The United States invaded Afghanistan. The Patriot Act was signed into law. Anthrax was being sent through the mail. October 2001 was a pretty damn depressing month so it has to rank as the worst. But hey... the iPod was first launched so I guess it's not all bad, huh? Remember when you had to carry around a damn CD or cassette player? Caleb doesn't.
- Who Caleb McLaughlin was not yet alive to see: Aaliyah died two months previously in August. So all R. Kelly jokes must go right over Caleb's head.
- What was I doing: Taking an international relations college course which tried to examine what the key issues in US-foreign relations would be for the near future. About two weeks into the course, on September 12, the teacher essentially threw out the entire planned curriculum as it was no longer relevant or meaningful.
3. February 2004: Millie Bobby Brown (as Eleven)
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| In February 2004, Eggos were still disgusting trash (as they always have been). |
Facebook and Mille Bobby Brown are the same age - being both unleashed on the world in this month. And do you remember when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was president of Haiti? No? Neither does Millie Bobby Brown, as she was all of ten days old when he resigned during the 2004 Haitian coup d'état after fleeing the country the day before. Nothing else really interesting happened this month.
- Who Millie Bobby Brown was not yet alive to see: Rod Roddy, the voice of The Price is Right, died four months before Millie was born. She likely has no clue who this fabulous, foppish dynamo was. She never was able to enjoy him announcing contestants to "come on down." Truly tragic.
- What was I doing: Being unemployed after graduating from college, and regularly applying for a variety of shitty jobs.
2. September 2002: Gaten Matarazzo (as Dustin Henderson)
Do
you remember the Queen of England's Golden Jubilee? The Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics? The Franc and Deutsche Mark ceasing to be acceptable currency?
Gaten Matarazzo sure as hell doesn't -
because those all happened prior to September 2002. If he has some
really astute memory from when he was two days old - he might recall
Switzerland finally getting around to joining the UN. Like with February 2004, this really wasn't that interesting of a month. Which is why I mentioned mostly things that happened before it. But at least nothing completely horrible happened.
- Who Gaten Matarazzo was not yet alive to see: Dee Dee Ramone, John Gotti, Rosemary Clooney, and Ted Williams are all just historical figures to Gaten, as they all died in the months prior to his birth.
- What was I doing: Writing a paper in a college political science class that summed up that no matter what Iraq did - the US was going to invade anyway, with or without UN support (yep). Speaking of Iraq...
1. December 2002: Finn Wolfhard (as Mike Wheeler)
You know how drones are a thing now and we're totally used to them? In December 2002, the world was still having its mind blown by the concept of an aircraft not being piloted by a human being. On the very same day that Finn Wolfhard was born, an MQ-1 Predator was shot down by Iraq in the first ever engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft in the history of mankind. Cool as hell, right? Also that month, Iraq filed a 12,000 page weapons declaration with the United Nations to comply with Security Council Resolution 1441 in an effort to avoid a war. It didn't work, since the United States were kind of dicks about that whole "Iraq" thing.
- Who Finn Wolfhard was not yet alive to see: James Coburn died in November, giving Finn the slight likelihood that he is simply just the reincarnation of the star of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. Depending on how long that whole reincarnation thing takes. Do you think its instantly? A couple of days? A couple of weeks?
- What was I doing: Getting psyched to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the movie theater.
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