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[t-rex.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to make me feel old?

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/report_1998_was_ten_fucking ;)

This was a graphic someone posted in a forum I troll. I lost track of the original, but it was just Helvetica Bold on white, so I remade it.
It kinda struck me. Holy shit. Fight Club, American Beauty and Fear & Loathing came out then.
I was still best friends with Julian. I hadn't dated Kalina yet. I didn't know this really awesome Greek would change my life - or that she even existed. I thought life meant depression. I had no idea how I'd make a living, much less that there were 'career paths' that you could enjoy. I weighed 20 pounds more than I do now. I tried drugs for the first time. I was taking an SSRI. The Chamber was still the central Scene fixture. I began my ill-destined venture into grad school.

It seems so recent, but damn, that was a fucking lifetime ago.
Y'know?

[delathi.livejournal.com]

I hate you.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Shit: I FIRST JOINED AIT ELEVEN YEARS AGO.

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

BUT --
It feels like last century!

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I wonder how long it takes for a new one to sink in?

[morbid-o.livejournal.com]

More importantly - remember car phones?
"Quick, call them before they get into the parking lot and we miss our chance!"

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I have looked at people and found them lustworthy, then realized "They weren't even a fetus when I graduated from high school - ACK!"

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

I broke up with my first fiancee ten years ago. Christ.

And J.R. "Bob" Dobbs never showed up with the spaceships, either.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

JESUS CHRIST I FORGOT ABOUT THAT.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of Al'Qaida.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Or George W. Bush.

[meadbh.livejournal.com]

Christ... I should chronicle my life every year. Noteworthy things/news/events/movies/music that happened that year. I don't remember 1998 that much =\ But if I could guess, it was: working in lawfirm/working at the Chamber and having terrible relationships...

[orangecone.livejournal.com]

hrm. 1998. That is the year I got Murphy. My first "real" long-term rel. split up. I got the apt off clairmont rd. that year.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Murphies!

If may paraphrase the Puppy:

[ineffabelle]

Way back in '98
Everything was so great
No way
Wrong date

[emiko.livejournal.com]

I had my first kiss in 1998~
Finishing my first year of high school.

I certainly had no idea where I'd be ten years from then.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

My website (then called 'my homepage') was about my cat.

[mistervimes.livejournal.com]

As the old guy in the room I can only say: "Ha-ha"
I felt that way in 98 abdout 88.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I look forward to the day I can laugh at all these kids...

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

I graduated college in December of 98. >_

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

The Titanic soundtrack was the number one seller for 16 weeks.

[daucus-carota.livejournal.com]

I believe, Jesse Ventura (as a political figure), Monica Lewinsky, and Eric Rudolph (did they ever catch that guy?) were all prominent 1998 names. Frank Sinatra died too.
I think we'd be better off forgetting that one all together... just erase it away and we can all be one year younger. What'd ya think?
xxx

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I agree with your positions (as long as we can keep the movies of the year) and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[beachsomewhere.livejournal.com]

I moved from California to Atlanta in 1998. I was living as a kept woman, bribed by copious shopping trips, massage treatments, resort vacations, and... dying of ennui. If you'd told me then that I would still be here - much less enjoy being here - I'd have laughed a very long time. Yet I'm here, under wildly different circumstances, and I'm finding that here can be a wonderful place.

I'm hoping the next ten years are even more joyous.

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Ennui!!!?????
I hope this comment was sarcasm.....

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

Please don't say that. It makes me feel old.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

This is also the year the Unabomber pled guilty and George Michael came out.

[poisongirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Ass.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Viagra first came out.

[wanderingastray.livejournal.com]

In 1998, I:

-stood on the great wall of china
-had my neighborhood destroyed by a tornado; heard from my friends that my family and I were on the news, was fed by the American Red Cross for a week while the city worked to restore power, saw every movie playing in the theater (including Titanic) maybe four times each because of the lack of power
-graduated from highschool
-attained an international baccalaureate
-moved to Washington, D.C.
-got engaged for the first time
-became legal

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Boy you had yer hands full that year didn'tcha?!

[darkerdays.livejournal.com]

someone should kick your ass for this.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that a lot.

[bedivere.livejournal.com]

In 1998, I was still black.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Hav you got vitiligo? Or were you caught listening to Radiohead or something? ;)

(Just curious.)

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

I was living in Texas, enjoying the dot com boom, drinking sipping tequila, and living it up. I didn't give a damn. I knew we had a piss poor governor, but I didn't think there was a chance in hell he'd actually become the president. Shit, keep drinking.

[purvis.livejournal.com]

Ah yes.... 1998.... There were some great e-mail list flame wars that year. I think I started most of them. Oh my..

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Wow, that means the Purv (if you know what I mean!) has been in my life for a decade!

[danuv.livejournal.com]

I realized the other day that in Aug Tomas and I will have basically been together for 20 years. I don't feel like I should be old enough to have been doing anything for 20 years except maybe walking and talking. Argh.

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing out how fucking old we are.....

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

But here's to a good bunch of bloody entertainment behind us!!!!!
We should start a club....oh they've already done that ....

[recalcitrant.livejournal.com]

i've been thinking that for the past few weeks as well, utterly stunned.

its because on the 7 may i left for my big 6 month trip around the US and europe/uk....and since 1999 i've not been anywhere overseas :-( it really sucks that my big trip was 10 years ago...before all the bullshit in NY made travelling worse.

[iconnu.livejournal.com]

Damn..

In 1998, I was able to buy alcohol.

I was living here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=33.881748,+-84.537523&ie=UTF8&ll=33.881797,-84.537523&spn=0.001051,0.002478&t=h&z=19&iwloc=addr&lci=lmc:panoramio,lmc:wikipedia_en) in a terrible apartment.

I was dating this blond Italian guy from Detroit whom I would leave toward the end of the year when I realized that I didn't actually know why the hell I was still dating him.

Jebus.. that seems so long ago, but it wasn't. Not really.