Lopez & Co. (Butterflies)

Another day, another Brazilian supermodel (Alessandra Ambrosio)...

Oh BTW, just as an aside: If you think Kelly Clarkson is fat, you're going to hell. I'm through fooling around about this. (scroll down)



The above is from a gallery of pictures by a photographer named Marcus Ranum.



I like this picture of Jennifer Lopez (right) because it looks like something from another age.



Venus Butterfly.



This halfway reminds me of what Keitha would look like in a pink skirt. And since that's never going to happen, it's as close as I'm likely to get. The photo is by Sarah Moran, BTW, I don't know the name of the model.

(The following is an unpaid commercial endorsement.)



You ladies who may occasionally be looking for a lacey little something to reward the man (or indeed, the woman) who is lucky enough to share your favors: If you want one straight male's opinion, the outfits at this little online shop are very sexy indeed. I've never shopped there, so I can't speak to reliability, service and whatnot. However: Very sexy indeed.

And in closing, just let me say:



...I'd like to play Catherine Zeta-Jones like a piano.

PS: Oh, and I almost forgot: This is from a series of nude photos taking off on a classic statue.

Fresh Life?

Two pieces of good news about Life, which as you know is my favorite new TV show of the season. For my ratings and other television news, I rely on two agenda-free sites.

First, there was this from mediaweek, about the ratings:

Worth positively noting for Life was growth out of the once promising Bionic Woman of 11 percent.

As I read that, it means rather than people who watch Bionic Woman sticking around for Life, more people are showing up for Life than for the Bionic Woman. The same article notes that Pushing Daisies is-heh-slowly dying. Thank god.




Then it was over to the futon critic where I was delighted to see that NBC-almost as if they read this blog-seems to be trying out a new day for Life.

A two-part episode of the series will kick off on Monday, December 3 at 10:00/9:00c before concluding in its regular time period on Wednesday, December 5 at 10:00/9:00c.

The former installment will have the "Heroes" "fall finale" as its lead-in.

Well I'll be damned. Now, granted, Heroes isn't what it was last year-in the ratings I mean, I've never watched the show regularly-but who among us is? However intuitively, it seems like a slightly better fit with Life than Bionic Woman (which I admit I've never watched at all).

On the other hand, I may have to either tape the last two minutes of Samantha Who? (my second fave of the new season) or the first two of Life. Thanks to those whacky two-minutes-past-the-half-hour timeslots.

But I'm in a count-my-blessings mood.

Silhouette

I mainly like Don Henley after he went solo...and even there, he lost me after "The Heart of the Matter"

Your Power Bird is an Eagle

You are spiritual and able to soar to great heights. You are a true inspiration, and many people look to you for guidance. And you are quite demanding in relationships... but you're worth it. People know that you will become even greater than you imagine.

What's Your Power Bird?

We -Are young but getting old before our time. We'll leave the T.V. and the radio behind...Don't you wonder what we'll find? Steppin out tonight!

So's my cat, what's your point?

Your Brain is Orange

Of all the brain types, yours is the quickest. You are usually thinking a mile a minute, and you could be thinking about anything at all. Your thoughts are often scattered and random - but they're also a lot of fun! You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about esoteric subjects, the meaning of life, and pop culture.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Volume 4

You Are 4: The Individualist

You are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself. You are creative and dreamy... plus dramatic and unpredictable. You're emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt. Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel. At Your Best: You are inspired, artistic, and introspective. You know what you're thinking, and you can communicate it well. At Your Worst: You are melancholy, alienated, and withdrawn. Your Fixation: Envy Your Primary Fear: To have no identity Your Primary Desire: To find yourself Other Number 4's: Alanis Morisette, Johnny Depp, J.D. Salinger, Jim Morrison, and Anne Rice.

What Number Are You?



I actually like Alanis Morisette more in movies (Dogma) than on record.

She's rockin' the green in this image, though.

Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I have 'em both the same way -

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive. Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

This is, obviously, just a very nice picture of Marilyn Monroe.

There are of course many handfuls of beautiful pictures of Monroe, but I tend to appreciate the ones in which she looks like she's thinking something other than "Don't you wish you could get into my panties?"

Not that those aren't terrific too, of course (I have to be honest...)

Vampire Venus

Because any blog can run pictures of Natasha Henstridge topless...

...we here at Dictionopolis in Digitopolis choose to take the high road and remind you of her gorgeous face. This has been, as always, a public service announcement.

self-portrait: Francesca Woodman

This is the second time that I've fallen in love with a photograph of a woman only to find out that it's associated with dying.

Woodman committed suicide in 1981.



Freaky, huh?

The Trouble with Cinderella

What disney princess are you?

Cinderella

You are Cinderella! A princess that waits her prince at the strike of 12!

So you want to see "Suburbia" covered by a couple of delicious-looking Swedish girls...

...in a video which looks as though it were directed by Ingmar Bergman.

With a great gay vibe, yet.

I know I do.

Just looking for a new direction...In an old familiar way!

There's nothing sexier than a freak chewing bubble gum.

Sometimes I think god made the '80s just to develop our sense of the ironic and to prevent us from judging by appearances

I like Spandau Ballet. I give 'em credit. But...sheesh!

I just wanted to quickly note...

