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December 22, 2004

Jeff Goldstein's Christmas Wishlist, Circa 1985

I was, as many of you know, I was always more of Nick Rhodes man myself; mascara, light pink lipstick, and fingerless lace gloves always said "Wild Boy" to me.

Not so much to the ladies, alas. The most play I'd tend to get was some chick telling me that Don't You (Forget About Me) was really Simple Minds' worst song ever, and that I really should check out their early stuff. And then asking me if she could borrow my compact.

As if I'd carry around a compact! I mean, I did, but why would you assume that?

posted by Ace at 01:37 PM

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Did anyone else notice that shortly after Ace started making Duran Duran references, their new song hit the radio? Ace, you've got powers. Creepy powers.

But just to test the theory, I think you should start making frequent references to Soft Cell, and see if anything happens.

Posted by: Sobek on December 22, 2004 10:40 PM

What we need now is a jpeg of "Virtual Ace" in the aforementioned outfit.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: someone on December 22, 2004 11:53 PM

I, uh, guess I'm proud to say that I was entirely too uncool to be thinking about looking like Doo-Ran Doo-Ran. No, I was hanging with prog rock dudes and digging Wall of Voodoo and Michael Hedges and the English Beat.

Man am I lame. Even though I still like that stuff.

Posted by: Chap on December 23, 2004 12:02 AM

Simon LeBon was my favorite.

Posted by: Mrs C on December 23, 2004 01:29 AM

Man, I'm glad I grew up in the 70's.

Posted by: Master of None on December 23, 2004 08:59 AM

Man, I'm gald I grew up in the 70's.

That's just not something I hear every day.

Seriously, how can the decade that brought us Carter, rainbow suspenders, disco, and pet rocks bust on the 80s?

Posted by: Rocketeer67 on December 23, 2004 03:10 PM

Because it also brought us Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Pink Floyd (2). Just to name a few.

Posted by: Smack on December 23, 2004 07:48 PM

John Taylor rocked. The first concert I ever went to was Duran Duran's 7 and the Ragged Tiger tour. Damn good show too. Ah...7th grade.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

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"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

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Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
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