who believe that abortion should be safe, legal and accessible for women. People who believe women should be in control of their bodies and should not ever have to put their lives at risk so that we don't go backwards in women's rights in this country. I know someone who has had a few abortions. She now says that abortion is bad and she fights against a woman's right to choose. This makes it all the more important for me to protest, even if I am only 14. In fact, my dad woke me up so that I could watch the Wendy Davis filibuster the night that she tried to prevent this legislation from passing the first time. I remember thinking that I was proud to be from Texas watching her stand up for what is right. That was when I told my parents that I wanted to join in the protests. I have seen anti-abortion protesters at a clinic near our house, and it makes me upset to see women who are facing this hard decision being told that Jesus condemns them. I guess I don't think it seems very Christian to me. Then again, neither does calling a 14-year-old girl a whore. The first day that we were out protesting at the Capitol, my friend and I took turns holding up the sign I wrote, and an older man came up to us yelling right in our faces. "You two should shave your heads! You should become lesbians! No man will ever want you! You're ugly!" The police had to ask him to stop yelling at us. It was scary. But more than scaring me, what it did was make me feel even more determined to stand up and protest even louder. I'm not going to let someone calling me a whore stop me from fighting for what is right for all women. I'm not going to let the bullies win in the fight over women's bodies. I read some of the comments online that people said about me, and I was so proud of my dad for sticking up for me and for the sign I wrote. After a certain point, I really couldn't believe some of the comments people were writing. One person said that my parents should be arrested for child abuse and in another unbelievable comment, someone suggested that my dad must invite all my friends over to "play abortion clinic." I'm done feeling disappointed by these attacks. That is why I'm speaking out -- even if I am only 14 years old. But the way things are playing out everything feels reversed. Adults are not acting like adults. Normally, I prefer to look up to adults as role models. But what is happening in Texas right now it's hard to find adults who I want to look up to. I don't look up to an adult who is taking away a woman's right to choose. I don't look up to an adult who is calling a 14-year-old girl a whore. I don't look up to an adult who is screaming in my face and saying I am ugly. And I certainly don't look up to anyone who says they are Christian but treats women the way I've been treated these past few days as a teenage girl. *** What an incredibly well-spoken young lady. This is someone who's parents did their jobs right- I know college kids who couldn't articulate their thoughts as well. One thing that she's learning from this is that "age" doesn't really equal wisdom, and that hypocrisy is always around you. I've met old people that were dumb little fools, and I've met kids her age who have impressed me with their profound wisdom. I wish I could be stunned that people who claim to love children so much that they want to save every unborn child from being killed could turn around and act so hateful towards a child, but I'm really not.

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.