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I feel like this is the risk when you have Irish twins like Jeremy and Will. They can be really close because they're going through all the same milestones at nearly the same time, or they can be combative because one always feels like the other is hogging the spotlight. Darius being 3-4 years older than both of them makes him the perfect buffer. LOL

Damn. All I did for Halloween 2005 was puke my guts out in front of the lacrosse party house because I was stupid and 19 and did tequila shots. (I was dressed in a failed Jeff Probst costume that absolutely no one got. Or it could have been a soldier costume. I will do multiple costumes sometimes.) As for Will, I can't picture someone LESS suited for modeling than Will. Models need to be able to maintain a still pose for hours upon hours while somebody directs them on how to move.

Good point. His background is middle class Brit who's Dad made his money writing a soap, so he wouldn't really have that old money vibe.

What do you think of Tom Blyth as a possible Wade fancast? (I had Tom Blyth in mind as Young Mark Arbour, but he didn't seem to bite on that one.) He does uptight yet charming as hell really well.

Knowing the Matt character, I think he'd have an existential crisis about not being included in the young whippersnappers comment. LOL

This chapter really reminds me of how much things have changed. When I was this age, there was SUCH an emphasis on putting a spotlight on gay men that didn't fit the stereotype and were like, football players or some such thing. it had a whole air of, "Look, there are good gays too, not just the effeminate ones who prance around in dresses at Pride parades!" I don't think that gets feted as much anymore now that gay marriage happened. I vividly remember watching the Brian Simms video around 2009 and being both thrilled that he was an athlete but also feeling a bit let down that he had the gay voice. LOL Although Heated Rivalry definitely wouldn't have been the hit that it would have been about two effeminate men, so I can't say that the whole "masc4masc" thing isn't still very much here. We did have a whole era of the Timothee Chalamet "twink" thing that seems to finally be fading out so who knows if the whole masculine brodude thing will come back in style again.

Chapter 19 -When Will and Austin destroy the other team. "Run It" by Chris Brown -When Will and Austin and their team steadily build a fanbase. "It's A Long Way to the Top" by AC/DC -When Travis and Will explain their relationship to Austin. "More Than Words" by Frankie J I'm really not a fan of this cover, but it feels right. LOL

Apple is already waaaaayyyy past the "get in on the ground floor" point in 2005.

Chapter 18 -When Will meets Austin, another blond surfer god. "Surfer Girl" by the Beach Boys When Will and Austin click at volleyball. "California Soul" by Marlena Shaw -When Will struts after owning Finn at the LGBT club. "Rip Her to Shreds" by Boomkat I've actually really agreed with you about this. I think Will probably would have had a better time at UC San Diego. I also think that pretty much the only places that Will was going to consider were Ivy League schools, because Will wants to impress JP THAT much. I feel like Mark is really firm on this, and I get it from a character standpoint. I also think it's good for Will to experience living on the East Coast for a few years before going back home. It's sweet that his homesickness is being manifested by Austin. LOL

A year after Katrina (so circa September 2006), I actually had a cross country teammate who transferred in from Louisiana. I was talking to him about it. I said something along the lines of, "Instead of rebuilding the 9th Ward, I think they should all get relocated and the area should be turned into marshy wetlands so they can use it to absorb water for future floods." Colin looked me straight in the eye and said, "You are an unimaginable asshole." LOL No but seriously 20-year old me had that idea in my head because a neighborhood in my area was bought out after it kept flooding. It was a 50's development that had been built on a filled-in creek area. By 2003, a big tropical storm happened and it was kind of the final straw for the residents. They were bought out by the county (or state?) and the homes were demolished. It's back to being a wetland again. The whole ordeal was pretty much burned into my memory because my bus route went through that neighborhood so I'll never forget the devastation and the signs of people begging for a buyout. I imagine Katrina was like that, but times a thousand.

Funny how schools vary so much. My college everyone pretty much left the dorms after freshman year. The only reason why I lived in a dorm as a junior was because I was a transfer. As this point I don't think UD even HAS graduate student housing now. They don't try to expand housing on campus despite the continually increasing enrollment (they'll replace the amount of beds but not expand it) because it's easier to just let the developers build up student apartments/townhouses around town. Then when I attended IUP it seemed like a much higher percentage of students stayed on campus instead of moving into apartments (if they weren't Greek as the school had a pretty big Greek row), probably because the surrounding town was much smaller and it was a much more isolated area.

Jeremy is basically Luke Hemsworth. LOL Imagine being stuck as a short guy with 2 brothers that both clear 6 feet. LOL (Darius is 6 foot even while Will is supposed to be 6'2". Poor JJ is stuck at 5'6.")

