Attached Link: "I Like to Watch" by Heather Havrilesky

(Sorry to keep bumping this with the unfortunate title Jen)

 Here’s an interesting essay, at Salon.com, on the propensity to form nostalgic attachments to early incarnations of works.     Looks at how Message & Content is adapted and modified over time to match a changing audience,  and typically, one will outgrow the other.

 -- ""Of course you liked early R.E.M. best," I want to say. "You were 17 years old and drunk on tequila and in love with a girl who didn't know you existed….” --

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"I Like to Watch" by Heather Havrilesky at Salon.com:

 http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2009/01/18/battlestar/index.html?source=rss&aim=/ent/tv/iltw