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I Was Duckie, Dammitt, and I Blew It!

  • March 11, 2011 4:43 am

What is it about human nature that makes us desperately want what we can’t have, yet shrug our shoulders at those things which fall out of the heavens into our laps?

Take, for example, my high school dating career.  What possible evolutionary advantage is there in desiring girls who have no interest in you, and only reluctantly accepting the advances of those who do?

First off, before I get deeper into neurology, a subject which I know how to spell, let me lay some blame at the feet of my high school.  I went to Loyola High, an all boys Jesuit school.  I received a top flight education and was never molested.  No complaints there.  Read more...

The Untold Story of the ‘Brat Pack’

  • March 4, 2010 9:09 pm

“When you grow up, your heart dies.” — from The Breakfast Club                                    

Just finished Susannah Gora’s new book You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact On A Generation. As the title implies, the book looks back on the 1980s and the particular brand of teen movies of the era pioneered by the late writer/director John Hughes (Gora focuses on the seven seminal works in this genre: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind Of Wonderful and Say Anything).

Many of us here at YOMYOMF grew up in the 1980s and these films were an important part of our youth despite their flaws (i.e. the glaring lack of diversity in them except for one infamous exception—see below). So let’s take a trip to the past with these little-known facts from Gora’s book:  Read more...