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# Your Afternoon Chat: What Did You Have On Your Walls As a Teenager?
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/your-afternoon-chat-what-did-you-have-on-your-walls-as-a-teenager-11-2022/
- Published: 2022-11-17T21:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-16T05:10:38.000Z
- Description: By request!
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, Your Afternoon Chat, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:20

This chat idea came directly from the comments of [our Timothee Chalamet post from the other day](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/timothee-busts-out-grandmas-pearls-in-rome-11-2022/), in which people reminisced a bit about their own teen crushes and the faces that we hung in our bedrooms. I remember being about 11 and reading Judy Blume's *Just As Long As We're Together*, in which there's a central bit about how the main character Stephanie hangs a photo of a young Richard Gere on her ceiling above the bed, but she pretends he's her boyfriend and rechristens him Benjamin Moore -- yes, after the paint company -- because she thinks it's a hotter name. (The first line of that book, in fact, is the mom saying, "Stephanie is into hunks." I LOVED that book.) I didn't have a Richard Gere equivalent. Now, if you'd handed me a poster of Stefan Edberg, Hot Swedish Tennis God, then it would have been in a place of great honor forever. Tennis players were extremely my jam. Instead, all I hung up as a high-schooler: a large Monet water lillies poster, a medium London tube map, and then a small Tate Gallery poster of part of the tube map being squeezed out of tubes of oil paint. The only celebrities that ever graced my walls were the ones I ripped out of *Smash Hits* magazine in England, when I was, oh, probably anywhere between 7 and 10, and even then -- other than George Michael, OBVIOUSLY, my one true love -- I just did it because they were free. [Hence, Limahl](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/your-daily-earworm-the-neverending-story-video-08-2020/). And Go West. Some Bros, maybe? (My sister was much cooler and had a lot of Madonna circa "Like a Virgin.")

Who was YOUR Benjamin "Richard Gere" Moore?