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The Phillies win the 2012 World Series! Woo!!!

Mark is forcing me to review early/mid-2000's slang. I need to start using "chill" and "beast" more again. For reals.

His ass isn't much, though. The Mannings both have some great badonkadonks. I love me a nice badonkadonk.

Well, not the Stone Temple Pilots, but I agree about that. Blurry is a great song. Modern rock definitely took a backseat to hip/hop and R&B for the 2000's. I checked- on the Billboard Top 100- in 2003, there was only one non-hip-hop Number 1 single. And that single would be Clay Aiken. So yeah. 2004 had no non-hip-hop/R&B singles at 1. The hip-hop explosion at the time is probably why the teachers at my prom had to force in some non-hip/hop songs into the playlist. Seriously, you go to a school dance at this era and you will hear nothing but hip/hop. And the dancing will consist of the girl shaking her ass in a guy's crotch, or two girls doing that with each other. That would be called "grinding" or "freak dancing." 36. "In Da Club" by 50 Cent, 2003 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ0-JA6K0Dw Everywhere in '03. EVERYWHERE. I'm picturing 16-year old Will and his friends, riding to the beach in their fully tricked out SUV's, blasting 50 Cent. 37. "Hot In Here" by Nelly, 2002 Like, seriously. Is it even a question there's going to be a scene in '03-ish that would fit "Hot In Here"? The only person in that family I can't see that song being appropriate to would be JJ, and it's doubtful he'll get a lead story before around '06 or so.

Day 7 January 27th I finished sorting through Box 8. Now I'm working on Box 10. Day 8 January 31st Going through Box 10, I found a manual for young officers. It was from 1907. I know that George Watson was born in 1881, which means he would have been about 26 years old when he got that manual, and presumably became an officer in the army. It was interesting to think about that- I'm 26 years old, and I just can't even imagine what it would be like to have that kind of responsibility at my age. As part of the advice for the new officers, I found two quotes I thought were interesting: "DON'T, if you are well off, perpetually boast about the largeness of your purchases. Nothing is more offensively vulgar than telling people "what you gave" for this or that, and the chances are that you are only advertising your own folly or guillibility." "DON'T set undervalue on pedigree or family connections. NOBLESSE OBLIGE should be your patrician motto. Remember Lord St. Leonards' answer to the snob who reminded him that his father was a barber. "Had your father been a barber," was the rejoinder, "you would have been a barber too." There is no need to declare yourself a born gentlemen, if you behave as such." I wonder if that means that officers at this time in history were often from well-off, rich families. Nowadays, people don't really associate the social elite with the army, so it's interesting to consider that at one point this was a popular career path for American blue bloods. Day 9- February 1st I continued working on Box 10. While there, I had a conversation with Colleen Camp, and the other intern, Amanda Peters, about historic preservation. The Clark House, which is where part of the historical society is located, has been under the threat of demolition quite often. It made me think of my own experience of being from suburban Delaware, where historic preservation for everything not belonging to the du Ponts is an uphill battle. Newark, Delaware constantly tears down older buildings to make way for the new, or they "preserve" buildings by gutting the interior and leaving only the facade. It's one thing I really like about Indiana, PA- you can see all these older buildings.

35. "Get Busy" by Sean Paul, 2003 Seriously, how does this song not make you wanna get up and dance? What a tune. I'm the class of 2005, not '04, but god, I gotta say this is really good practice for when I help plan my 10th year reunion in 2015.

Hey, Mark, I found this Youtube video of footage from the Windows on the World restuarant shot on September 9th, 2001. Pretty incredible. God, that view just must have been incredible. I've been in a similiar kind of restuarant in NYC, but of course it wasn't that high up. I think it was the Marriot Marquis, which is only 49 floors high. The mention of the MJ special and the MTV Music Awards made me think about people who were saying just how much fun was going on that weekend in NYC, with the weather being "last days of summer perfect" and so much going on.

Well, you gotta remember, Mark, the 2000's were to me what the mid-70's to mid-80's were for you-i.e. teen years and the first half of twentysomething. So this decade profoundly shaped how I view the world. You gave me four contemporaries in this story, so it'll be interesting to see how the events of this decade shape them. Plus, since you're obviously planning on doing more than two or three stories for this decade, you'll need to mine the source material a little more than you had to when it was just two stories a decade. Luckily, with the exception of years like 2002/2007, a LOT of stuff happened in the 2000's. Good point. I was thinking Tony was going to get married young and get a girl pregnant as a way of proving to himself that he's not gay. Joining the military after college would work just as well. Maybe he and Darius join together in '04 a year into the Iraq War? Tony definitely wouldn't be the first guy to join the military to prove he's straight.

