Friday, September 15, 1995

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Welcome to the USA-Talk Bulletin Board.

Your handle is archiesnakeson.

Log in at 4:27:21 pm on 5/1/86.

archiesnakeson: just got done watching star wars again. man,what a movie!

xoxotessa: snake,is that you?

archiesnakeson: is that lil’ tessa campanelli? idk you had a usa-talk account.

xoxotessa: i just signed up,like three days ago! so far ive chatted with ld,jimmy,caitlin,terry caruso,both mayas,and spinner.

archiesnakeson: yeah! its like a continuous reunion for all of us! we won’t even need an actual reunion in 95 when we can all just chat here.

xoxotessa: so,i heard you liked star wars? i have one thing to say to you......i like star wars too!

archiesnakeson: favorite character. no wrong answers. ill start. yoda.

xoxotessa: han solo. he’s so dreamy!!!

archiesnakeson: least favorite. the emperor.

xoxotessa: leia,actually. she’s so......judgey? is that the word im looking for?

archiesnakeson: knowing you,probably.  how’s your mom doing? my mom told me she had to have surgery or something.

xoxotessa: she’s doing fine,snake! it was her hips that were having problems. she’ll need to use a cane for a year or 2 but she’ll be alright. u seeing any1?

archiesnakeson: not since lucy and i broke up last xmas. she’s with bronco now,remember him?

xoxotessa: what happened between you guys? you always seemed so happy 2gether.

archiesnakeson: we decided we were better off friends. happens 2 all of us eventually,doesn’t it?

xoxotessa: it just seems that since both u guys are rich,you’d,like,get married or something.

archiesnakeson: i wish!

xoxotessa: well,im available if u want some1 to go out with. i haven’t been with anybody since before we graduated. toby was,well,a total bust.

archiesnakeson: yeah,asu seems like a better fit for him than socal. we’re playing a play-by-post game and it sucks having the game pause every hundred turns to remind us to identify our possessions.

xoxotessa: geek.

archiesnakeson: brainer.

melanicious: jeez,guys. dont you have anything better 2 do than snipe at each other?

archiesnakeson: im needling her,mel,there’s a difference. didn’t know you were on here.

melanicious: isn’t everybody?

archiesnakeson: i know for a fact wheels isn’t. i don’t think claire is. jenna is - i talked with her this morning. spike,joey,paige,terri,ashley,bianca,trish,allison,lola,simon,holly j,liz,alexa,joanne......they’re all here.

melanicious: add trudi to that list.

archiesnakeson: who?

xoxotessa: trudi owens! you mean 2 say you don’t know her,snake? she’s the girl with dyed red hair who was best friends with manny most of the time. she and manny were on the 83-84 tennis team together with fiona and ld. bennyway,there’s a party going on tonite at the “back’n’forth” - that new dance hall on mariposa boulevard. wanna come with? there’ll prolly be quite a few of our classmates there.

archiesnakeson: itsa deal,tess! meet me in front of st raphael church at 6:30 - you should know where it is.

Facecasts:

Snake - Austin O’Brien if he was a redhead

Melanie - Elizabeth Keifer


“both mayas” refers to Maya Goldberg and Maya Matlin 

Sunset Heights III: scrambled eggs all over ellie’s face

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Your handle is allihunt.

Log on at 7:18:32 pm 2/16/86.

joeyj66: ah,yes,the lovely allison has decided to grace us with her presence.

allihunt: oh,hey,joey,where you been?

joeyj66: at the cafe del sol,trying to win julie farrell’s heart.

allihunt: you’d have better luck with the twins,and you know it! see any of the old crowd there?

joeyj66: just alex nunez with some new girl on her arm. caitlin was gonna show but she cancelled. oh,and spinner,putting the moves on your bestie.

allihunt: caitlin’s been under the weather lately.

joeyj66: sorry to hear that. she’s one of the good ones.

allihunt: i saw ellie this morning at the library. she looked out of it so i asked her what was what. she was dating some guy called clutch and apparently he wasn’t as interested in her as she thought.

