I just spent this rainy afternoon watching "The Big Chill." This morning I finished "Valley Girl." (Young Nicholas Cage....romantic, fearless, reckless...still my dream man). Am I feeling nostalgic? Do I regard the future with fear and uncertainty? Do I want to climb back into the womb of 80's optimism? Is it hard to admit to myself that I will be referencing these films till the end of my days?

Hell. Yes. (...to all of the above).

Let's face it. Life is scary. And then there's this whole Titanic aspect of the economy.

There's a good reason why people, like myself, aspire to be forever young. And I'm not even talking about the nubile skin part. It's just so much more blissful to not know that sociopaths run corporations, and confused scared people much like myself run governments, and zombies and vampires pretty much make up the rest.

Just for today, I'm retreating to the 80's.