Yesterday Blogger shut down The Style Rookie, a highly lauded fashion blog written by a middle schooler named Tavi, for posting a high fashion picture of a topless model. We at NYU Local were so outraged by this censorship that it inspired us to look back into the annals of our middle school Livejournals and Xangas in an attempt to remember what it was like to blog at 13. Behold, some excerpts. Please note the Comic Sans for maximum middle school effect.

On Friends
By: Luis Paez Pumar:
Current Mood: Pissed Off
04:37 pm – ok well im venting a bit
ok this may not be the nicest lj entry ever, but w/e i need to say it…
this person that ima talk about is really right now my least favorite person in the world. she is just so rude and annoyin that i rly cant stand her anymore. she is amazingly rude to me and thinks she has the right to say whatever about me…its bullshit. shes rly gross too…like i dont want to see ur underwear every day damnit get a belt or something…if a guy wants to see ur underwear, hed try and sleep with u (i heard isnt that hard with this person)…altho i wouldnt see y anyone would want to since i wouldnt touch her with a 10 foot pole (no not an analogy) so w/e i just feel like this is too rude and i felt like writin it down…

if u know who im talkin about, great…and if not, great as well i dont really give a s*1t i just felt like writing this
Ed. Note: 3 years later Luis hooked up with this girl.

On Getting Out of This Town
By: Jessica Roy
Current Mood: Pissed Off
Music: “Shoulder to the Wheel”- Saves the Day
I just about realized how much I hate my family and need to get the hell out of here. All my parents ever do is fight. All my sister ever does is whine. All I ever do is homework. This isn’t a way to live. It’s a fucking prison! And at the risk of sounding melo-dramatic… what the hell? Why is life like this? I’m sick of all the trauma and drama, but I’m sick of the normality of it all at the same time.

I need freedom. I need these next 4 years to fly by. I need college. I need drugs sex and rock and roll.

I need it all. But I probably won’t get it.

By: Nicole He
You guys know that I never cry, and we joke about it blah blah. But I’m crying right now. And it’s because of various people around me are hurt…and I dunno, that makes me fucking sad. I rarely have anything sad enough personally to make me cry for myself, but you guys’s sadness makes me sad. Talk to me.
Ed. Note: Nicole received 14 eprops for this post.

On Day-to-Day Activities
By: Caitlin Raftery
Mood: Tired….sleep is underrated
Hey! So today i wore my super cool skirt!!!! I love it and it’s sooo awesome! I bought it at an old lady shop in solvang! It kicks ass. I also wore a bunch of bracelets on my hand. I finally bought a livestrong bracelet. I’ve been really tired lately i don’t think i’ve been getting enough sleep. I thought that i liked someone but i realize that i don’t anymore. so false alarm. I had an internet party today it was great. lol..kinda. i have the bycicle song stuck in my head and it’s been stuck in my head all day! oh well, it’s a good song. i’m gonna go to sleep now. even tho it’s only 9:08, i’m really tire. g’bye!!!!

i saw starsky and hutch over the weekend LMAO it was soooo funny! if you saw it, instant message me we’ll talk about it!

By: Kenny Hsu
Current Mood: Bored
Current Music: Utsukushi Shibuya- Ozma
I got my iPod stuff, at first, it was working so I got really really mad. Then I did some stuff and it worked, it seriously takes like 1 second for every song into the pod. It is so freakin cool.

I’m really really depressed about the lakers. I love the pistons and all, but theyre just too good. ITs amazing. But I know that some kid in Africa or something hasn’t eaten in like 2 days…so I know that I can’t be that depressed about it.

On Parents
By: Vivek Nemana
So today my parents and I were sitting at the table when my dad was like, “I heard on the news that they are giving condoms in school. Is this true?! That’s encouraging underage sex.” He seemed genuinely surprised and upset. I said that it was a pretty good idea because if they do have sex then they will at least have condoms. My parents got sort of mad and told me that its wrong to have sex at such a young age and then asked me if I was having it. I couldn’t keep from smiling (which was probably a mistake) and just said no.I was going to say that I wasn’t that lucky but then again that wouldn’t have been such a good idea. So naturally my parents didn’t believe me and they went into this whole thing about how it ruins my future and all that. Before they could carry on, I stopped them and had to go into this whole explanation about how America was still pretty racially divided and how Holmdel is a pretty much white town except for the Asians, who never have sex anyways. Then I was like Indian people are stuck in the middle and the only people who do have sex, white people, would never have sex with them because thats just the way it is, so me and all the other Indian kids are all virgins.

Lastly, we leave you with a Livejournal anecdote.
By: Annie Werner
When I was in 8th grade, someone anonymously sent my LiveJournal to all the teachers and administrators in my middle school. Amidst contemplations of Simple Plan lyrics and my current state of brace-face, I had complained about teachers, staff, and school policy in my entries, and they were none too pleased. They gave me three demerits (one more and I would be off to reform school! Seriously!) and threw me in ISS to copy down discipline essays. I fought the system citing the First Amendment and won! My tween dignity was restored! Unfortunately (fortunately?), this is all that remains of my LJ. My god I was vulgar. It was named after a Dashboard Confessional lyric (not even a good one!). After the incident, I moved to DeadJournal–I figured it better fit my rebellious, emo persona. I titled it “DAYUM!” and the subtitle was “i would so hit that.” That one’s been completely wiped clean, but my interests section still exits on my account (with commentary below):

“bearing teeth when smiling, being independant, being pretty [someone was self-assured... what happened?], beingthecoolestpersoninthewholeworld, birth control [what?! 14 yr old overshare!], dashboard confessional, doing makeup in the car, ear nibbling [was I old enough for that?], everything in the world [everything!], insanely flamboyant gay men [I was destined for NYU], living in america, randomly wearing tiaras, tall skinny muscular guys.”

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