My question is...Nick Zano...wouldja?

-Stefan recoils in horror the first time he sees an emo boy, and immediately offers a total makeover. Ditto for hipsters. -Will travels the world after he graduates from college, and runs a v-log where he documents all of the different coastal reefs throughout the world. (That would actually be really cool.) -John Hobart and his friends dress up as the Duke Lacrosse team for Halloween '06. When Claire gets wind of the Facebook photos, she rips John a new one. (The lacrosse team at my college seriously dressed up as the Duke Lacrosse team. It was hilarious and awful at the same time.) -Tony gets married when he's 22 to a woman, has three kids by 2012, and frequent "fishing trips" with his buddy John from work. -Courtney gets into the Twilight Craze, prompting Robbie to invest in the movie adaption in 2008. I'm thinking Courtney will be Team Jacob. -Will gets hit on by Daniel Radcliffe at some Harry Potter premiere party -JJ sets up a twitter account to document his attempts to break into acting after his figure skating career stalls. -Ryan and Will enjoy watching episodes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy together. LOL.

Will's hook-up with Tony in chapter 15 of Paternity: "Electric Feel" by MGMT When JP reads Jeff's suicide note in 1968: "Creep" by Stone Temple Pilots

I'm assuming JJ won't see parties until he's about 18 or so. It'll be funny to see him get "corrupted". The kids who wait until they're in college to go crazy always tend to over-do it. Meanwhile, by the time Will actually hits college, I'm guessing he'll be over ragers. He'll be more of a, "let's throw a low-key bonfire party with a few intimate friends and get drunk while someone plays the guitar" kind of party guy, while I'm seeing JJ as a New York City club kid once he's past caring about looking pristine. Will's going to be all, "been there, done that" at 21, while JJ's going to trying hard to make up for lost time. Kinda like my friend Stoner Stever. He was so over college parties by junior year, and meanwhile I was doing everything I could to keep up that 19-year old college freshmen excitement about parties. Over in the Reviews, Mark wrote: Are you saying you and your Generation Jones co-horts (i.e. The Kevin Arnold "Dazed and Confused" generation) didn't expect your parents to be consistent in how they parented? Really? I thought that would be a classic expectation, not a generational one.

The fight was pretty great. Will's bit about being perfect made me think about JJ. JJ's entire life revolves around being the perfect little figure skater. Bitchy diva or not, he still pretty much follows all the rules and stays away from even the slightest bit of rebellion. As such, would Brad or Robbie even really pay attention to him? Why would you need to pay that much attention to a kid who pretty much always follows the rules and doesn't do anything that you'd need to get bothered about? I've never seen a scene where Robbie even interacted with JJ, and the one and only time Brad actually interacted one-on-one with JJ was back in December 1999 in Millenium. That'd be almost a year ago in CAP time. Jeanine's out of commission, Tiffany's gone, and JJ can only really be around Matt so often. The kid pretty much doesn't have any kind of support system. I am so glad that Brad and Robbie are finally getting shit from their kids now that the dust's settled after the events of Millenum. They so deserve it.

You can't act all Mr. Buddy Dad and be lax on your kid, and suddenly try to act like the disclpinarian when the kid's already 14. Children call bullshit like that immediately. Anyway, it's weird. I really like Will in this story. I think it's that he's more like a 9th grade kid here than a 20-year old guy in a 14-year old body. The bit where they sneak into the party really reminded me of when I would hang out with college kids in 10th grade, and how mature and awesome I felt because I had. And later on, when I was in college, how much we laughed when we saw obviously high school kids sneaking into parties.

Chapter 15 -When Ryan and Will hit up a sorority house party. -When Will and Tony sneak out to have sex. -When Ryan tries to game a college chick and gets cockblocked by Carl.

