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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).

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*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!

*mmmbwahahahahahahaha*

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....)

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

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.