he's developing a cartoon about his MOUSTACHE!

That takes me to a Tick place. And that is a not-unhappy place, if you're me.

I think Duran Duran would have been really big in RPS fandom too

Pretty sure they were, if we'd known a label for it at the time.

The book is freaking hilarious all the way through, if -- you know -- mortifying. [link]

Henley's got that Texas Calvinist (thank you, RS) thing going on that would make me want to murderize him after a week.

You'd last a week?

I was thinking more in terms of hours before the spork to death desires came out in full force.

The summer between 7th and 8th grade, my best friend and I wrote this epic real person fic, au, of everyone in our school, with names changed, as adults. We called it our Soap Opera, and we gave everyone aliases. Mostly I came up with stories, and Judy wrote. We spent hours and hours on the phone agonizing over it. We even inserted ourselves.

When we got back to school we were letting our friend Andy read it, and got caught passing it back and forth, and THE ENTIRE LIST OF ALIASES FOR EVERYONE IN OUR CLASS was read aloud. I though I would die.

That is actually one of the last creative things I have ever written, but Jusy actually writes for magazines, seemingly mostly about sex tips and keeping your marriage hot.

I find this amusing, because at this time, she did not even know the basic mechics, and I had to tell her. Also, for some reason she always called ses "making sex".

You'd last a week?

I was married to an actor-producer-director, remember. My tolerance for self-involved crappitude is very high.

Not THAT weird.

No, I get the slash element between them (and Joe Perry and Stephen Tyler, or Mick and Keith. Though never between Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry, which is a little odd since I'm pretty sure Pete was off having the bisex midlife crisis in the early eighties).

No, it's just that in my mind Led Zeppelin exists in sort of a pre-slash universe. Which is wrong - they're coeval with Star Trek. But in my mind slash doesn't really get going until Starsky and Hutch. Or something.

No, it's just that in my mind Led Zeppelin exists in sort of a pre-slash universe.

Dude, I'm fairly sure there's a good case for there being contemporary Canterbury Tales slash.

Also, for some reason she always called ses "making sex".

Classic. Poor dumb kids.

Also, for some reason she always called ses "making sex".

I have to say, I was only the expert because I read romance novels and watched soap operas, so my verion of sex involved a lot of "heaving bosoms" and throbbing amnhoods" I should be happy I didn't bring Jondalar's giant woman maker into it!

Tangentially, has anyone else every read Erica Jong's "Fanny"? I read that around that same 7th grade time period, and I am wondering if it was as full of sex of every shape and size as I remember.

I managed to find a copy of The Happy Hooker somewhere. Between that and romance novels, the warping was strong.