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I had to post this picture, because it is one hysterical example of a very specific aesthetic from this time period. This guy on Reddit posted a photo of a really bad resume he made, which included a full-body shot showing off his 2004 fashion sense: Basically, I would call his look "The Gay East Coast Raver Who Posted A Personal Ad on Planetout." I can't see any of the CAP people coming near someone with this look, but seeing this photo jogged memories of AOL chatrooms and gay dating profiles. Seriously, you could drop this dude off at Shampoo in Philly circa 2004, and he'd fit right in. This also made me think about why people were willing to pay over a hundred dollars on jeans that were completely ripped up. I never bought into the distressed jean trend, but wouldn't the fact that they were already distressed give the jeans a pretty short shelf-life? I do think the Adidas throwback look was actually pretty cool, though. I wish I could have worn them, but my feet are too wide so I had to stick to New Balance. Edited to add: This was also a popular look for Eastern European dudes, too.

Chapter 36 -When everybody decides to roll on X. "Move Your Feet" by Junior Senior -When John's band performs lame covers of popular songs. "Ignition" by R. Kelly "Get Low" by Lil Jon -When Christian performs a song from a hit Broadway show. "Ladies' Choice" from Hairspray I knew a kid who tried to be Link in a dinner theater production of Hairspray. I'm going to admit that I pretty much avoided the musical because I didn't think it was going to be nearly as good as the '88 original. Then I saw the movie version and it wasn't half-bad, which means the actual musical must have been something. Which you can see this Wednesday on NBC as the 4th annual Live Musical event! -The party continues. Christian gets complimented by Daniel, who then drops the guy as soon as John saunters up. Leaving Christian alone for Will to move in. "Get Busy" by Sean Paul

Well, the 2016 Thanksgiving weekend is upon us...I guess my biggest "Thanks" is for the fact that I'm in generally decent health and I'm still gainfully employed, even if I'm not making too much. I pretty much worked on Thanksgiving morning, and then I went over to my Vegan Sister's house for a Vegan Thanksgiving. It wasn't too bad. Then today my mother and I cooked dinner for my other sister, who brought her family over. We were able to facetime with my sister and niece who live in California. It was fun and generally low-key. Right now I'm listening to some mid-90's music ("Crazy Life" by Toad the Wet Sprockett) and just thinking about the Thanksgivings when we were all kids (or just barely out of that) and we all basically lived together. Twenty years ago, back in '95 or '96, we all (me, my mom, my 3 sisters, my oldest niece, and a verging-on-ex husband of my oldest sister's) lived in this townhouse. I remember it being pretty fun- the turkey refused to cook because it was frozen, but we sat around and had fun and watched Winona Ryder "Little Women's" and played Monopoly after dinner. That was such a huge thing for us. I miss that- everyone's kind of scattered off into their own thing and own lives now, and beyond that, Sister 1 and Sister 2 aren't talking over some dumb-ass issue I'm not going to get into, and we basically had this split Thanksgiving because of it. And my mom's 70 now and I'm realizing more than ever that I probably won't get decades more of memories with her, and some day making Thanksgiving dinner with her is going to be a memory that I'll have to hold on to and cherish because she won't be here. Maybe before my 30's are out. But yeah, I miss those Holidays. I really do. I guess you just miss childhood in general, but I think back in that time, we had managed to come back together after the absolute hell that my dad had put us through. He was gone, we were all living together, my oldest sister was doing fun things like taking us to the zoo or the movies while the Smashing Pumpkins or the Goo-Goo Dolls played on her car stereo, and there wasn't all these adult concerns and adult worries and adult squabblings. A great Christmas present (I think mine for that year was a Goosebumps ice cream machine) and everything in the world was perfect for a moment. I don't get those moments any more. Of course, things weren't perfect and I'm definitely looking through things with rose-tinted glasses (my mom's gambling addiction was still there, we could barely afford that townhouse, those 3 sisters still fought quite a lot, and the oldest sister was basically on the verge of dumping her first husband), but I still wish I could spend a moment back in Thanksgiving 1995/6. What are some of your happiest Holiday season memories from your life?

