Reichen sure got a lot hotter since he left the  Air Force Academy.

Thanks to the boys at eDodo for posting the pic--along with some highly unflattering commentary. (Wise choice to get the ears pinned back, no disagreeing on that. But some people just need to grow up into their looks. My college photos are like kryponite to me. I'd wager Reichen looks a hell of a lot better than most '96 grads. Go easy on the guy.)

EDodo is the underground website dedicated exclusively to the Air Force Academy, by former Academy cadets, for former and current Academy cadets, banned by the Academy. (It has actually created a firewall preventing cadets from accessing the site through any Academy line. Of course they recruit incredibly smart little bastards, and rumor has it many have maneuvered their way around it.)

The eDodos were even more brutal than I expected about Reichen. You'll find the (slightly larger) picture and a more complete commentary under the "Strivers and Losers" category of its Folklore section. Nice, guys.

There are only a handful of posts on Reichen--not a word on what's gone on on The Amazing Race--but this anonymous posting is typical of what you'll find at eDodo (though it's rarely anonymous):

I knew(not in the Biblical sense) this dude at the zoo. He was known as a possible closet queen. Rumors of goings on with another dude in Raging Bull 6, Capehart. Running around the halls naked as a firstie, etc. Of all the cadets I knew definitely the "most likely to be gay."

I must admit though, someone there named Clamboy Vinyl has a pretty trenchant analysis of the yearbook comments. I bet at least one of these is dead on:

It was all foretold in his little yearbook blurb:
"Jay, thanks for taking risks with me" - indeed.

"The Kook, thanks for your energy...in [all] those different ways" - OK, who remembers someone known as 'the Kook'? Energy in 'all those different ways' so I'm thinking, doggy style, reverse cowboy, 69, lucky Pierre, and who knows what else.

"Jerry, we'll meet again someday" - probably in the Castro or the Village, I'll be wearing the cowboy hat and the cowhide thong.

"Rachel, never forget the good times" - if that isn't a 'it's not you, it's me, see, I'm gay so I'm leaving you' line, I don't know what is.


Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Enter eDodo at your own risk: they'll eat you alive.  Seriously.