Okay, that's it. Lance is officially the cutest thing ever. BTW -- nice sunburn.
And, so I don't get sued, here is the link to the picture.

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Woo, like 13 seconds of Lance. I'm so glad I taped two hours of music I don't keep up with and artists I don't recognize to see it.
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Yeah, I've got some things to say about this appearance:

Truly, there are no words for how I feel about this man.

First, please go here for possibly the cutest Chris picture you will ever see.

Second, I got this from the *N the Mix messageboard, with credit to JCs Angel from the JJB.

http://nytimes.com/upfront

By MARIE MORREALE

Pop sensation 'N Sync broke sales records earlier this year with No Strings Attached, which sold 2.4 million copies in its first week in the stores. For one member of the quintet, Chris Kirkpatrick, 29, success is particularly sweet. Raised by a single mom who at times worked three jobs, Kirkpatrick and his four sisters grew up in and out of poverty. His background may explain why he's not the kind of star that blows millions on fancy cars and houses. And it explains, as he tells UPFRONT, why he's not afraid to fail. "If this all ends," he says, "I have no problem with going back and getting a regular job again."

UPFRONT: When you were a kid, there was a time that your family was homeless and really poor.

KIRKPATRICK: Right.

UPFRONT: What do you mean by homeless? Did you have to live in a car?

KIRKPATRICK: We lived in a Suburban actually.

UPFRONT: Where did you wash up and sleep and eat?

KIRKPATRICK: Well, we had some friends and we'd go over to their house.

UPFRONT: Was there ever a situation when your family went without food?

KIRKPATRICK: We went a lot without food. That was almost an everyday thing. All the money we had would go to bills and stuff like that, so the food part kind of got pushed back. I remember my mom never bought anything for herself--it was all toward the family.

UPFRONT: Where did you live when you were growing up?

KIRKPATRICK: We moved around a lot--mostly western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.

UPFRONT: How old were you when your dad left the family?

KIRKPATRICK: A little over a year.

UPFRONT: Did you keep in touch with him?

KIRKPATRICK: I didn't really get back in touch with him until high school.

UPFRONT: Do you have a relationship with him now?

KIRKPATRICK: Not really.

UPFRONT: When did you understand that your family was hurting economically?

KIRKPATRICK: I think that nobody really notices in elementary school. That's not what's on their mind. It wasn't until junior high that I started realizing.

UPFRONT: What feelings did you have?

KIRKPATRICK: My first feeling was: I needed to get a job.

UPFRONT: At what age?

KIRKPATRICK: I started working on a farm when I was about 13. I helped with the garden. I helped with the sheep.

UPFRONT: Do you still like to do farm kind of stuff?

KIRKPATRICK: No, not at all.

UPFRONT: When you were in junior high, did you feel different from the other kids, did they treat you differently?

KIRKPATRICK: I don't think they treated me differently, but I did feel different. It was just hard because everyone else was talking about, "Oh yeah, we'll call you," or "We'll drive over there." But we didn't have a phone, we didn't have a car.

UPFRONT: Your sisters are younger than you, right?

KIRKPATRICK: Yes.

UPFRONT: You must have felt a responsibility for them.

KIRKPATRICK: Oh yeah, big time. I started working at a grocery store when I was 16, and then all the checks that came in went to the family.

UPFRONT: Did you find time for any other normal teen kind of stuff?

KIRKPATRICK: Yeah, I found a little bit of time. It was really kind of difficult because sometimes I'd have to go to the grocery store to load before school, at like 5:00, 4:00 in the morning and then get to school about 8:00. I ended up getting really bad grades in high school. I never did my homework; I never did a lot of that stuff I should have done because I'd be working. And if I wasn't working I wanted to have a little bit of that time to play.

UPFRONT: At what point did things start turning around for your family?

KIRKPATRICK: Probably when I moved to Orlando, when I graduated high school.

UPFRONT: In this situation, so many kids would leave high school. What made you stay?

KIRKPATRICK: I had a lot of long-term goals, and one of them was to be the first one in my family to go to college and graduate. I actually graduated with a two-year associate's degree in art. I was getting my bachelor's in psychology before the group happened. We were definitely a family that didn't like to sit around. We worked. So I had to go to high school to get to college, and I had to go to college to get the job that I wanted.

UPFRONT: When you got into 'N Sync, before it really took off, did you have a backup plan?

KIRKPATRICK: There was a time when I actually had three jobs and full-time school, and that was just ridiculous. So I settled down to two jobs, and I quit school for a little while. When 'N Sync started out I was still singing at Universal Studios and working a nighttime job as a server. I started putting a little money away to make sure that I could go back to school.

UPFRONT: Have you had any time to finish school?

KIRKPATRICK: I really haven't had time. We've been on the road constantly. The only way I could do it would be correspondence classes.

UPFRONT: When 'N Sync really clicked and it was obvious that you were going to make money, that was such a change. How did you handle that? Was there a point that you went crazy and bought everything that you saw?

KIRKPATRICK: It was strange. It's something where I have as much money as I need for a comfortable living. It's not that I have houses in every city. It's not that the house I call my home is 10 bedrooms, huge, over a million dollar home. I have financial advisers. I say "Look, you go out and you put this money away for me. Someday down the road I might need to live on it." But even the financial advisers, they don't understand. They say, "If this all ends, you'll have no income." I try to explain to them that I have no problem with going back and getting a regular job again. I can work 9 to 5 and have the evenings to do my writing or producing. I'm not afraid of work.