joeyj66: that’d probably be clutch barnett. he went to van nuys high and founded their wrestling team. graduated two yrs before we did.

allihunt: you know this how?

joeyj66: snake was his neighbor growing up. clutch tried to beat his brother up after he found out he was gay. glen beat him fair and square. i think he even knocked out some teeth.

allihunt: wow. sure beats everything i’ve heard about him. i miss the days when she was with wheels,hows he these days?

joeyj66: living with his aunt in huntington beach,getting his life together.

allihunt: awww. i miss him.

joeyj66: i’ll be sure to pass that on.

littlemissspike: i can tell you a little more about how hes doing. hes a ta at huntington beach high now.

allihunt: only a year after we graduated? that doesn’t track.

joeyj66: hes a teachers assistant,allison,not a teacher. there’s a difference.

allihunt: still,that’s pretty nice for someone our age. do you know the subject,spike?

littlemissspike: english.

joeyj66: not surprising ‘cause that was always his second best subject after music.

littlemissspike: also,he’s going out with annie martin,remember her?

allihunt: the style queen of malibu high? im not likely to forget her anytime soon.

joeyj66: meh,i’d trust any of kathleen’s friends as far as i could throw ‘em.

allihunt: hey! that includes melanie,mia,paige,diana,teresa,and even yours truly! all of whom you’ve shown an interest in at some point or other! you need to grow up,joey.

littlemissspike: yeah!

joeyj66: sorry,girls,but i’ve not xactly had the best time around her.  but in the interest of civility,what’s she up to these days?

littlemissspike: she’s at uc riverside now,studying history.

joeyj66: so,still a nerd then.

allihunt: yes,she always was,joey.

joeyj66: eh,not all of us can be jocks. 

littlemissspike: agreed.

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Facecast:

Allison - Blake Lively but with Sara Holmes’ voice

Sunset Heights II: from the mixed-up files of the malibu messenger, october 18-25,1985 edition

 Excerpted from the article Surf Bands of ‘86, by Nancy Kramer

 

PAIGE AND THE SEX KITTENS

Lead singer: Paige Michalchuk,18,of Beverly Hills. Outspoken,adorable,vocal as fuck. Best damn singer I know. A good friend,to boot! 

Keyboardist / pianist: Christine "Spike" Nelson,18,of Topanga Town. Spiky hair? Check. Short? Check. Sweet? Check. This chick's a triple threat to beat all other triple threats. By the way,the big reason she's on keyboard? She can't carry a tune. But don't tell her I wrote that!

Backup vocals: Tessa Campanelli,18,of Beverly Hills. She's the daughter of Nathan Campanelli,the TV producer,so she knows the biz! She's the short,pretty blondie with the prominent neck who's holding the biggest pool cue I've ever seen.

Backup vocals/bass: Terri MacGregor,19,of Agoura Hills. You know the big girl with crimped brown hair and the lightest of tans who’s always sipping a lemonade and wearing any one of a number of plus-sized purple dresses? That’s Terri. She’s a good pal and a major-league bass player,even if her fashion choices are a little on the grody side (sorry,Terri! We still love you!).

Keyboardist: Ashley Kerwin,18,of Encino. This chick has big hair and a bigger heart (readers of the July 26-August 2 issue of the Messenger will remember her as the girl who was directing glass cleanup on Zuma Beach),and it goes without saying that she’s got a surfeit of musical talent too! Ashley was Secretary of the Malibu High Class of 1985,and she took home a handful of academic awards during her time there as a student,though she’s best remembered there as Queen of the MHS 1984 Junior-Senior Prom.

Tambourine: Hazel Aden,19,of Beverly Hills. It’s my opinion that this little songbird is destined for higher things than the tambourine,given the vocals she rocked as a member of the North Hollywood High school choir (she’s class of ‘84 if you care about that sort of thing). She’s very talented in the art world too,so much so that some of her watercolors will decorate the walls of NHHS for a long time to come.