Now that we're starting to mention JJ's career, it's going to be hilarious to see how his handlers try to make JJ not seem like the bitchy diva he is, and seem like a humble orphan and All-American Boy Next Door saved by Christianity. I think they'd do something along the lines of Evan Lysacek, but at the same time push the whole "JJ is an orphan" deal because Brad Schluter does not exactly have a Disney-friendly image. And Jeanine going off the rails is convenient in the regard of making JJ look like a orphan. (God, I feel so evil and calculating in saying that.) If they were smart, they'd have JJ call Brad "uncle", pretend Robbie doesn't exist, and have JJ cozy up to Blonde Republican Trophy Wife Claire as his adoring aunt that's basically like a mother to him. It'd be freaking hilarious if they made JJ visit a cookie factory like they did with Evan. LOL. (I seriously wish I could find footage of that.) Tim n Blue, what's a really incredibly wholesome and really SoCal thing that JJ could do that would say how wholesome and clean-cut he is? Right now I'm thinking JJ visiting Disneyland with his cousin Courtney because it'd be all, "Look at JJ taking his adorable little cousin to Disneyland! What a fine, upstanding young man, who's way too concentrated on his career to even think about having a girlfriend!" But I'm sure you guys could think of something even better, more saccharine-sweet, and uniquely Southern Californian.

Brad and Robbie's song, circa Man In Motion. "More Than This" by Roxxy Music Bitty's Theme Song, Man in Motion "Live to Tell" by Madonna I wanted to use this soooo badly for the scene where Bitty admits that JJ's father is Jim Crampton, but that scene was set in December 1985 and this is an 1986 song. Argh.

Adam, you'll never going to be old. You'll always be 18 years old in heart. I do cherish that about you- that you never forget what it was like to be growing up, and you were able to relate to people going through adolescence. As for labels...I mean, it can be limiting, but only if you don't go beyond the label to find the person behind it.

It's been three years since I've given a blowjob so I've forgotten what it's like. LOL.

Yeah, like I said, I only really posted the second one because I thought the guy was cute. I have a thing for good-looking older men in their 30's. In 'n Out just seems pretty cool because they actually give insurance to their workers, use free-range cattle beef, and don't abuse the heck out of the environment the way Mickey D's does. They have Five Guys out in California now? Hmm. I know that they're trying to bring Capriotti's subs out to Los Angeles now...I wonder if they're there yet. Mmm...a Bobbie... I'm just going off the HW article I read about Coachella. It seems like it'd be just about the right level of "badness" for JJ to want to partake in, without getting in major trouble. In other words, a perfect senior skip day trip. Of course, it's not like Will couldn't do both. I really wish I had gone into the rave scene when I was 15. It just seemed so cool and fascinating, going from all the stories I heard. Unfortunately, all I did at 15 was sit at home, watch Buffy, post to I Hate Jen and Fanforum, and write Dawson's Creek fanfic. Ugh.

If I were going on how Tony is now, I think he'd be likely to go back to the St. Louis suburbs after graduation in '04, get married to a high school sweetheart from Catholic school, have kids before he's 25, and then have "fishing trips" with his best friend that he made from work. I'm not sure Will would fit in well with that. Of course, the character can change, but that's where I feel like his path would be right now if he doesn't change. I do actually hope that Mark doesn't have Will settled down in a "soulmates" relationship like he had Brad and Robbie settled down in. It'd be more fun to see both Will and JJ play the field in their 20's rather than be in serious "we're meant to be together" relationships like he did with Brad/Robbie, and seems to be doing with Matt/Wade. Since it looks like Mark's going to do a story for every year in the 2000's instead of skipping over a few years, the story field needs to be keep more wide open.

As part of the current "Shit (Blank) People Say" Youtube craze, L.A. got the same treatment.... I liked the IN-N-Out part. If I ever get out to California, I'm so going there. I heard In-N-Out is even better than Five Guys. And the Coachella bit was funny, given our past discussion. LOL. My favorite part was "A ticket? Are you kidding me? This is bullshit. I'm taking a picture." I have a friend from high school who moved out to L.A. and posted a picture of her parking violation to complain about getting a ticket. LOL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq2hsAsskig&feature=related This one isn't as funny, but the guy in the video was pretty cute.

As someone put it, in the right circumstances, you can get a straight guy to let you give him a blow job. But he's not going to want to marry you and settle down in the suburbs with 2.5 kids that you procured courtesy of a surrogate. I mean, it can happen, but it'd be extremely rare.

I don't know. I guess I was going by the whole, "let's bring back Brad's dead stepfather's son and hook him up with Brad's son!" deal that made it seem like the whole thing was going to be a soulmates deal. If Tony was a totally made-from-scratch character with no ties to the canvas I'd be more inclined to think you were going to set them up as just hook-up buds. And good point, by the way. Up until my mid/late teens, I was pretty uptight and kind of repressed. Then I learned to be Mr. Cool Laidback College Guy. So I can see how they might not wind up control freaks after all.

It's been a blast being part of your team and seeing what kind of crazy-ass scenarios you'll come up with.