Welcome, Anthony Rapp! (part three)- Page 200

[RachLaura]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 12:55pm

Hahaha, (a) Makes me talk a lot more than I normally do, especially to my parents.

I think we can all relate to that one.

I haven't told my mom about the message board, she would honestly shoot me. She's so paranoid about people coming and finding me. Once she saw my AIM info which had my middle name on it (Laura) and flipped a million and one sh*ts. So I don't think she'd approve of this at all.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:00pm

My parents are alright with my internet obsession as long as I don't go meet people in seedy hotel rooms.

[RachLaura]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:02pm

Anyway, there are a lot of better places creepy people can go than broadway message boards to find innocent girls they can lure to "seedy hotel rooms."

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:04pm

Heh. Good luck with that, Em. You're going to get some interesting phone calls...

See CS, if Facebook had your school, you'd be able to convince your mom that we're all totally normal people who are who we say we are and not 43 year old men. *kicks Facebook*

My parents barely realize that Anthony exists. After the signing, I spent 5 minutes trying to explain to my mom who it was that I saw. "No Mom, not the Mark we saw on the non-Equity tour last spring. The movie Mark. Remember I told you all about the movie? I saw it 4 times..." They just don't bother to retain things concerning me these days.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:06pm

I had to tell my mom about the boards because I'm trying to convince her that I'm going to New York in the summer. I just wish that the internet doesn't scare her as much as it does. It's just because she doesn't understand it.

[RachLaura]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:10pm

My mom sees different articles and news programs about the internet stalkers & thinks that anything you do online is unsafe. I remember when she found my mypsace, oooooohh what a night.

[Allie]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:10pm

Speaking of parents... I wanted to tell you guys that my dad finally rented and saw the movie! And he didn't fall asleep, which, if you knew my dad, means it was pretty okay. He's ALWAYS falling asleep during movies. He thought it was a "neat story" (I think that's what he said). Not something he'd watch again, but he enjoyed it nonetheless. Actually, he claims this was his first musical movie. Ever. How can that be?! My 14 year old brother actually didn't like it, which was very surprising! I'm a little disappointed. My dad's girlfriend's daughter, however, watched it four times before they returned it. I'm so proud.

Neither of my parents know about BWW. My mom freaked out once after seeing my brother reading a Sum 41 messageboard. So we just don't tell her these things, heh.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:23pm

My mother only knows half of the story about how I met Anthony. I always wish I could tell them about the boards, because it's had such a HUGE, profound imapct on my life -- intellectually and socially. My parents are too hung up on safety to be able to see that, I think. I usually just twist the truth about how I've met BWW people. I hate having to lie, but it's not worth the fight.

When I was just lurking on BWW, my mom found me surfing and was like "you don't do this, do you?" Point taken. That's all part of the reason I won't get a MySpace.

[RachLaura]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:29pm

Weird. My mom just came into my room and asked if my sister has a Myspace (which she does) and told me she just saw on the news that it's a huge site for pedophiles.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:34pm

Case in point, unfortunately.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:36pm

I don't know how pedophiles can sit and wait for all of the html to load!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:43pm

My parents don't know about this. They know I read "some Broadway site" but I don't think they know it's a message board/what a message board is. They freaked out about me having my email address at the end of my column (which is required) and we've had some heated discussions about the internet in the past, so they definitely wouldn't be okay with it. I only have to worry about it when I'm at home though. But I'm the same as Em, I've had to come up with some elaborate stories to explain how I've met people- including Anthony.

I can't tell if it's snowing outside, or the strong winds are just blowing the snow already on the ground.

Updated On: 3/4/06 at 01:43 PM

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:47pm

The wind here sounds SCARY.

[tacos are great]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:47pm

My myspace is private to anyone except my friends and my icon isn't even of my face. I don't want to risk anyone from my real life running up on it and telling my parents. That would be bad, bad, bad.

My 13 year old brother has a myspace. It's really *really* creepy and I hate to say it, but he's probably got at least one dirty old man surfing around on his picture page. He doesn't care, as long as his girlfriend gets to see him shirtless. *shudder*

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:48pm

It's really nice out, though!

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 1:58pm

It's not snowing here skittles.

Noah, can't he send her those picture over IM or something?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:05pm

Yeah, it's not snowing, the wind died down and there's nothing falling now. Is it sad that since I came to school, I've been able to fall asleep to the sound of snow plows?

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:08pm

It comes with the territory. Snow plows have never bothered me.

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:09pm

Whenever my mom asks me how I know something (like the signings) I always say I have "connections", lol. I'm pretty sure I have hinted at her that I have a myspace, and she knows something of BWW, but has no fricken clue what it is. If she knew that I had a SN she would break my arms and legs and watch me die. Seriously.

*insert frightened face here*

[tacos are great]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:11pm

*gasp* But then all the other girls in his grade wouldn't be able to see them!

Oy ve.

I don't know. I did get him to change his location on there, though. So now a pedophile would have to go to MatthewRules, MN to find him.

Snow! Snow rocks. Send some to me, please!

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:13pm

*throws snowball at you*

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:14pm

Hah, I can *so* still post.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:18pm

The sad thing, though, is it's understandable the way parents react. It's the way our society works. Most people watch the news, or read the paper, etc. What's on the news? Stories about people like us on BWW and how close we've all become? No. Stories of pedophiles and rapes and terrible things happening from meeting people internet. That's what they hear about. Only hearing about all these bad stories on the news and such makes out society an unfortunate very fearful one.

Fortunately, my mom knows all about BWW and knows of my good friends here and one of my friends even stayed over for a couple of days and she really liked her. Early on, my sister would tell me she called her panicking worried that I was meeting people, but is totally cool with it now. In fact, sometimes she's come to shows or concerts with me when I've seen a BWWer or 2 and I've introduced her to them.