methodwriter85

I feel like re-living the 80's right now...some songs to get me started... 1. You Can Call Me Al- Paul Simon 8. Just Like Heaven - The Cure It kind of pisses me off to think that such a great song was denied being number 1 by that horrid George Michael tune, "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me." Ugh. On the other hand, this song has remained far more relevant than the latter, so yay!

I loved that JJ basically didn't want to go but got forced into it anyway. When I was 15, I had to be dragged to family functions, too. Although it's surprising JJ isn't a N'Sync fan- I'm betting he's probably a BSBer all the way through.

I loved the mentions of N'Sync, the Harry Potter movie cast, and Josh Hartnett. Josh Hartnett was soooo hyped in '01, same as Jude Law. Jude Law didn't really deliver though he's worked steadily, while Josh seemingly dropped off the face of the earth after 2002. I kind of thought that buying an entire house for a single teenaged guy was a bit ridiculous, but then again, the rich are different from you and me. It's not like Will's going to piss away his trust fund on stupid stuff- two million for even an unfinished house in Hawaii with a view seems ridiculously cheap. According to good ol' Wiki, Maui got hit with a big housing boom until about 2007, so the home value will probably double or triple in a rather short time. As for the other stuff, I loved the thought that 15-year old JJ had to be verbally dragged kicking and screaming into going to the Bastille Day party. That's my boy. LOL. I'm kind of shocked though that JJ isn't a big N'Sync fan- maybe he's more Backstreet Boys? (I once got slammed into a locker by a senior boy for saying N'Sync sucks. LOL.) He grew up around too many girls in skating for him not to have picked up on the boyband thing.

Chapter 16 -When J.P. describes the excess that Stefan's going to in order to make Bastille Day a success. " Moulin Rouge was hands-down my favorite movie of 2001. -When Will is clued in about the party by Darius and JJ, and cackles over the fact that Marie is going to miss seeing N'Sync perform at Escorial. -When Will decides to invest in real estate. Cent, I'm sory, but 2000-2001 was a pretty huge period for Destiny's Child. I really can't ignore that. LOL. I once remember this Communist e-friend going on a rant about this song. I think I actually joined the Young Communist League email list for a bit. LMAO.

I think the one time I did Tequila was Halloween '05. Never again. I'd be safer drinking Jungle Juice.

Does this mean we'll get characters named things like Addison, Jayden, and Aiden soon? I think it's funny when similiar sounding names become popular at the same time, like the Aiden/Jayden thing, and the Madison/Addison deal.

Yeah, I gave the whole thing a little more thought, and figured that since 2000 and 2001 were still "culturally" the 90's, it's not that big of a deal to have Will still saying "the bomb", especially since he's not really supposed to be an uber-hip and edgy guy. I did hear though that some 70's slang made a comeback in the early 00's, like "clutch" and "boss". Burn=insult was also going around, likely because of That 70's Show. What are good emerging subsitutes and the like for "the bomb" for this time period? I didn't start hearing "sick" until about 2003, but I'm also from Delaware. LOL.

Yeah, University of Delaware with room and board costs a student about 25k a year...12k if you don't live on campus. (40k if you're an out-of-state student who lives on campus.) I lived at home for most of my time at UD, and when I went there, tuition was about 8k to 9k for in-state students. College tuition and board costs have wwwwaaaaayyyyy outpaced inflation.

Blue, were California teenagers still saying things were "the bomb" in 2001? I just feel like 2001 is a little late to still have Will saying things are "the bomb"...it feels more like 1995-1998 slang, not slang still being used in mid-2001. You could argue that because Will is younger his slang might not be as up to date as it would be with college kids, but he's around college kids so that doesn't work. I've heard people saying things were "bomb-ass", but "the bomb" is something I haven't heard since middle school. I just want to know if people agree with me before we start phasing out "the bomb" from CAP character slang- if that term isn't out now in mid-'01, it's gotta be gone soon. I don't remember hearing that in high school, period. Things were "beast" and the like, but no longer "the bomb."

Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) as Mouse? I do picture Mouse as having this kind of effeminate, oddball beauty to him.

Chapter 15 -When Will recounts his teenage drama with Brad, and admitting that he doesn't even know if he wants any kind of relationship with Tony. -When Will gets into a "surf" war with a native. -When Will gets into a near-fight with the guy who was actually supposed to be his driver. We're at the height of the Poppy Punk era, which was then replaced with the Emo era circa 2005. I used to think Hot Topic was soooooo cool back then. It's kind of fun to re-visit the days when I used to listen to Poppy Punk albums and wished desperately I could be cool enough to hang out at the Grange with people that were actually punks. Oh, for the days of bleach, Manic Panic, and massively baggy cargo shorts.

On Day 3, I continued going through my box of Memorial Day photos. I found a couple of pictures of Governor Tom Carper (D, 1993-2001), which made it far easier to nail down a date for that set. For Day 4 (this past Friday), the volunteer manager had myself and another volunteer go through cataloging basics. Even though I've already done cataloging, I appreciated the refresher. Plus, as I've learned, every museum does things different- a true universial standard for cataloging doesn't really exist. I really like the collection we went through yesterday- the donater had brought memorabilia pertaining to his mother's, father's, and his own days at the University of Delaware (the late 1930's/early 1940's and the 1960's, respectively). It was really cool to see the mother's dance cards from all these dances from circa 1939-1941, complete with little pencils. That was back when University of Delaware had a men's college on the North Green, with the women's college on the South Green, and back then there wasn't as much interaction between the men and the women of the school. It was also interesting to realize that this was just a few years before most of the male students would drop out of Delaware to go fight in WWII. As for the 60's, I found a 1962-1963 student code of conduct book, as well as a lot of student athletic schedules. There was also a sideline pass for a UD/Rutgers game, which was interesting, because I don't think Rutgers and UD play football against each other anymore. There was also an interesting UD magazine that talked about the plans for building Morris Library- I cannot tell you how much time I spent in that library when I was in high school and college. It made me think about how UD seems to be on a constant building spree- since the 1950's, the only period where there wasn't constant building would be the 1980's, when the number of college-aged people contracted sharply. Right now UD's on a major building mission, but it makes me wonder what'll happen when the baby bust of the late 1990's and 2000's starts to hit colleges. The memorabilia made me wish I could've gone to school in the 1960's, though- we found a booklet that listed tution for the entire academic year as being $1,120. You can't even go to community college for that anymore! LOL. All in all, it's really nice using my skills again, even if I'm not getting paid for it.

True all that. So, Mark, what do you think of my MaryEllen idea? Am I on the right track? I keep thinking, 'Needs to look like a pretty rich bitch'. As for Tiffany, I'm thinking either Kristen Bell: Or Evan Rachel Wood: Pretty blondes but with an edge, not sugary-sweet girl-next-doors.

After having friends who were good-looking, that's been my general observation as well. Good looks don't necessarily mean happiness, but they do mean eager sex partners. It doesn't really change until guys hit about 24, 25.

Well, I meant butch as in Kristy McNichol, still-an-attractive woman butch, like Justin Beiber-like way, not in a FTM trans way. (We actually had an ultra-butch, "we're pretty sure she/he's taking testerone" lesbian working at my dining hall once. It was interesting.) I'm not sure Hank could get THAT far on the butch side- she's in a pretty conservative profession, and while looking like a tomboy is probably fine, I don't think day-to-day people in mainstream Jersey society would be okay with her if she bordered on looking like an FTM, especially since we're talking 13 years ago. Since we're on the female side right now...here's another idea I have for MaryEllen, Wade's bitch of a sister. David Cassidy's daughter, Katie: She's usually blonde but went brunette for her role in Arrow. She tends to lean towards playing bitchy characters- that's why I thought of her.

Alright, if we're going to go really butch...Dani Campbell, the lesbian contestant on A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila: It was really funny though when Justin Beiber first came out...my thoughts were, "Wow, he looks like Dani at A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila! I think Dani was a volunteer firefighter, so not that far off from being a cop.

