3 Things That Will Make You Feel Old as Crap - Pop Culture Edition

Let me just lay all my cards out there and tell the world that I'm 22. Not the Taylor Swift "everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22" sort of way, just the regular "oh hey, I'm old enough to not have anything cool to look forward to anymore except maybe the senior discount at Denny's" kind of way.

So I figured it might be nice to make my fellow twenty-something's as equally depressed about the whole ordeal. I present to you 3 things that will make you feel really, really old - pop culture edition.

1.  Maddie Briann Aldridge Can Read

 

This is Maddie Aldrige, the daughter of famed Jamie Lynn Spears, former nickelodeon child star and protagonist of the show Zoey 101. Maddie can read now, in fact she can probably do many real-people things, like figure out how to set a timer on a microwave.  So, there's that.

2. Michael Jackson has Been Dead for Almost Half a Decade

 

On the 25th of June it will be four years since MJ's death. Included in the nearly endless guest list was Whitney Houston, who has also been dead for almost two years.

 

 

3. Holy Shit, Frankie Muniz

 

I was a giant fan of Malcolm in the Middle, mostly because I could completely relate to being a neglected super-genius with a wheelchair confined best friend who took twenty minutes to say two sentences. Either way, cute little Malcolm went from this:

 

 

to this:



 



 

Who actually bears an uncanny resemblance to this guy:

 

 

Who now cooks meth with this guy:

 

 

So, you know, full circle there.