With the help of a nice woman that was very familiar with figure skating, I actually wrote out a career timeline for Jeremy that would have taken him out to the 2006 Torino Olympics. It was a lot of fun. I get why Mark yanked Jeremy's figure skating career in 2003, though. It really was time consuming, and it didn't really involve much of the family aside from Tiffany. It also allowed Mark to take Jeremy into his romcom New York City adventures, which has been fun. I think Jeremy was generally good about not head-casing. He won that because he was able to manage a clean skate while everyone else did a splat. He probably wouldn't have worked as well in 2020's figure skating because there is so much concentration on quads. I could see Jeremy as being similar to Jason Brown- lots of grace and panache but not actual power, and no real chance at the Worlds/Olympic podium. He might have been served by switching to ice dancing. If I remember right, Jeremy WAS trying to add a quad to his program, which ended in disaster and the end of his career. LOL Although it would be funny to picture Jeremy right on the cusp of a gold medal and fucking up this badly: I remember one Olympics where a figure skater was basically right on the cusp of a gold medal (I think Hanyu?) but he messed up and he got dropped to 2nd. The fact that Ilia messed up so badly that he wasn't even on the podium totally eclipsed that.

Chapter 15 -When Will glamorously drops almost 200k on a new car without a second thought. "Sussudio" by Phil Collins -When Travis is content with his trip up the coast with Will. "A Summer Song" by Chad and Jeremy I swear to god I always want to put 1960's/70's songs with Travis chapters. LOL -When Will and Travis enjoy themselves with Jeff and Cody. "Lay, Lady, Lay" by Bob Dylan

So in my job search to enter the legal field (either as a receptionist, a paralegal, legal assistant, etc etc) I had my resume redone by some nice paralegal lady I met in a Facebook group. Only I'm a little worried that she fluffed it up a bit too much. I'm trying to get it peer-reviewed on Facebook before I start posting it to Indeed. I've kind of taken a break the past couple of weeks from applying but I'm trying to get myself back into it. My goal is to at least get an interview before the one year anniversary of my graduation pops up- I'm already at 6 months. Yikes! It's been pretty frustrating although this time around, I have a job while I'm looking for one. It's not fun to look when you don't have one.

Where do you think those LA girls were from? I'm guessing wherever the aspiring actors of the 2010's go. I had a classmate from high school who tried to get into the business and lived in Burbank for a couple of years before she gave up. It's really funny that nowadays, you get actors telling you NOT to move to LA because you're better off getting signed to an LA agent but sending self tape from wherever you live. (And hey, check out my acting Zoom class!)

As much as Will is like Brad and aspires to be like JP, that's not really a line he's willing to cross.

I just say S.F. That feels fair. And then I think instead of Cali you're supposed to say Cal. Anyway, this is making me want to post my two all-time YouTube favorite videos about California. I'll do one NorCal and one SoCal. It's interesting to compare and contrast the stereotypes of the two videos to see what they say about the culture of their respective cities.

I guarantee at that age I would have described a hot 32-year old as a hot older guy.

This sounds like a closing argument in an acrimonious divorce battle. (Not that divorces ever actually go to trial, for the most part.) Although I would guess you could use that for a talking point during negotiations?

Oh, okay. Good. I was so confused for a moment. So we can imagine that Julian became a first-time father in his mid-40's from his mid-20's wife.

I used to talk to a guy who has a sexual relationship with a guy he's known since they were kids. They both are married to wives, and each has 2 teenaged sons. The wives have known about the sexual relationship since before marriage happened, and they encourage their husbands to be with each other because otherwise each guy just isn't fulfilled. These two men have a friendship that just needs to have a sexually intimate component to it. They've tried to not have it, and go back to being just platonic buds like they were for most of their adolescence, but they're so far beyond that it's impossible. About 15 years ago, when they were each in their early 30's, they had a bit of a crisis because one of them was talking online to an 18-year old and became infatuated. And the 18-year old at one point came close to visiting with him, and it really tore him up because he knew he could get the permission of both his wife and his bro-mance to engage in an affair with the young adult. But he made the decision to cut off contact with the 18-year old, because at the end of day, he felt like he couldn't honor the commitment he made to both his wife and his bro-mance if he had gone through with it. When this was all unfolding, I was about 25-26 years old, and I didn't quite get why "Aaron" couldn't go through with meeting up with "Ben" if "Alan" and "Colleen" would be okay and understanding of it. But now, I think I get it. Commitment is a personal thing that you have to work out within yourself and decide if you're meeting that commitment or not. I think both Travis and Will feel committed to each other by their own view of what commitment means.

That totally escaped me. No wonder Jackson always seems to refer to her as Lara and not "Mom." I just figured she had Jackson at like 18.

Don't change, Los Angeles. Don't change. "I've been married three times and I know this is it. I know it is." Well, yeah, you're nearly at the end of your life expectancy and she's going to be duking it out over inheritance with your son (who is her age) and daughter before she sees 50. Although to be fair, if Robby Benson ever showed any interest, I would so be there. Talk about a heartthrob that aged exceedingly well:

Ooh, I figured out Jackson's mother- Natascha McElhone from the Truman Show and Designated Survivor.