1: He seems to have enjoyed prom night.
OP last almost brings a tear to the eye, just like the Kevin Smith 10 year anniversary taint tweet.
4: There's no way that was Arnold Gelbstein!
This was surprisingly easy to find the actual comment:
@MrFrenzy718
2 years ago
I was 13 when this came out . Jr high school prom , my date and I played this in the limo the whole night . Shortly after we had our first child (yes we was 14). 27 years and 5 kids later this song takes my wife and I back to prom night 93! Love you Baby couldn't see my life without you ❤️
The linked article is great.
One of the most moving YT comments that I've seen was on a Jimmy Buffett song (I don't remember which one). Somebody wrote (from memory), "I've been listening to this song for 50 years. I always wanted to take a trip to Key West to see it for myself. At this point, I don't think that's going to happen, and I've made peace with that. I still love the song."
"I didn't pull out then and still haven't. "
I am ambivalent about the length of the substack piece. On the one hand, it's pretty perfect as-is, and any additional information would probably detract from that.
On the other hand, I want to know more about Irene!
I couldn't believe anyone ever felt that way about me. I never knew I inspired anything like that.
But she was apparently married! Maybe still is! What was her husband like? Is he still around? Does she have kids?
I bet there's a sequel, though.
The bit about "the unrequited crush, never expressed, lives on and on ..." Not sure if below is requited or not, but it works to express the feeling for me
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to twinkle in the sky--
In the midst of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh
Yes, this is delightful. I of course went to look at 68-61 Yellowstone, which is part of a vast development north of Queens Boulevard: block after block of 7-story postwar apartments. It really gives you an idea of the staggering scale of building we once did but no longer do. Guesstimating at the number of units per floor, we're talking literally hundreds of buildings over a 20 block by 2-to-4 block wide area, each with something like 100 units. Most of it quite uniform, although there are 3 towers and a few blocks that are just rowhouses.
In the '60s, with bigger households, there must've been easily 75,000 people living in just this one little bit of Queens. Double that wouldn't shock me.
9: I agree the piece is pretty perfect so I don't want to know any more. I just wanted to listen to "Don't walk away Renee" and bathe in the sweet melancholy for a few minutes before getting back to work. So I did. Except for the work part.
Maybe it's just my low self-esteem, but I can't imagine my high school crush being that happy to find out my secret devotion. I found her on LinkedIn, and she's an "executive-physician-scientist".
14: What do you mean? You don't believe that peep could ever have been a teenager in love?
No. Only MacGyver gets three things (soldier, scientist, hero). Everyone else only gets two.
16: Well, if ever reads this, she'll know it's her, but she will have no idea who peep is.
17: No wonder your self-esteem is so low! You can't write the simplest sentence without missing a word!
You're better at commenting that 80s tv writers were at alliteration.
That s/b than. We all have issues since neb left us to our own devices.
19: Well, they did come up with "The Golden Girls". That's pretty darn good alliteration.
I'm guessing many of you saw this on one of the times it went around twitter, but I am still wondering how it's not a movie already and a shoo-in for this year's Oscar.
"Tube on strike, I dawdled to Paddington on Friday. Passing the old wrought iron sign for Pizza Express, I was reminded of an event 30+ years ago, when I got caught up in a drama that resulted in a divorce, two marriages and many changed lives.
"It began with a heart attack" ...
https://twitter.com/electra_rhodes/status/1561349585397862400?lang=en
I think I've got to cut back on my interneting because it's making me anxious and I'm buying too much used hiking gear when I'm trying to avoid being anxious. I'm going to get all my news from here going forward and only buy used hiking equipment at backpacking light. For a while.
On topic because "people I knew in high school": On the first page of obituaries in my home town's mortuary, there are four people (of 15) who are both deceased and younger than I am. And the obituaries aren't saying why they died so I can reassure myself that it can't happen to me. I didn't know any of them, because only because they were too young for me to have associated with. I knew their parents or siblings.
If anything is cleansed here, let it be palates, not palettes.
Oddly I keep crossing paths with my biggest high school crush. She moved to the city I lived in after she finished college, then at one point we unknowingly lived a couple blocks apart, then she and my wife each had a kid a couple weeks apart at the same hospital*, then I worked at the same company as her husband. We were actually going to get together to play mixed doubles tennis in spring 2020 but then COVID and we haven't reconnected since then except via occasional FB comments.
*I gave up on trying to phrase that more clearly after three or four tries so go ahead Moby.
I think 26 is the potential Oscar winner not 22. An epic tale of unrequited longing in the vein of Thorn Birds. Just need to figure out the ending.
I'm still focused on the theater with "Barbie" "Bottoms" "Golda" on the marquee.
Also, I had to cross the street to avoid deer on my walk home tonight. That's never an uplifting feeling.
My high school crush works for Kristi Noem now.
I guess she's actually a middle school crush. Her family shipped her off to NMMI for high school, which I suppose at least partly explains the cop thing.
Anyway, I had several crushes in high school but none that rose to the same level. My 20-year reunion is this weekend and I happened to be traveling back to Albuquerque for other reasons so I'm going. There are only about 20 people attending; high school reunions appear to be among the many things millennials have killed.
Shipped her off to NMM, Inc.? That would have made high school a lot worse. And meant a lot of dead celebrities, too.
My uncle was always suggesting I should go to NMMI.
Looked it up - I think we used to call that sort of school an "army crammer".
My uncle was in the Army, but really the Air Force.
My most recent crush just published a critically acclaimed translation of an epic poem, but I don't think it's relevant to this thread, because I didn't know her in HS.
I really don't know anyone who's gone on to being any kind of a big deal*, so certainly none of my crushes have. One classmate I thought might end up a big deal, but Google never turns anything up, despite a very distinctive name.
*closest exception is a guy who's won a couple Tonys and is famous enough on Broadway to be known a little in pop culture, but I didn't know him that well, and he wasn't a crush. I was going to say that CMU's drama program happened to have a dry spell while I was there, but that's not really true: I just didn't happen to befriend the ones who've been most successful. Like, I knew/met everyone in Patrick Wilson's class, but I don't remember him at all.
Her family shipped her off to NMMI for high school
"Shipped her off" implies the punishment/discipline/"straighten'em out" style military school, but NMMI looks to be a relatively well-credentialed one - do you know which the intention was?
Yeah, "shipped her off" was an exaggeration. It wasn't a punishment sort of thing. NMMI is a well-regarded school, not one of the bootcamp types. My grandfather went there for junior college. (He hated it.)
41: Since the point of this thread is to generate movie plots, I'm saying that it was to separate her and teo.
41: Since the point of this thread is to generate movie plots, I'm saying that it was to separate her and teo.
My crush on her was not reciprocated AFAIK.
43, 44: Since I said it twice it must be true.