Eh. I feel like it. Enjoy these alternative rock tunes from mostly the mid/late 2000's. 1.) 3.) 4.) 5.) " 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) "There's Nothing Like You And I" by the Perishers 10.) 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) " 15.) " 16.) 17.)

So sad. R.I.P.

Another picture of my idea for a pre-teen Maddie, 12-year old Millie Bobby Brown: I could totally see the Jeanine that Mark described back in Man In Motion having a daughter that turned out like a cool, kind of punkish type tween/teen. I do hope that Maddie is rebellious as hell and gives Will a heart attack or two.

So over 40 million people decided to hand over control of the country to a racist, homophobic, sexist xenophobe who starred on a realty show. I fucking blame the DNC for failing to connect Hilary with the voters. Just disgusted. Completely and totally disgusted. I think I'm done with caring about politics. May God help us through these next four years. Or actually, may god help Trump when the working class straight white males who voted for him realize that he isn't actually going to bring back manufacturing jobs.

Back to the Future didn't account for the 1994 strike, so they're actually right!

Jimmy Garoppolo (Patriots second-string football player) as John Carullo? You can't get much more classic Italian-American hunk than him. He also just gives off a friendly vibe to him. I can just picture him being the friendly giant, kind of sloppy roommate to his fastidious roommate in some updated version of The Odd Couple. I really was loving that storyline. I hope that if Mark feels like he can resume the story, we'll get more scenes with Carullo and JJ.

Robert Rustler in Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Hot in that lithe 80's kind of way. Brian Geraghty in When A Stranger Calls (2006): Super-cute in that boy-next-door kind of way. He was actually like 30 when he did this role, but he had a babyface and was able to pull off being a teenager. I was totally shocked when I looked him up on IMDB after watching the movie and found out he was born in 1975. Age caught up to him, but he's still a pretty cute guy. I'm not usually into blonds but I just love that cute little Irish-American face of his.

LOL. I'm 30- the point is that would be more unique if I was a guy born in the 1940's or 1950's with that name. It might be different outside of the U.S. Jeremy peaked as a baby name in the 1970's and 1980's, which translates to meaning that most guys with that name will be in their 30's or 40's. I did actually run into an 11-year old boy last night with my name. Go figure. LOL.

This was a pretty fascinating data look at how U.S. names changed over the course of the late 19th to early 21st century, with names put in bubbles that get smaller or bigger depending on where the name is ranked. Here's the girls: Here's the guys: It was fascinating to watch my name- it basically came out of nowhere in the early 1970's, peaks as top 15 name in 1976, and then just free-falls out of popularity. Most of the guys with my name are in their early 40's now. I don't really meet little kids or old men with my name. I don't think I've ever met a guy in his 60's running around with the name "Jeremy." It's kind of rare to see that with male names- it feels like most parents stick to traditional names like Matthew, John, and Michael with boys.

I came across this pretty interesting question on Reddit, by a guy who wants to write a period piece about Los Angeles gay men in the mid-1990's. I wonder if Private Tim's still around? He'd probably have a lot to say about this. It was his "time", so to speak. All I really have to say about being gay in the mid-1990's would be movies I watched from that time period, like I Think I Do, Kiss Me Guido, Johns, and Bedrooms and Hallways. (Although they're not actually set in Los Angeles.) There was also this book I read called California Screaming. It focuses on mid/late 90's gay Los Angeles society, in a tale of a pretty boy who failed to make it big by 30, who manages to land himself a big media player. It's good trashy fun.

Millie Bobbie Brown as a 12-year old Maddie? Millie's coloring is actually pretty close to how I pictured Jeanine's (and her daughter's) being. I think Millie's supposed to have some Mediterranean blood in her, like Maddie. I do think she'd be one very cool, chic little girl like Millie is.

