But by the morning after, bygones were bygones.
Most of my early interviews were with the legends of that bygone era: Wu-Tang after their first album, Big Pun after his first single, Fat Joe, Boot Camp, EPMD, and way too many more to list.
"Let bygones be bygones," Dreier joked.
"Let bygones be bygones," he said.
Soon after, fate intervened in the form of bygone techniques, robotic bartending, and gainful wordplay.
But the most significant losses lamented on "American Dream" aren't about a bygone hipness or the diminishing power of morning-after vitality.
The comedian Bill Maher was the textbook case for the bygone era of the 100-channel universe, after ABC bought his hit show, "Politically Incorrect," away from Comedy Central.
Indeed, the convention seemed to take a page from Writers Boot Camp, a how-to sensation founded in a bygone decade, though these young hopefuls were after much more than a two-movie deal.
So, in a strange way, the kibbutz, like some bygone stars, still provides us with light long after it's been extinguished".
A couple of hours in the beer tent after a Pirates game will take them back to a bygone era – and it may even win them a few new friends and supporters.
