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[geekchick]

Wil Wheaton writes about explaining Live Aid to his stepkids, and causes me to choke on my morning caffeine with this:

"Who's that?" Nolan asked.

"That's Phil Collins. He just finished performing in London, and now he's going to fly to Philly to perform there too," I said. "It was pretty cool."

"Phil Collins?!" Ryan said, "The wussy Tarzan guy?!"

I shrugged my shoulders. "Well . . . yeah."

"He was cool?"

"Phil Collins was . . . " I cleared my throat. "He was an international superstar."

Ryan looked at me, genuinely confused. "Why?"

I took a deep breath and gave the only answer I could.

"It . . . it was 1985." I said, suddenly not that uncomfortable to take another step toward becoming my parents, and silently grateful that the kids hadn't been in the room when I was rocking out to Adam Ant.

Also, the discussion of Bono and the mullet ( "official haircut of rock and roll" in 1985).

Comments

[zuggy9.livejournal.com]

*grateful that the kids hadn't been in the room when I was rocking out to Adam Ant*

bahahahahahah!!!

off to stock up on geritol!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

*mmmbwahahahahahahaha*

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Ack! I was just rocking out to Adam Ant this morning (or, at least, as much as one can rock out while in DC traffic, before the first cup of coffeee....)

[gloriajn.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I long for the Phil Collins of Genesis, and weep for the Phil Collins of today! :(

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

I think you've identified the real problem here. We need to do like imdb.com does and distinguish between the 2. Something like "Phil Collins [I]", who was in Genesis and cool, and "Phil Collins [II]", who, uh, wasn't. Just tell the kiddies it's not the same guy. It's true enough that they'll probably fall for it.