...the death of playwright and novelist Ira Levin. Levin wrote the plays Deathtrap and No Time For Sargents (the latter based on a novel by Mac Hyman). His own novels include The Stepford Wives, The Boys From Brazil and Rosemary's Baby.

I'm fond of many of the films based upon his work; as you can see from the above list, Hollywood had good reason to love him. I don't think I have read many if any of his novels, though I do remember reading his plays and enjoying them, as well as the movies made.

I also note with a weird and completely inappropriate sense of pride that he was a writer who can genuinely be said to have added phrases to the English language.

If you're a writer, it doesn't get much better than that. If I say to you that a woman comes off like a Stepford Wife, you instantly know what I mean: A woman "perfect" to such an unbelivable degree that it becomes suspiscious.

Just as "Rosemary's Baby" has become code for a devil-child. BTW, the news item on his death ends with a clever and puckish quote about his feelings on that book's success:

According to the New York Times, Levin was unhappy with the legacy of popular Satanism that followed the release of "Rosemary's Baby."

"I feel guilty that 'Rosemary's Baby' led to 'The Exorcist,' 'The Omen,'" it quoted him as telling the The Los Angeles Times in 2002. "A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan.

"I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books."

"Of course," he reportedly added, "I didn't send back any of the royalty checks."

I guess nothing truly is impossible

This woman manages to make "granny panties" look good.

Cough. Cough cough, cough. Nurse-oh nurse!

Supposedly, this is Natalie Portman, who I've never really liked all that much.

Gotta love that green, though.

The J-Lo look comes to India

Venus Vega

I told you it was a theme...

Why do I care if Lindsay Lohan is happy?

Has nobody in Northville Township, MI seen Nightmare on Elm Street?

(BTW, the last paragraph here has to be one of the great sentences in news)

Police said the fire was seen Wednesday night near Hidden Ridge Drive about 20 miles northwest of Detroit in Northville Township, the Detroit Free Press reported Thursday.

The body of Daniel Gene-Vincent Sorensen, 26, of River Rouge, was found about 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the end of the cul-de-sac by a township sewer and water department crew, according to the Free Press and The Detroit News.

He was identified by the Michigan State Police through a fingerprint taken from his burned hand. The print also revealed Sorensen had been a registered sex offender in Illinois.

Sorensen's head has not been found and a cause of death has not been released.

Somewhere, my teachers are laughing

Random Flickr Blogging 3688: BONUS

[answering phone] Hello? Oh, Honey, hello! I can't remember
the last time you called me from wor-- oh. You want to speak
to my breasts. [sigh.] All right, one moment...

(I swiped this image from George)

Is 22 year old Brazilian supermodel Jeisa Chiminazzo wearing enough green in this picture to qualify for my little theme?

Do I care?

Penelope Cruz has green blossoms on her breasts

But didn't you always kind of suspect that, really?

Best hide-and-go-seek game EVER.

Ms. Swain's natural sciences course was the most popular in the school.

Hot Venus cool...or, cool Venus hot, your choice...and yes, it's a theme

Oh, happy day

Cate Edwards, daughter of John and the future first babe of the United States of America, is hitting the campaign trail for her father.

I have had the major hots (bordering on obsession) for Ms. Edwards ever since the '04 campaign.

And as if that weren't enough...

Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are more popular among younger voters than John Edwards, according to several polls. Cate Edwards thinks that's a product of how her father is perceived — something she sought to fight by sharing stories about her family, from their political discussions over dinner to how she and her mother, Elizabeth, disagree with his opposition to gay marriage.

Emphasis mine. Swoon...

Random Flickr Blogging 3688

"For god's sake, help me! Code: Roasted Black Pepper Duck! Code: Roasted Black Pepper Duck!"

Source


His parents denied it.

Source


As they so often did, Kim's party had devolved into a competition about cock size.

Source

Random Flickr Blogging 3688: Words & Image

All of our love
and all of our pain
Will be but a tune
The sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hand in hand, we’ll do and die
Listening to the band that made us cry
We’ll have nothing to lose
We’ll have nothing to gain
Just to stay in this real life situation
For one last refrain...

-Tears For Fears

Photo credit

Just when I thought I couldn't think anything more bad about George Lucas

I rented the DVD of the Return Of The Jedi: Special Edition last week, and yesterday I watched it with the commentary from Lucas and others. I don't think I'd ever realized before just how much of Jedi is filler.

But, I've more-or-less made my peace with the idea that the Star Wars films are profoundly silly, so that's not what bothered me. What bothered me was, at the beginning of the commentary, Lucas introduces himself as executive producer and writer of the film.

What name never crosses his lips throughout the commentary? Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the screenplay for Jedi (as well as The Empire Strikes Back). Kasdan, to my mind, is one of the great unsung heroes of The Force. He performed for Lucas the much-needed service of giving his characters A) hearts; B) dialogue that sounds as though humans could speak it.

But I guess that doesn't fit in with the writ of George Lucas: Mythmaker, does it?

I can't believe it took me this long to figure this out

Right, is the exquisite goddess/singer Kirsty MacColl (bless her).

Below, is the great Emily Easterly.



All together now: Ohhh!

"The dead girls never care, They never were that way" (or, Some sort of a visual poem)

Venus in leather hot pants