Drums: Alexa Pappadopolos,18,of Agoura Hills. Just about anyone who’s been to the Zuma Beach Klub of a Friday night knows Alexa and/or her older sister Phoebe (22), two pretty black-haired gals who love to partay heartay and are unafraid to be themselves! Alexa’s been a close personal pal of mine for over a decade now and I’m glad she’s making out like the proverbial bandit!

Manager: Stephanie Kaye,21,of Tarzana. The pretty,popular,well-dressed President of the Malibu High class of 1982 has certainly gone places since graduation,managing gigs as far afield as Monterey and Austin,and she owes it to her natural business talents and sense for what bands are rising in popularity. With her in charge of the Sex Kittens,these girls are bound to go places!

Facecasts:

Tessa - Brittany Daniel

Terri - Sara Rue

Ashley - Ally Sheedy

Hazel - Robin Givens

Alexa - Georgina Leonidas

Stephanie - Elisha Cuthbert


Sunset Heights I: usa-talk-talk

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Welcome to the USA-Talk Bulletin Board.

Your handle is littlemissspike.

Log on at 6:08:14 pm 3/29/87.

littlemissspike: anyone wanna chat? i’m free for the night.

joeyj66: night? its only 6,spike. night’s not til like 9 round here.

littlemissspike: don’t you have jules to kick around.....i mean deal with?

joeyj66: she’s with her ‘rents in bumfuck,mo,visiting some dying family member. whatever. even if she finds some hot d00d there i can always go back to diana or paige or liz or nikki.

littlemissspike: in your dreams. bsides,nikki’s a bivvie like me.

joeyj66: but liz isn’t.

orourkey: jeez,guys. i’m tryna find my way to one of the jem groups and here you guys are,arguing like two bums at the markham st soup kitchen.

joeyj66: liz! pleasure to meetcha here.

littlemissspike: now,now,dont you two fight. i’d hate to hafta kick either of you.

spinnermason: what up,spike? haven’t seen you in a while.

littlemissspike: finally,someone sane in this convo.

spinnermason: amy’s watching snl in the living room an’ she says hey.

littlemissspike: you can tell her allison’s walking again. no more crutches for her!

spinnermason: schweet!

joeyj66: y’know what? i’m leaving you guys for the seahawks group. next year in seattle.

littlemissspike: you won’t be missed.

orourkey: dead-o (is that how you say it?).

spinnermason: thirded and its ditto. learn to spell,lizardbreath. btw,gotta go. dinner w/ the holmeses tonite.

orourkey: i dont even know how to reply to that. ttyl.

lddelacorte: am i late to the party,spike?

littlemissspike: you wish,ld. just joey being an a$$ as usual.

lddelacorte: hes been that way since middle school.

orourkey: damn right. remember the sophomore prom when he spiked manny’s punch?

lddelacorte: wasn’t that 8th grade?

littlemissspike: no, that was paige spiking terri’s punch. dont you remember caitlin socking her a good one over that? they didnt speak again til junior year.

lddelacorte: i remember now. but she had the twins restrain paige and it was a slap,not a punch. i was in the hall for a quick smoke and i could hear it plain as day.

littlemissspike: then how do you know? :)

lddelacorte: i was with darcy and she looked into the gym to see what was what.

littlemissspike: i was dancing with snake!

lddelacorte: if you weren’t bivvie as all-get-out you and him would be great together.

littlemissspike: ah,well,he’s got tessa. he’ll be alrite.

lddelacorte: true,true. you still on here,liz?

orourkey: yeah,just prepping for my shift at mcd’s. i start at 7 now,its 6:19,so ive got plenty of time. its only a street over from my casa.

thehunster: i can replace you in this convo,lizzy. i just got back from visiting my big bro in bev hills and my boss gave me the nite off.

orourkey: hey there,paige! ive never seen you on usa-talk before! when did you sign up?

thehunster: three weeks ago today. also,how did you know it was me?

