Aside from the free Dunkin Donuts we get every other Friday, one of the major perks of working at Rolling Stone is eating lunch with celebs. Every couple of weeks, someone famous — be it Snoop Dogg, Conan O’Brien or William Shatner — drops by our cozy boardroom to chow down and chat about whatever new project they’re working on. Depending on the guest of honor, these noontime affairs are either attended by lots of ad people and RS editors, or lots ad people and a few RS editors in search of a free sandwich. Either way, they're pretty predictable: there's always a Q&A session, polite laughter at the guests' jokes, and enough chicken-caeser wraps to go around. Yesterday's lunch was different: cameras were flashing, bodyguards were flexing, estrogen was pumping — and all the wraps got eaten. The New Kids on the Block were in the house.

The NKs — who are in their mid- to late thirties and thus not so N anymore — popped in to promote their reunion, which includes a U.S. tour kicking off tomorrow in New Jersey and a new album due out this fall. It's been fifteen years since NKOTB was on anyone's pop-culture radar, but that mattered not to the masses of screaming women in the room, who whooped, batted their eyelashes, and elbowed each other out of the way to catch a glimpse of the fivesome as they entered the room. I'm ashamed to admit that my heart, too, was a-flutter. If I hadn't been so busy fanning myself and craning my neck to see Jordan Knight, my first crush [ed. note: he hasn't changed much since 1990, when his face graced my pillowcase], I would've witnessed the fascinating phenomena of grown women completely reverting back to their adolescent selves.

When the room finally quieted down (save for periodically uttered sighs), the New Kids spoke. What they said, I couldn't tell you — some business about the reunion, probably. I was too busy staring into Jordan’s big, brown eyes.

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