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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather have enjoyed nothing so much over the last week as the reemergence of “Bennifer” as a cultural phenomenon. It takes the back to the heady days of the early 2000s, and they overthink what has changed between then and now, and why a person might want to back and look at that formative moment.
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I declare that we’re in These Unprecedented Times of Things Geting Back to Normal(TM). Drop the period-appropriate “Mission Accomplished” banner and strike up the band!
I hear Matt on making school a difficult thing. I didn’t fight hard enough to take classes outside my major in college, because I let the department heads convince me that it would set a bad precedent. Granted, it was an engineering school and one request was a spacecraft design course, but still, I should’ve fought for it as a challenge, in retrospect.
One interesting point about the era that I don’t think was mentioned, though, is that I (at least) associate it with the period where the lines finished blurring between “legitimate” entertainment news (upcoming releases, reviews, interviews, and so forth) and what used to be the “gossip column.”
An unexpected but welcome episode subject