As much as I sometimes wish to have had access in my youth to the type of tech that is common place today, I have to say that being a part of that analog to digital transitional generation was, and sometimes still is, amazing.

Fuckin-A — totally. :-)

Thank you for writing this — I learnt a LOT. :-)

Outta my head! Even though this is Friday and you posted it three days ago I just read the article and was thinking the same.

Met online in 2000 after emailing each other for a few months before. One day he said 'Where do you live?' and when I said 'Brooklyn' (thinking he was in Illinois) and told him where, he went 'I'm four miles away from you'. We met the next night and have been together ever since. He's 22 years younger than I am and…

Holy shit and thank you! :-)

I'm not going to comment on all your thoughts because that would take a very long time. Thing is, I totally agree w/each and every one of them, especially your first:

...I have never lived in NYC, but I did live in several other big Northern-Midwest cities. It's about as white and bland as you get. I suppose that's what makes me mad about so many of these North/South debates. So many wealthy northern whites have never been exposed to the problems or groups that they have…

you're slapping a "LOL THE SOUTH" label on issues that are endemic with rural poverty.

Fuck the South apart from those who believe in evolution, science, climate change, Planned Parenthood/birth control/proper women's health care and proven facts, not made-up bullshit.

I'm sorry, I don't know who any of these people are though I just searched for Vyvyan Basterd (and dig what I read). Also, I haven't had a working TV in ages. I'm a film freak and use it to watch DVDs. For some reason, watching anything longer than a ten-minutes youtube doesn't agree w/me since I get too bored. My…

HAH! I (used to) wish. Jagger lost his credibility w/me a few years before they refused him entrance to the Pyramid Club in the mid-80s (I lived around the corner on 6th, but really lived in the Pyramid). I think I remember he'd pulled up in a limo right on Avenue A — we were all WTF? I believe it was on the same…

They used to play for free before they hit it big (Patti as well; they all were like a breath of fresh air IMO). Chris Stein's mother was the first adult who smoked reefer w/us. Otherwise, I got nothing. :-)

It's so much more fun to be the loony aunt/uncle/auncle.

LOL! You're SO right! (Of course. :-) Thing is, being a boy inside, I never saw myself as a mother. I was a teacher in the 90s and one day it occurred I might be sublimating some vestigial maternal instinct but I rejected that shit, chalked it up to always getting along really well w/children (better than some of…

Thank you for saying — I've actually thought about that and ended up pleased she'd never have a chance to be nasty to any of my non-existent offspring. :-) Then again, it's enough I had to like, deflect her vicious comments from various friends for most of my life when my dad wasn't around to defuse her.

It's very kind of you to say that — thank you so much!

Your mother sucks.

Thank you for saying, but nah — although I wanted to sue the shitstain of a doctor's ass off, my mother was against it. I got the hell out of her clutches ASAP and only began talking to her recently (30+ years later).

I wish, but nah. I went to my parents to find a lawyer but my mother was all 'We don't sue' which freaked me the hell out (we weren't wealthy then and we're not now). Then I left home (again). :-)