{"id":2721,"date":"2012-03-26T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/previously_unta\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T04:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:24:14","slug":"previously_unta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/previously_unta\/","title":{"rendered":"Previously untapped memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHOA.<\/strong> It\u2019s astonishing that such a random old ad \u2014 spotted on Dionne Warlock<\/a> \u2014 could tap into such a well of memory. It’s not mental memory, really: I can’t really recall anything about where or when I would have seen this ad. Maybe it was in that one random copy of GQ<\/i> i bought when I was about 13 or 14, or a catalog we had around the house. It’s kind of an emotional memory, I guess. I just remember this feeling of being utterly fascinated by these handsome men, at a point when I was way too young to make any sense of that. I stared at this picture A LOT.<\/p>\n

I had a particular fascination with the guy on the left, who Google reminds me was Jeff Aquilon<\/a>, a dude who is apparently considered one of the first male supermodels. He’s certainly handsome, but in a way that doesn’t inspire the same vivid reaction it did back when I didn’t quite even know what attraction felt like. It’s so weird to be reminded, in a gut sort of way, what that was like.<\/p>\n

Oh! But here’s another ad I similarly recall, with a different guy, from the same source<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I bet I kept these in a scrapbook at one point. I can’t really remember, but I’m sure I must have had something like that when I was a wee lad.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Another!<\/a> 1983? Sounds about right. These must have all come from the same magazine, and I must have had one from the same time, if not the same magazine. This is really all too vivid.<\/p>\n

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WHOA. It\u2019s astonishing that such a random old ad \u2014 spotted on Dionne Warlock \u2014 could tap into such a well of memory. It’s not mental memory, really: I can’t really recall anything about where or when I would have seen this ad. Maybe it was in that one random copy of GQ i bought … Continue reading “Previously untapped memories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77128,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/77128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}