I agree that Mason isn't really an ideal candidate to do it, unless he winds up transferring colleges. I really thought Shane Jackson was going to turn out to be using Will in order to sabotage JJ, but it didn't exactly turn out that way. Other than the obvious reasons, it's a shame that Shane died. He was going to grow up to look like this: Anyway, I wonder if Mark's going to give JJ a new fictional big rival to play off against or if we're waiting for when Johnny Weir, Evan Lysacek, and JJ are vying for titles as senior skaters. Hmm.

I don't think Billy is muscular enough for Mason. He needs this overwhelming prescence where, when you see him stand up, you're shocked that he's short. It's funny you say that, because the woman I picked for Hank pretty much plays "butch" in most of her roles. Anyway, thanks. Rashida Jones is pretty gorgeous. This is basically my image for what Jeanine looked like when she had Christmas 1985 conception sex with Brad: In this picture, Rashida is REALLY rocking that tough but sexy 1980's slicked back hair/lacqured red lipstock look, ala the models in . I see 1985 Jeanine with that look. She doesn't strike me as someone who would have dressed like Madonna, or someone on Dynasty. Her '85 look would have had some edge.

I see Mason as 2012 U.S. Men's Team gymnast Jake Dalton: Damn, those eyes are sexy as fuck. Mason's body is described as being very similiar to a gymnast kind of body- muscular with very broad shoulders, but short.

Mason seems like he's kind of where Matt Carrsworld was in Bloodlines- knowing he's pretty much gay (or close to it), but also being from a family where it's not acceptable because white-collar kids from upper-class families are expected to get trophy wives and continue the good family line. My guess is that we're supposed to see Tony in a similiar way we see Robbie- someone who's massively fucked up in how he treats people he's supposed to care about, but who we forgive because we know deep down there's a good heart there.

Thanks. I kind of figured it'd be popular with Tony's friends, since you've described them as being somewhat redkneck, good ol' Southern boy types, so eh. 2001 was a better year for music than 2000 was, so I'm enjoying this.

And it's a little weird that he thinks that way, given how close he was to Gathan the Ultimate Bisexual last summer. It's not like Will hasn't been introduced to the concept. From last chapter reviews... Will has an incredibly good bullshit meter. You can argue Tony, but the truth was that Will has not been around Tony enough to get a real "feel" for how he interacts with people- the first significant vacation with Tony was in the city of love with Rome, and the second "alone" time experience didn't exactly end well. Will is not naieve or trusting enough to buy into a Neal, who frankly wasn't that good at fooling people. If anything, you've setting JJ up for that happening somewhere down the line. It's been established that JJ is not good at being able to read people. I can see JJ having Robbie's trait of thinking that you need to buy things for your friends to get them to like you, and unlike 1985 Robbie, 2005 JJ would have the kind of money to be able to do it. As for this chapter...floating sounds like fun. Over by here, there was an event where people would get smashed while in boats anchored in the Chesapeake Bay, but that unfortunately got 86ed.

Chapter 14 -As the float trip commences, and Will becomes increasingly irritated with Tony. -When Will and Mason have some fun, and Mason invites him to his lake house. -When Will tells Tony that he's going off with Mason to his lake house. -When Will and Mason get it on at Mason's lake house. -When Will tells Brad about his Tony epiphany, and his plans to go to Hawaii. Blue, I really hope you've appreciated my effort to put in a little country music. St. Louis strikes me as the kind of Tea Party area where country would be rather popular, so I really looked hard at circa 1999-2001 country music. (Well, except for Garth, who is timeless.)

I think she's become more likeable after marrying Jay Z, but yes, there was a time when I really despised Beyonce Knowles. Unfortunately, you can't really ignore her- if you count Destiny's Child, she had a top 10 hit in every single year of the 2000's, and her career was unquestionably hot from 2003 (Dangerously in Love) to 2008 (Single Ladies).