"Because once you pop the fun don't stop" - Pringles slogan.

Holden Caulfield - Character from Catcher in the Rye. He was kicked out of prep school. (I'll add to it once I actually read it.)

Jamal [Wallace] - From the movie Finding Forrester. Jamal comes from the slums of his neighborhood, gets by with C grades, but his test scores come back and they're amazing. He goes to a private school (on a basketball scholarship) where he can succeed if he tries to.

Bob Vila - Hosts a home improvement show.

Tim Taylor - Clutzy character from the television series Home Improvement (played by Tim Allen), who hosted a t.v. show called "Tool Time", in which he botched every home improvement endeavor he ever made. Bob Vila guest-starred on a number of episodes.

Mars, Vulcan, Venus - The Roman names for the Greek gods/goddesses Aries, Hephaestus and Aphrodite, respectively. Their Greek names seemed ignored. Their triangle worked like this: Venus (Aphrodite) was set up by her father (Jupiter/Hercules) to marry Vulcan (Hephaestus), the smith god, who was very ugly. Venus cheated on her husband with the better-looking Mars (Aries).

As a side note, what I've read of The Fountainhead so far is amazing. I think Jess is turned away by the descriptions, while not lengthy are superfluous (to most guys), but enhance the imagery greatly. But, I think Jess is secretly turned to it by the underlying themes and messages. He's the boy in class who gets something out of the book that no one else in class does. And, since I've been doing margin notes in my book, I get to pretend that I've been in Jess' mind. Neener neener.