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Chapter 47 -When Will begins his latest wave of slut adventures on the plane.

We already have our Will, basically a green-eyed version of Sean Faris(I picked him out in 2009), so this is Will: But I think Matt Bomer totally looks like Lou. (The one currently living in Canada as a news anchor, and played Matt's boyfriend at the country club to piss off his parents.)

Interesting insight. According to Julian(who graduated in 2007), they were incredibly strict about students who wanted to pursue acting, but then again, you would probably miss more school due to being in a movie or something than you would if you were off on a modeling shoot for a couple of days. JJ needs to miss at least 4-5 weeks of school, so I wonder if that would be pushing it, or what kind of arrangement they came up with. I'm kind of surprised JJ doesn't have a private tutor working in tandem with Harvard-Westlake. I wonder if Mark's going to clear up JJ's academic situation with HW, since these chapters should have at least some focus on JJ since he's the reason they're actually in Norway. He hasn't really said anything about what kind of student JJ is; the general impression is that he's not quite as dedicated as Will, but like Blue said, there's a lot of range there. I really hope Mark covers that at some point during these chapters; it would make the most sense to do so while we're learning more about JJ.

I love the contrast that you're setting up here with Will and JJ- Will being the easy-going slut who gets to have fun, with JJ as the tightly wound virgin with nothing but winning first place on his mind.

We shouldn't be surprised, though. This is Will Schluter, Mark's new Golden Boy character. He loathes to write Will having any consequences for any of his actions and anyone who calls him on his bullshit is just a big meanie who doesn't understand what it's like to be a poor, misunderstood 14-year old rich boy. I mean, the kid breaks the rules at his float trip and gets rewarded by the headmaster with a week-long trip to Norway, despite the fact that we know HW is supposed to be pretty strict about attendance, because the headmaster apparently worships JP. (I love you, Mark, but you know I'm right on this.) Anyway, my favorite part of the chapter was the exchange between Will and Tiffany, where she tells him that it's not being gay that's the problem in figure skating, it's being openly gay that's the problem. Daisy told me that Mark really nailed it with that line- that image is basically everything in this sport, at least for American skaters, and "gay" just doesn't fit into the "family-friendly" image of the sport. At least not in 2000. I wouldn't be surprised if they wind up getting Shane Jackson a "girlfriend", like they did for Evan Lysacek. Given that Will's a Schluter and it's in his nature to try and fight against oppression and prejudice(see: Tonto), I can see him trying to fight against that, at least a little bit, especially if he winds up becoming more involved with the sport past this trip. What will be interesting to see as he grows up will be whether or not JJ will try to join Will in going against the USFSA, or if JJ will just accept the status quo because he doesn't want to jeopardize his career pathway towards the Olympics.

I was watching the Olympic Diver trials, and damn, divers have some sick bodies. I wasn't planning on watching diving, but given how hot I found Troy Dumais, I'm totally going to! Who else is looking forward to the Olympics?

I love how Simon Cowell's eyes are so clearly flashing with dollar signs when Louis starts singing. (I like his face the best.)

Happy birthday!

Hmm. Max is pretty cute.

I don't know, I think JJ Schluter handles himself pretty well despite being pretty much ignored by his two dads. But seriously though, I do think community service at a retirement home would be seriously fitting. I'm a believer in it.

LOL, dude it's like 6 weeks. Having vacation days would be silly.

Thanks, that sounds pretty interesting. If you've ever read Confessions of A Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim (of Nellie Olsen fame), she goes a bit into the AIDS epidemic. Her on-screen husband died of AIDS in 1986, and she got really into AIDS activism because of it.

Isn't this more of a soapbox kind of topic? In any event, it is interesting the amount of hate that Ronald Reagan gets from the gay community. There's a definite perception that Reagan didn't do enough to stem the tide of AIDS in the 1980's because it was a "gay disease."

Well, that's not entirely true that characters need to explode...JP, Marcel, and Wade aren't explosive characters. But I don't know- JJ's been described as a diva with a performer's temper. I don't see how JJ doesn't wind up exploding at some point- explosive tempers are pretty much the norm with diva types. At this point though, I think JJ likes to sit back and laugh his ass off at all the mayhem that Will is causing, enjoying the drama from a safe distance. He doesn't put himself in the middle of drama- I think JJ will make insinuations and try to piss people off, but not enough that his ass would get beat. Then he runs back and hides behind his Mommy. As for squeaky clean, I'm kind of thinking this Norway trip is a way for Mark to explore the behind-the-scenes debauchery that can go on in figure skating, but he's using Will as the guy to go through it rather than JJ because he recognizes that JJ being a late-bloomer would kind of make it out of character for him to suddenly start banging skaters left and right. Mark's giving JJ time to grow up first before he plunges JJ into that kind of stuff. I'm sure JJ will wind up making up for lost time when puberty actually does hit, circa 2003 or so. Although...hmm. Mark's never had an asexual character before. That could be interesting- someone with an asexual orientation in a family as randy as the Schluters. The asexual guy here was actually cute, I thought. Kind of interesting that he was a cute 23-year old guy with no interest in sex. Almost unimaginable.

Right. Tim is used to private schools, where the rules can be forced a little more effectively because the student body there is actually paying to go there, and they generally want to be there. Public schools are in constant threat of getting sued in a way that private schools are not. I mean, seriously- a teacher called a student "pathetic" and rude, and she gets suspended. You really think the bus monitor could have done or said anything to get them to stop? BTW, the money is up to 578k now. Damn. She doesn't actually think she's going to see that money, and I kinda gotta agree with her, but it's an amazing gesture nonetheless.

My middle school days were in the long ago days of 1998 to 2001, and yeah- I got shudders watching that and remembering just how incredibly evil most people are at that age, myself included. By around 11th grade most kids grow out of that kind of stuff, but in 7th/8th grade? It really is kill or be killed.

Ha, I came across the internship promotion video that I made last summer when I worked with the Delaware Museum of Natural History. It was a lot of fun, really, of all the internships I've done. I think it helped that interns were really allowed to interact with one another.

I don't know though- the tight pants were kind of nice. Did you see Ben Affleck's ass in Dazed and Confused?

Aside from Mike Vogel, I could totally see Ryan as Hunter Parrish. It depends on if Mark sees Ryan as having a rounder face, like Mike Vogel, or a long, angular face like Hunter Parrish. You really have a thing for blonds, don't you Mark? I think the majority of characters tend to be blonds. LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufS3iibRXaM&feature=related Fans are fun.

I don't really crush on anyone, but I will say I totally won't object if Nathan89 wants to post more pictures of himself. I'm a sucker for that boy-next-door look.

Word. I saw a news story about a school teacher who was filmed berating a student, and people were calling to have that person fired. Yes, I'm sure that 5-year old did absolutely nothing wrong. Right. The bus monitor's hands were tied. You can't do anything but just roll your eyes and not say anything.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/rays-turn-back-clock-uniforms-party-1979-213700184--mlb.html There's something funny about doing a 70's throwback uniform when the team didn't actually exist in the 70's. You gotta love how American that is- if you don't have a history, make one up!

I just remember that, for whatever reason, guys around Delaware started wearing longer hair again around 2003 and the short spiky look went bust, so I kind of figured that longer hair might have been around with surfer guys in California a few years earlier than that. (I tried to do the longer hair thing because I wanted my hair to look like Adam Brody's on the O.C. Did not work.) But eh, I'm deferring to you guys on this one. It'll be interesting to see what the consequences are for Will, because while Jeff will be annoyed, I can see Michael coming back with scorched Earth.