littlemissspike: ‘hun’. it’s,like,your catchphrase.

thehunster: alright,spike,you’ve got me fair n square. im crashing at ellie’s if you wanna know.

littlemissspike: i should visit you sometime. it’s been a few months.

thehunster: how’s emma doing?

littlemisspike: she’s an mhs junior now! shes got a boyfriend now,his name is jt.

thehunster: that’s awesome! so she isn’t awkward anymore?

littlemissspike: i guess not,but then its not like she ever was.

lddelacorte: good for her! paige,how’s ellie holding up? i heard clutch and her broke up....again.

thehunster: he’s living in a mexican commune now. el had a letter from him friday. apparently they worship the aztec gods where he’s at.

lddelacorte: jesus christ. i always knew he was kinda strange,but this takes the cake.

thehunster: you probably missed this,ld,but michelle and blt were married this morning at the beverly hills courthouse. dylan and i were witnesses,and so was erica.

lddelacorte: lucky for them you were there!

thehunster: i know! we went to the beverly hills hotel for brunch afterwards. 

littlemissspike: all right,i’ll leave you guys to your gossip and make myself some dinner. see y’all later.

Log off at 6:26:30 pm 3/29/87.

So yeah,this is basically Degrassi but they’re SoCal beach bums in the late eighties. If it helps,imagine them as upper middle class for the most part.

The first person who correctly guesses the significance of the date this chapter takes place will get the honor of having me use their pseud in a future USA-Talk chapter. Hint:it has something to do with Spike.

Julia is Julia Farrell here,older sister to the twins. Despite Spike’s implication,no,Joey is not abusing her. That’s just the Nelson sarcasm.

Bivvie = ambivalent,TTL’s catchall term for LGBT+ people

Was leetspeak a thing yet in 1987?

In OTL,Malibu High was established in 1992:here,it was established in the 1940s. The city was incorporated around 1925 ITTL instead of 1991 as in OTL.

Soundtrack for this chapter (well for basically the whole thing,lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu2II8-dBkQ

facecasts:

Spike - Alexa Kenin

Spinner - Michael Schoeffling

Joey - School’s Out!era Pat Mastroianni

Liz - Susan Dey

LD - Rebecca Schaeffer

Paige - Lauren Collins,who else?



Tuesday, September 12, 1995

Luna 16

  1970-072A


The standdown period for E-8-5 and for Proton came to an end in Sep 1970 following a successful suborbital launch the previous month, and the Soviet lunar program finally met with success. E-8-5 No. 406 left the pad on 1970 Sep 12 and returned a handful of lunar soil to Kazakhstan twelve days later.


Luna-16 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Sep 12  1325:53 Launch by Proton  KB 
 1335  Stage 3 sep 
 1339?  Blok D MES-1 
 1341?  Blok D MECO-1 
 1436  TLI burn by Blok-D (T+1h10) 
 1445 MECO-2 
 1445 Blok D sep 
1970 Sep 13  2126 TCM 
1970 Sep 16  2338:14  Lunar orbit insertion burn 3:56s  
 2342:10  LOI cutoff 99 x 121 x 70.2 
1970 Sep 18  0030?  Lower perigee  21 x 121 x 70.5 
1970 Sep 19  0220:47 Lower perigee  15 x 105 x 70.8 
 
1970 Sep 20  0510?  Aux tanks sep 
1970 Sep 20  0512:24  Retrofire 
 0514:05  Retro-1 off 
 0515:46  Retro-2 600m 
 0517:29  Retro-2 off, 20m 
 0517:44  Vernier, 2 m 
 0517:51  Landed 0 41' S 56 18' E 
 0603  Drilling on lunar surface 


Return flight (1970-U01) 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Sep 21  0743:21 Launch of VA 
1970 Sep 24  0150  Rocket sep 
 0510:29  Reentry 
 0525  VA landed 80 km SE of Dzezkazgan

May 13,2026

  https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.855.txt