Wilshire Grand Tower is Now the Tallest U.S. Skyscraper West of the Mississippi Pretty cool. Los Angeles seems to be having a push towards building skyscrapers right now. Also of note is that it's the first skyscraper to be built in Los Angeles with a curved roof, after a 1974 law requiring all roofs on skyscrapers to be flat in order to have helicopters land on top was redacted.

I used Uber for the first time. It was pretty good, and I'll definitely use it again.

I wound up finishing.... I was already spoiled for this, but I LOVED that Nancy didn't suddenly start dating Jonathan and dump Steve. I liked that they allowed Steve to redeem himself. Maybe I just have a thing for tall lanky guys with a great head of hair. All in all, it was great. I liked that they wound up leaving up just enough to allow for a new season, but at the same time, they wound up answering the big questions. (If they had left Will in the Upside Down, I would have been PISSED.) I'm definitely in for a season 2.

I finally broke down and got Netflix so I could watch Stranger Things, which is kind of like an homage to 1970's/1980's sci-fi teen fantasy movies/books. It's about a nerdy group of middle school friends in small town America 1983, when one of the group goes mysteriously missing. Some big nostalgia factor- aside from being set in '83, it's also got 80's teen stars Matthew Modine and Winona Ryder. Winona especially turns in quite the performance as a single mom slowly but surely coming apart at the seams as the horror of realizing her son has gone missing. I'm on the 4th episode currently- it's been pretty true to the early 1980's setting other than some anachronisms, like playing "Hazy Shade of Winter", a 1987 song, or someone calling another person a "douchebag", which is more late 90's slang. I'm pretty thrilled by that- nothing's more annoying than watching a period piece where they completely bungle the setting and don't get it right, like 'The Carrie Diaries". But yeah, watching the show, they really get that "First-Term Reagan America" ennui right, with the girls in the prairie blouses and long tartan skirts and the guys in tight jeans and pattern/colored polo shirts and the way the cars/houses look. Still lots of traces of the 70's, but slowly fading out. The soundtrack has been pretty fun- they played one of my favorite songs...the melancholy . Anyone else watching it?

If you're not Michael Phelps or Simone Biles, nobody gets covered.

Kevin living in a suburb of the Frat Life- I dug that comment. Mainly because my freshmen year of college, I really was pretty much living adjacent to frat life. (Then I switched over to hipsters sophomore year- talk about a change!) But as much as you might feel as if they're your friends, you're never really quite one of them. I remember having some friends who were pledging a sorority and they were stuck wearing this awful purple sweatsuit and pigtails the whole week. One I'm pretty sure depledged. Although my school was very small, and Greek life didn't have nearly the kind of money that they seem to have here. I do get a kick out of how much in (non-gay) love Chris Baker seems to be with Becker, with Becker not even realizing it.

Not much else I can add but just say that this has been one hell of an 8-year ride with you, and a lot fun. If the ride ends now because you need to take care of yourself, I'm still one hell of a happy man. You don't owe me, or Sharon, or anybody else anything but to focus on getting well.

Has anyone seen the new McDonald's commercial running during the Olympics? It's absolutely brilliant. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lj8pQR_pkU It works on so many levels- the music, the father/daughter relationship, and 1980's Gen Xer nostalgia. It's such a cynically brilliant love letter to the "children of the 80's" generation, who've mostly taken over as the parents to school-aged kids.They did a great job with creating that mid-1980's "feel" in a way that didn't feel overdone or underdone. The house and the car especially felt spot-on for Reagan Era America. Kudos to the little boy playing the child of the 80's. He really did a good job with giving the paternal vibe even though I'm assuming he didn't actually film with his "daughter." It's been a while since I've seen an ad this good. Whoever did it, I hope got a great raise out of it.

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This selfie has been burning up Reddit, and it made me think... Claire and Marie Hobart? Ava really is the best ideal combination of Reese and Ryan facial-wise. Speaking of Ava...are there any daughters on the horizon, Mark? That's going to be a hot baby name. I can totally see Wade wanting to name a daughter something like Ava. Very old-school and throwbacky.

New PSA about the Los Angeles River: I wonder how much Blue would have to be bribed before he'd splash around in the river.