My favorite color can't take much more of this

Here, Monica Bellucci makes it go all weak in the knees,





while Symba Smith just gives it amnesia.

Be well, Roger

Critic Roger Ebert underwent yet another surgery today, per this new item. As you know if you've been reading this blog for any period of time, I'm a great admirer of his thoughtful, thought-provoking, and funny reviews and commentary.



I wish him much luck in his continued recovery.

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white



Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk



Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font



The fire-fly wakens; waken thou with me



Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost



And like a ghost she glimmers on to me

Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars





And all thy heart lies open unto me

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves



A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me





Now folds the lilly all her sweetness up
And slips into the bosom of the lake



So fold thyself, my dearest, thou and slip





Into my bosom and be lost in me.

(Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.)

Mariah Carey has interesting ideas about keeping warm during a rainstorm

Group photo

Holly Marie Combs stuns my favorite color into silence. Meanwhile, I go insane trying to choose between looking at Alyssa Milano's breasts or Rose McGowan's...

Des Penny-photos

Sometimes I worry that my desire to have sex with Angelina Jolie makes me common.

When did this happen? Zooey Deschanel. From here...



...to here:



Charlize Theron, rehearsing for her role as the Frankenstein monster.



Lindsay Lohan. Making Miss Piggy look nice and lucid.



Christina Ricci has a question for all of you.

Have you looked between her legs recently?



I don't quite know who this is. But, dear god...

(Her name is Anneliese van der Pol, and apparently she's an actress and singer, though one I'd never heard of or seen before. I see from Wikipedia that most of her credits are on The Disney Channel or like-projects, which would explain it.)



(I actually think her face is so beautiful that she doesn't really need to be doing the look-at-the-swell-of-my-boob thing, but you won't hear me complaining, exactly.

I just looked up a video of her singing "Candle On The Water" from Pete's Dragon, though, and it's ugly what she does to that song...)

From the most insanely fuckable version of Fiddler On The Roof ever!

And finally: Eliza Dushku knows something you don't know...

Can I just say, I'm sick of people who have more money than Asia and still can't pull their lives together?

Case in point.

Because of one or two pieces of bad news I received this evening, I am less willing than usual to mind my own business where Britney Spears is concerned, something I usually try to do, believe it or not. But I'm sick of it.

Everyone I know's lives would be so much better (with maybe one or two exceptions) if they only had a little more money. Not even a lot, necessarily, but some. And I am just sick unto death of reading about people who by any standard have had all their dreams come true and don't know how to Step Up.

So many people are going to live and die without ever being given That Chance. And for people who have had good fortune smile on them to turn around and kick it in the teeth...

Well I'm just sick of it, that's all.

feminine policeman

I have no idea who this is, I just stumbled on the picture which was accompanying this poem, which I have translated from the Portuguese via AltaVista Babel Fish. I like it.

In the principle I age the Eva
Created for the happiness of Adam
Later I was Maria
Giving to the light that one
That it would bring the salvation
But this would not be enough
I to find pardon.
I started to be Amélia
The truth woman
For the society
She did not have the lesser vanity
But she dreamed of the equality.
Much time later I decided:
It does not give more!
I want my dignity
I have my ideals!
Today I am not alone wife or son
I am father, mother, support of family
I am truck driver, taxista,
Pilot of airplane, feminine policeman,
Laborer in construction...
To the world I ask for license
To act where to want
My last name is ABILITY
E my name is WOMAN!

the Author, near as I can tell, is someone called desconhecido.

I want you all to make me a promise, my vast reading audience

If my love for the color green ever extends, in any way, to affection for something like this, I want you to promise me you'll have me put away for my own safety.

Jokes that seem funny after two o'clock in the morning

E! News Headline:

Charlie Can't Touch Denise's Reality

Is that what they're calling it now...

A message from The Center of No Shit, Sherlock

Study: False Statements Preceded War

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."

The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

1. I think most of America has known that for oh, well over a year, but it's nice that there's data available.

2. Can. We. Impeach. Them. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooow?

Was there ever really any doubt?

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

My pal Corey Klemow hipped me to the fact that the just-nominated-for-an-Oscar cartoon retelling of Peter & the Wolf can be viewed via Cartoon Brew. It's in three parts and will take about half an hour, but it's way-cool. If you don't believe me, watch the first 10 minutes:



And that's just the first part. It gets better with each, IMO.

Bet 'yer ass, sister

I'm Vintage Madonna, who are you? Madonna Quiz by Turi.

I miss the '80s...

You're as shocked as I am, I can tell

It turns out, Americans are actually much hipper than news organizations like CNN.

A brief observation

There's nothing like doing a random image search, finding a picture you like and only glancing at the page it's on before starting to post it...and then looking again and realizing it's on a "white pride" Conservative web page.

Happy Martin Luther King Day, everyone!

Jewel Staite is hotter than "Firefly" (and surrounded by my favorite color)

This is a song called "Boys Don't Cry," originally by a singer named Plumb.

I found her picture on a random image search for my other blog, and thought she had darned near perfect eyes, especially in close-up. I'd never heard any of her songs, however, so I looked up a couple. Apparently she falls into the genre of Christian Rock, but I refuse to hold that against her.

This cover is another in my regular feature of acoustics done by an amateur girl or two. The singer is a farm girl in Michigan; she's 15, and the guitarist her "BFF."



I think it's actually better than the original, which doesn't seem to have done much when it was released three or four years ago. As a song, I like but don't love it; one lyric in particular seems to just lie there (it's the one that starts "But you're okay with this...").

Have I mentioned that Mandy Moore has set her cap for me?

As if more proof were needed, here she not only wears my favorite color (again), but in the pull-quote she's singing its praises.

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I've got nothing to say about this...I just think it's lovely.

Credit.

This will probably only interest you if you love the great electronic pop artists as much as I do

It's an excellent Pet Shop Boys/Human League "mash up" made by a producer/DJ called Matt Pop. Unfortunately there are no graphics, but it ends up sounding a lot like OMD...

Must...not...make...cream joke...must not...

Fair's fair-whoever Demi Moore's plastic surgeon is, he or she is doing good work

Holy-!

So you want to see Miley Cyrus in a tub with two other girls.

Hey, I'm not here to judge.

Good and right-on poster for a (reportedly) ludicrous and distasteful movie

Winning smiles

A group of "cosmetic dental professionals" were polled to determine the celebrities with the best smile, and have released the top three vote getters in each sex. Eva Mendes, Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson received the most votes in the women's category, with Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Will Smith taking the crowns (get it?) among men.

Well, I have no problem with the women, especially the first two, though I admit I've never fully understood the appeal of Hudson. And I'm comfortable enough as a man to be able to say that Pitt, Beckham and Smith ain't bad-looking mugs.

But. If I were gonna make a few suggestions of some smiles they forgot, I might start with the self same Miss Benson you see pictured in the post below. Or her onetime fellow cast member in The Crush, Alicia Silverstone.




Or Anna Friel has an adorable smile, though it's not enough for me not to wish her series dead.



And what's not to love about Charlize Theron's smile?



Or Jennifer Love Hewitt. For all the talk about the hotness of her girl-body--and this blog has certainly been as guilty of that as any--I'm suddenly thinking that even as that falls away (as it were) she's still going to be easy on the eyes.

Diana Rigg had one of the great smiles of the '60s...



...and she's leaving it to her daughter, Rachael Stirling.





Or tennis hottie Maria Sharapova.



And um, well, Julia Ormond. Have you ever seen a more kissable mouth in your life?